Breaking out of American Macro Week for a moment because this strikes me as very interesting: the RateBeer Best 2008 is out. I’m a sucker for "Top X" lists as I’ve mentioned before, so this is a no-brainer. In regards to my admittedly slightly-incendiary title, look at their "The Top … Continue reading

Some random notes and observations this week that didn’t warrant their own post. – Deschutes‘ official press release that was included with the bottle of The Abyss they sent me also mentions two other Reserve Series beers that will come out this year: The Dissident and an Imperial Black Butte … Continue reading

Today was the day that The Abyss, Deschutes Brewery‘s much-coveted award-winning Imperial Stout, was officially released. It was originally announced for release in early December, but got pushed back—due largely (as I understand it) to the sheer amount of effort it took to bottle the beer and then to hand-dip … Continue reading

Time for some predictions for 2008 in beer. Nothing really "out there" here, except for maybe the Dogfish Head prediction. I think that’s going to end up being a Brew Site Annual Tradition. 1) The hop shortage is going to get worse and get more mainstream coverage. It’s not going … Continue reading

I only started following Pete Brown’s blog fairly recently (about when he was leaving for his IPA sea adventure), but he has a great post today: The point is, there’s an attitude in beer appreciation that’s the same as the one I used to have when I was a teenage … Continue reading

Over the weekend I got a couple of contact form submissions, two guys with links to share. First is from Jason Mosley, who writes: I just did my first beer review you can read it here, http://www.mrbaconpants.com/yuengling-traditional-lager/ It would be great if you could give me a plug on your … Continue reading

Well, the old year is over and the New Year has begun and it’s time to review my predictions for 2007 that I made last January. To recap, they were: Continued "extreme beer" growth Dogfish Head brews another historic beer Anheuser-Busch continuing to go after the craft brewing segment Beer … Continue reading

Now that Christmas is over and the Advent Calendar feature is done for another year, I can catch a breath and catch up on my "regular" blogging! I have some 13 reviews to write up—with more coming as I have a bunch of new beers to drink and review—particularly some … Continue reading

I have more details from Anheuser-Busch to follow-up my post yesterday about their Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale and the Bare Knuckle Stout Mix-It-Up program. First, on the subject of the Winter’s Bourbon, I had sent in several questions (via email) as a sort of mini-interview. Here it is (forwarded to/from … Continue reading

I received this in email from the folks at Anheuser-Busch: Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale is back for the third year and will be available next week! A fact sheet including the taste profile, ingredients, serving suggestions and food parings, is attached along with images. For a new twist on this … Continue reading