Beer Review – Veltins Pilsener
We relive our misspent youth and review a German Pilsener from the Veltins Brewery.
We relive our misspent youth and review a German Pilsener from the Veltins Brewery.
Let’s start this review off with a song… Beer Run. A song by Todd Snider and an IPA from Ninkasi Brewing Company’s Special Release Series. When we were first approached by Ninkasi to review their Beer Run IPA, I was assuming that this beer would be a Session […]
Before we get to our review of the Belgian beer that you see in the above photo (made by a brewery that I hadn’t heard of until this beer was literally delivered to my front porch!), let’s list some facts and figures about the country of Belgium… Total […]
You know you’re living in the Golden Age of American Craft Beer when you forget that many of the beer styles that we’ve grown to love were created somewhere else. Whether it’s the IPA which originated in England or the Berliner Weisse which originated in Germany or even […]
G-LO has been working the interwebz rather vigorously lately and the samples have been pouring in to the boozemail box. This has created a #FirstWorldProblem of sorts: We just have too much to drink and not enough time to drink it! I know, “Poor you!”. Anyway… A couple of […]
With an actual high temperature of around 52 degrees and total rainfall of 2.06 inches, May 13, 2017 probably wasn’t the greatest day (from a weather perspective) to host an Outdoor Craft Beer Festival (i.e. Pour-A-Palooza #9), but when you have 81 breweries scheduled to bring 143 different […]
Plum. Sour. Stout. These three words sound good when you say them individually, but when you say them together, they sound a bit mismatched. Plum and Sour works well together. Plum and Stout works too if the plums are ripe and sweet. But a Plum Sour Stout? That […]
Ever the dutiful son, G-LO pays a visit to his Mamma in South Philly on a weekly basis. Not too far away from her house is a great bottle shop (Beer Heaven). So, while playing his role as the ever dutiful son, he can also stop off and […]
Here on the East Coast, we are rapidly shedding our wintery weather and migrating all too quickly to summer. Spring it seems is no more than a three week block sometime before our Spring Break. As such, when we suddenly found ourselves on the cusp of a few […]
In years past, Limpd and I have had a few quibbles with the annual Philadelphia food and drink fest called The Brewer’s Plate that happens every March (this year’s event went down on March 5th) at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts… “The band was too loud. […]