The Brew SiteIn my ramblings about pumpkin beer last month, I wrote: I think it would be fun to do a pumpkin beer tasting; gather as many pumpkin ales as you can find (homebrewed included!), draw up some rating sheets, and go to town. And a bunch of blogs have seemingly taken … Continue reading
This review is a little late for this year’s Oktoberfest, but I did drink the beer during same: Paulaner Oktoberfest Märzen. Yum! Outside of Munich, this is the Oktoberfest beer by which all others are judged. Or so some people would tell you. (I’m one of them.) That’s not to … Continue reading
Ah, Widmer Hefeweizen, the quintessential Northwest craft beer… You know, Widmer’s Hefe often gets a bad rap among beer snobs for not being a "proper" hefeweizen of the Bavarian style. Even its BeerAdvocate score isn’t very good compared to other microbrews: it only scores 78 and has a dismal 66% … Continue reading
Recently I’ve run across a few more links to beer events, and I figured I’d dump them here for everybody to share. There’s BeerAdvocate’s events calendar, of course. The Beer Festival Calendar appears to be fairly comprehensive. Realbeer.com has a big one, too. All About Beer has theirs online. PubCrawler … Continue reading
Yesterday I received a large package from the PR firm Edelman, the occasion being Widmer‘s rollout of their new packaging for their flagship Hefeweizen. I have to say, though, that I was just as impressed with the press kit package as anything; so I’m commenting on both. The Press Kit … Continue reading
The 2006 winners of the Great American Beer Festival were picked and announced Saturday, and Oregon breweries, along with California, Colorado, and Wisconsin, cleaned up. The Belmont Station blog handily posted just the Oregon winners in the various categories (saving me the trouble of weeding them out!). Here’s a quick … Continue reading
I had to dump my batch of pumpkin ale that I brewed up last month. It had been sitting in the secondary fermenter for about two weeks, and I was going to bottle it today. When I got the carboy of beer out of the pantry, it was all too … Continue reading
Yeah, I know I’m a little late running this Press Release, but the GABF is still going on today, so I figured, why not? If you’re at the GABF, then check out the Oregon brewers. The 25th Anniversary of the Great American Beer Festival will be September 28th through September … Continue reading
Good grief, when I mentioned that the Lyke 2 Drink blog would be (sort of) live blogging the Great American Beer Festival, I figured he’d file a blog entry or two for each day… but in reality, he wrote 11 posts yesterday! He’s a machine! Two I’ll hightlight are the … Continue reading
As promised, some more substance to this Oktoberfest thing. We’re smack in the middle of Oktoberfest right now; it runs from September 16th through October 3rd this year. This seems to be a source of confusion for people, since the name "Oktoberfest" seems like it should, naturally, fall entirely in … Continue reading