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Square meals, good idea. Square deals, good idea. Square wheels, bad idea. Unless it's an IPA from the Town team. Another Town going down, this time their signature IPA, a big deal wheel. It’s a one and done night so no matter how this tasting turns out,* there...
Snowed in at the cottage so another fireside chat but this one is with the Ghost of Oktoberfest Past! GOP: Cranky old man, why do you drink these fruit and vegetable beers and forsake the spirits of Oktoberfest past? COM: Haven’t you heard the saying variety is the...
This brew brought to mind Neil Young’s album Harvest,* then I recalled Harvest Crunch.** Then as my mind continued to wander and wonder, I thought about the video game Harvest Moon that my kids played incessantly back in the day. But never, ever did I think about...
The bird is the word today, as in I’m tippin’ the bird with a real Czech lager from the Heinnie crowd. They say a golden pheasant in a field is good luck, the sign of a bountiful harvest. Of course, a flock of geese in a field is the sign of a golf course, so watch...
We haven’t visited Ace Hill* in a while but I recall their pilsner knocked it out of the park. A Vienna Lager is about as close as you can get to Amber without incurring an harassment charge,** and those of you who know me, know I love me an amber. So I had high hopes...
As a hard-working beer reviewer, I had an immediate affinity to this brew. Working hard is right.* Nose to the grindstone to meet the daily brew review deadline. Banging my head against the writer’s block wall, with fingers worn to the bone with writer’s cramp. Lost...
“Wasn't she a beer drinkin' woman? Don't ya know, man don't ya know?” In 1941 Memphis Slim* was singing about his date at the Ruby Tavern who drank away all his money! I’ve heard of blind dates, but this sounded like a blind drunk date. Fast forward to some 30 years...
A stout that’s not a stout, what’s that all about? It’s about a white stout no doubt. I haven’t had a lot of luck with the genre, usually they are just too damn sweet for me. Yes, when it comes to my stouts the choice is usually black and white. But on a bar stool at...
For those of you suffering from nyctophobia,* have no fear, your beer is here. Here is a dark beer for those that don’t want a dark beer, which begs the question if you don’t want a dark beer why drink a dark beer? Having no reasonable answer to that question, let’s...
Lake effect for me is a cold front of a frosty brew after a lazy line in the lake evening. But any meteorologist worth their weight in road salt will tell you lake effect is what buries Buffalo in three feet of snow at a time. Apparently GLB was inspired not by a...