Tonight’s test beer is the Hefeweizen by Widmer Brothers. Say it with me — Not My Usual Dark Brew. Poured, this beer looks a nice deep gold, with medium white head. The beer seems a bit “cloudy” — it looks thick. Smells very much like a beer — somewhat hoppy. And oh the taste. It’s not as bitter as an… Read more »
I am not Catholic, nor have I ever been. This year, however, I think I’m going to give some stuff up for Lent. I’ve done this before: Last year I gave up sweets entirely (as opposed to my usual only-on-S-days attempts to follow the No S Diet). This year, I think I’m going to give up junk food in general…… Read more »
Matt Forney is officially my most favorite blogger other than myself: He’s now reviewed the White Dames.
This one is interesting right off the bat: A gluten free beer. So how does sorghum work as a replacement? Well, it doesn’t look much different from a normal beer. A golden brown, which is something of a trend with these reviews. The head, of which there wasn’t as much as some of the others, is a deep yellow. It… Read more »
This beer ended up in my collection of mix and match because it had a pumpkin on it and it was the last of its kind (being a seasonal, I am not surprised). So how does the O’Fallon Pumpkin Beer match up to the rest of the week? Pouring this beer made it apparent it was the darkest so far…. Read more »
On Saturday I happened to have my first Blue Moon beer — it was their regular Belgian White, and it was quite delicious for a pale ale. Again, Not My Usual Dark Beer(tm), but still good and certainly better than a (Insert Cheap Big Name Beer) Lite. Today’s selection from the choose your own adventure six pack I got was… Read more »
I used to have a category on one of my old sites I called BAFTA — Bendy, Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and something else with an “A”. Maybe it was assholism. Anyway, I think I’m bringing that back. (Bendy, for the unaware, is my nickname for my wife. Guess why.) I think I’m going to go back to my old sub-title,… Read more »
Perhaps my first real experience with this phenomena came as a young teenager who was into video games and fantasy. This immediately surrounded me with other people of the same ilk, and a healthy majority of those people don’t know anything about sports. And they’re really impressed with themselves because of it. I bought into it for a while, too,… Read more »
Abita is a local(ish) brewery down here, and they’ve got some pretty decent beers. They also make a fairly decent root beer. Today’s selection to go with dinner was their Andygator. The beer pretty much lives up to the description at their site. It’s a darker gold color than the Beck’s I described yesterday, in color. It didn’t produce as… Read more »
Usually, I’m a fan of dark beers. Beers as dark as my black conservative heart. That’s just how I roll. Saturday night we had occasion to stop off at a bar and they had a near-coffee flavored drink. I had my fill of it — it was wondrous. One of the local supermarkets has a few loose beers on a… Read more »