Today is Poor Richard’s Ale Day—the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin and the day most participatory breweries are serving up their version of Poor Richard’s Ale. Has anyone been able to try this beer yet? I’d like to get a chance to try both Bend Brewing Company‘s … Continue reading

Chris (another local blogger) tags me pretty good. Too funny, I got a good laugh out of that. Plus, a bonus: it’s a good review of Old English 800! Gotta love Sundays. 🙂

You’ve noticed that I’ve been reviewing more beers lately. I’ll be doing a lot more of that over the coming weeks and months; part of what I’ve done with some of my Christmas and birthday money this year was buy a bunch of beer that I haven’t had before, and … Continue reading

Wow, talk about a strong beer: tonight I had the bottle of Rogue’s Imperial India Pale Ale that I got for Christmas. It comes in a 1 pint, 10 ounce (750 ml) black ceramic bottle (similar to the Imperial Pilsner that I also had), and weighs in at a staggering … Continue reading

Tonight I tried a new beer I picked up, Demolition from Goose Island in Chicago. It was quite good! Classified as a Belgian strong (pale) ale, it weighs in at 8% alcohol by volume. Here are my notes: Appearance: Hazy gold-orange in color. Poured with a ¼-inch head that was … Continue reading

Something I found yesterday but forgot to post about. The guys behind BeerMapping.com that I posted about also have a beer feed aggregator. They’re pulling the RSS feeds of beer blogs and sites and aggregating them on the page. Nice. I think I already have all the same sites/feeds loaded … Continue reading

Just chalk this up to random humor: Slashfood reports on a guy who experimented with adding Skittles to beer. The one, the only, the original, Skittlebrau. I personally am not a big dark beer fan. But the Crazy Engineer household would be remiss if we didn’t try the actual Skittlebrau. … Continue reading

A few months back I’d blogged about Anheuser-Busch brewing a seasonal pumpkin ale. Now they have a winter offering, too: Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale. Yes, that link is to their press release, and yes, it’s been out since December somtime, but one of their PR people sent me the link … Continue reading

I mentioned a "geeky homebrewer point of view" yesterday, and was interested when this article appeared today elsewhere: Understanding the beer geek. It’s an okay article, nothing too earth-shattering or meaningful, though. Although this one quote sounds to me like obsessive Star Trek fans arguing whether they’re referred to as … Continue reading

Over on Slashfood today a couple of beer posts caught my eye. The first, Beer: it’s a diet food, right?, speculates on beer health marketing in light of a recent FDA announcement: According to a recent FDA announcement, "whole grain barley and barley-containing products are allowed to claim that they … Continue reading