I really like the Nelson hop that Widmer uses in its Nelson IPA, so when I heard that they were using the same hop in their rotator IPA, I was excited to buy. Ha, jokes on me! Even though they both advertise the Nelson hop as the main selling point, this IPA tastes nothing like [...]
Funny enough, it turns out that drinking beer and writing well thought out blog posts don’t seem to go hand in hand. Looking back into my wobbly drunken photo archive, it turns out that I have quite a collection of brews I’ve never written anything about. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your perspective), now that [...]
We interupt this regularly scheduled Dick’s fest to bring to your attention something that local boys Widmer recently brewed up. Its called Prickly Pear Braggot, and you really need to try it. Its not beer in the strictest sense (Ill leave it up to you to lookup what a braggot is). And really, I have [...]
An hour or so ago, I made a Twitter entry that proclaimed my intention to drink this, given that I had nothing else in the fridge. “In the land of the thirsty, the one starred beer is king” it proclaimed. Well, it turns out that the land of the thirsty is a lawless place. Not [...]
To Widmer’s credit, this beer tastes exactly as described. A picture perfect Belgian Ale. It even made the immediate area smeel like Belgian beer. Is it good? If you like Belgians, then yeah. Widmer and I have have a had a rocky past, but I will give them credit for this. It’s probably too specific [...]
Widmer and I go way back. It began innocently enough with Hefeweizen. Pretty ubiquitous around the west coast, it taught me many years ago that there was beer that was actually good. Drop Top was decent for parties, and then came Snow Plow. When I first moved up to Beervana, I wish just giddy for [...]
You know those moments where you remember something so fondly from when you were a kid,. You remember how amazing this one experience was. Then you try it later as an adult and find out it was lame, boring or horribly nasty (hello Nesquik “Strawberry” Milk). Sadly, this is exactly what Widmer Snow Plow did [...]