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 »
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 »
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 »
Bah. What to do? I’ve been doing this (on and off) for as long as I can remember. It’s been over a decade and a half since some asshole introduced me to the joys of HTML; I’ve had a blogger site, a livejournal (before there was an alternative; I was one of the first 160 people to use LJ), different… Read more »
Tommyknocker’s Cocoa Porter may well be my favorite new beer. But… it’s seasonal. I have to wait until November to get more of it. This is where I drop to my knees and yell “Khaaan!” into an empty beer bottle. Here’s the Cocoa Porter Page, and if you can find it — do so. It’s the kind of beer you… Read more »
It’s hard for me to find beers I really enjoy, because I have what is apparently a bizarre set of tastes in beer. At least regionally. (Or maybe it is very popular and that’s why my beers of choice aren’t available.) Because of this I am willing to try almost anything labelled as a stout, or with the word “cream”… Read more »