Around 11PM on the night we returned from our vacation, Limpd stopped by with a bottle of beer that I just had to try… While browsing the aisles of a new Center City Philadelphia beer store (can’t recall the name), he stumbled upon this beer with the long […]
As I mentioned in my review of the Nikka Whisky From The Barrel, I recently had the opportunity to help Mark Gillespie of WhiskyCast with a new project called WhiskyCast Virtual Tastings. In addition to his weekly WhiskyCast podcast, Mr. Gillespie plans to gather four listeners per month […]
Looking for a summer beer, I picked up a six pack of the Breckenridge Summer Bright Ale. Now, we had heard great things about Breckenridge and were somewhat disappointed with the Vanilla Porter but I thought I would give them another try. From the
I had some beer related plans for my family vacation to Maine: a visit to the Allagash Brewery in Portland and a visit to Smuttynose in Portsmouth, NH. Although I didn’t get to visit the breweries, I did have several opportunities to do some New England beer hunting. […]
On a trip to Kress Liquors, I had picked up a couple of big bottles. So, when the G-LO Jrs had my boys over, I just couldn’t show up empty handed (I was raised right). As the boys played and the dutiful fathers supervised (well sort of), we cracked […]
Looking for something new, I ventured to Kress Liquors’ wall of imports and looked for something from Merchant du Vin that I hadn’t tried yet. I picked up a Westmalle Tripel as a part of a mixed six. Usually, I would have picked up a heavier bottle from […]
Looking for something new, I ventured to Kress Liquors’ wall of imports and picked up a mixed six. One of the six was the Erdinger Hefe Weizen (aka Erdinger Weissbier). I have had about two dozen beers in this style this summer and while it is not one […]
About four weeks ago, I received an invitation from Mark Gillespie of WhiskyCast to help him out with a new project that he is undertaking (more about this in a future post). At the end of my visit, Mark asked me if I’d like a whisky sample to […]
Have you ever had a beer and found it to be so good and it sort of frames your evening and leaves you with a powerful memory? Have you ever had that beer again and then thought what just happened? That was my experience with the Shiner Bock. […]
On a recent trip to NY, I ventured out to find a local beer to bring back to the fellow Dancers. Without any research, I picked up two sixes from Keegan Ales of