One of the best things about living in San Diego during college, was the amazing proliferation of cheap Mexican beer. You know the stuff … watery, tangy when it shouldn’t be, its only saving grace being the large quantity of lime slices around. I mean you could drink a dozen of those before you realized [...]
I’m not one to disparage hard working craft brewers (hahaha…ok), but I think we may have found a new contender for the worst beer I’ve ever tried. I want to give Sam, the boss of Dogfish Head, the benefit of the doubt, because I find his such an entertaining guy. Unfortunately, this stuff was way [...]
I love Lompoc Brewery. But even those we love disappoint us once in a while. Heaven’s Helles tastes as close to college Coors Light days as I ever want to get. Not. A. Fan. When Lompoc comes a calling, stick to the LSD.
Before I begin, an appeal: Brewers of the world, can you please, please, stop putting watermelon in beer. It just doesn’t belong. Like Jar Jar in a Star Wars movie (geez I’m a nerd), you are just going to go and ruin a good thing. I have now “officially” reviewed 3 watermelon beers, and they [...]
In a move that has the stockholders in a tizzy, I’ve managed in this review to combine my heretofore unrelated themes of Nasty Malt Liquors and Imported Oddities. Today, we consider a product of the Polish brewery Okocim, a brew they named “Mocne”, which I presume is Polish for “Malt Liquor” and not some [...]
Insert Jelly Bean into Beer. Stir. There you go. I just gave you the recipe for Laughing Buddha Mango Weizen. Wanna talk sweet? Holy cow. This beer is funny in that it didn’t actually taste bad per se. It was just that it was so overpoweringly sweet and… semi-fruity that I just couldn’t drink. The [...]
Fruity beers can go one of two ways. An awesome brew of fruity flavor, ala Stumptown Tart, or a nasty, syrup tinged nightmare like Lost Coast Raspberry Brown. I mean this stuff is terrible. What would possess them to make something that tastes like Raspberry Syrup poured into Brown Ale is beyond me. I assume [...]
I’m not going to spend too much effort on this, other to say that the 2006 version of Jubelale was nasty. 2007 was gross as well. In this regard, the 2008 version does not disappoint. Just as cheek smashy, just as odd tasting, just as quickly down the sink. This year, even the wrapper was [...]
Whoops! I’m a little late with my posts — didn’t realize how long it had been since my last Malt Liquor update (must be down to just a handful of brain cells left). I’ve also exhausted all the Malt Liquors at my local brew pit, so I’ve had a harder time getting new dreck to [...]
“Who is more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?” -Benjamin Kenobi Juan de la Cueva may have been a loon. For some reason in 1575 he wrote about some dish that combined Jalapenos and ale. Crazy? Maybe. But the real fools in this instance are the guys at Rogue Brewery who decided [...]