The Brew SiteBack on the 3rd (it’s the 14th already? Where’s this month going?), I met with Jason Randles, one of the marketing gurus I’ve been corresponding with at Deschutes Brewery, and got an "insider’s tour" of the brewery. We also talked a bit about blogging, beer, other breweries, and this whole … Continue reading
Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot is of the Old Guard and an American classic. This 2008 edition of this barleywine (billed the "25th Expedition"—their 25th year!) is 9.6% alcohol by volume and absolutely maintains its status as one of the best American barleywines around. Appearance: Beautiful clear orange-amber color; nice, thick, dense, … Continue reading
Turbodog is one of the flagship beer from Abita Brewing, which is near New Orleans—"nestled in the piney woods 30 miles north" in fact. This is my first Abita beer, even though I’ve occasionally seen their Purple Haze available locally. I’ve been aware of Abita for awhile, and finally picked … Continue reading
Lion Stout is from The Lion Brewery in Sri Lanka, and was one of my Beer of the Month Club selections. It’s a classic Foreign/Export style Stout, with a nice kick at 8% alcohol—but smooth enough so you don’t notice. Appearance: Opaque dark brown, nearly black—no light is getting through … Continue reading
Today’s the day—New Beer’s Eve, Legal Beer Day, however you’d like to call it—when Congress modified the Volstead Act to allow 3.2% alcohol beer legal as a precursor to the full Repeal of Prohibition later in the year. Shortly before the beer began pouring at 12:01 a.m. on the morning … Continue reading
The eve of Legal Beer Day! Or 3.2 Day…or New Beer’s Eve as Bob notes in this comment. (I kind of like "Legal Beer Day" for the 7th, and maybe "New Beer’s Eve" for the 6th…) Anyway, some more tidbits I kind of like from the Anheuser-Busch stuff. First, I … Continue reading
It’s the first Friday in April, meaning that across the interwebs, beer bloggers are all writing about a common theme: yes, it’s The Session. This month’s topic comes to us from Stonch, across the pond in England: Beer People. Enjoying beer is as much about people as it is malt … Continue reading
Going through the press kit that Anheuser-Busch sent me for their "Beer is Back" campaign, I find the products that A-B produced during the Prohibition years fascinating. The main reference I have for these from the kit is imagery; what follows are some examples. Along with non-alcohol Budweiser (think "near … Continue reading
Right before we left for a few days last week (during Spring Break), I received a box from Flying Dog Brewery. Can you guess what it contained (besides from the title to this post, or, er, the picture to the right)? You can if you read other beer bloggers—for instance, … Continue reading
April 7th is the anniversary of the modification of the Volstead Act, where beer was made legal again after 14 long years of National Prohibition. Well, legal up to a point: up to 3.2% alcohol by weight, to be exact. (That’s 4% by volume.) Not only that, but this year … Continue reading