Details magazine has an article on "The World’s Best Beers." Yawn. 🙂 Actually, it’s an amusing read… they have some serious "categories" like Best Beer in a Can (Dick’s Pale Ale) and Best Beer Web Site (BeerAdvocate.com), and then some goofy ones: Best Beer to Drink Quickly (Miller Lite, if … Continue reading

From Slashfood comes this pointer to this piece of art/design concept: the Beertable. Weird. The main problem that I see is that there’s no cooling unit for the beer bottle holders. But for those beer geeks (like me) who prefer to drink beer from a glass rather than the bottle … Continue reading

I keep running across the name of the Great Divide Brewing Company in reading about beer, and it’s always something good; they seem to be producing very good beers and making a buzz. Recently I had their Wild Raspberry Ale (my wife found it downtown), and while I’m often skeptical … Continue reading

I got so tied up attending and writing about the Oregon Brewers Festival that I’m behind on posting my beer reviews. No matter. Tonight it’s Deschutes Brewery‘s 18th Anniversary Pilsner. This is one of their 22-ounce seasonals (the Bond Street Series), and weighs in at 5% alcohol by volume. Appearance: … Continue reading

Just a quick note on a couple of beers we picked up from Trader Joe’s while in the Portland area last week: Mission Street Pale Ale and Black Toad Dark Ale. Both were the cheap beers: $4.99 for a six-pack, and they’re good enough to make that a good deal. … Continue reading

You know how a lot of beer commercials like to tout their "mountain spring water" or somesuch in their brewing process? They’ve really got nothing on these guys: A brewery in Greenland is producing beer using water melted from the ice cap of the vast Arctic island. The brewers claim … Continue reading

The other beer I got from the Roslyn Brewing Company was Roslyn Beer, a dark lager that complements the pale lager I reviewed previously. The Roslyn website indicates that they use "four types of malted barley and three hop varieties" in this beer. I’m not sure I totally buy into … Continue reading

This is one of those stories I like to call "the definition of irony": Beer company executive, chief commercial pitcher and former Senate candidate Pete Coors confirmed Thursday he was cited in May for driving under the influence of alcohol after leaving a friend’s wedding celebration. "I made a mistake," … Continue reading

A little while back a coworker was passing through Roslyn, Washington and happened upon the Roslyn Brewing Company, and was kind enough to bring me back a bottle each of their two beers, Brookside Beer and Roslyn Beer. Brookside (the first I’ve drank so far) is a pale lager in … Continue reading

Shannon has a couple of pointers to online sources for beer: John’s Grocery and Internet Wines and Spirits. She’s jonesing for her Boulevard Wheat and is looking for a source. The problem? Exorbitant shipping prices. So, anyone know of decent sources for beer online, that don’t charge outrageously for shipping? … Continue reading