286 Reviews
At a Hy steaks dinner, way out of my price range. Luckily the only thing I was paying was attention and compliments. Had a great chat with the bartender who once he discovered I was a beer reviewer (I told him in hopes of a freebie, no dice) asked me what has become a...
Hip hop? I can tell you who’s who in The Who, or who’s still alive from the Grateful Dead. I can talk rock like nobody’s business. Hip Hop, not so much. There is that guy named after the candies, M&M, then there’s the Bestie Boys, and Mary Obliged but that’s all I...
Another Scottish beverage to follow on the Robbie Burns theme started by RS, our own Cranky Old Bard in his recent review. If you aren't familiar with Robbie Burns, then you need to read Second Degree Burns by RS to catch up. You won't find any Scottish phrases here,...
Us COM find ourselves out in left field quite often these days, with something ice cold on hold. 7 times to date to be exact, bird watching, and reminiscing about Mr.Oktober putting on a laser show. Enough baseball lingo, spring training is still a month away. * But...
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...
Cream Ale takes me back to my youth. Not that I drank beer as a youngster - but I can distinctly remember watching Saturday morning cartoons on an American TV channel from Syracuse or possibly Rochester and seeing ads for Genesse Cream Ale. I'm not sure they got the...
If the Silversmith squirrels are looking for nuts, they sure came to the right beer. The squirrels around here are as large as NYC sewer rats and just as deferential, as in not. They remind me of those rascally rodents raiding the most spectacular bird feeder in the...
That nutty buddy of mine, Bud the Elf on the beer shelf, shows up on Christmas day and makes his preference clear. Looks like a Chestnut brown is going down. Chestnuts r’oasting in a brewhouse kettle, Jack Frost nowhere to be seen, It doesn’t much matter what you’re...
We have established that Henderson’s best is Henderson’s Best, or to put it another way, Henderson’s Best is Henderson’s best. But what happens when you have a fusion of Henderson’s Best amber ale with Palm’s best Belgian amber? You get what Henderson calls a double...
In case you were wondering, apparently Beerios is what you get when you substitute beer for milk in your Cheerios for breakfast. Now I’m not much of a day drinker, but if the occasional noon or afternoon quaff is in the cards, I’ll deal with it. But beer in my...