Archive for October, 2009

Dark Horse Tres

I hate to admit it, but it’s true! My good friend Andrew went to Wisconsin to visit a relative and I gave him a list of beers to buy, including a couple beers from New Glarus. One of them being the stellar fruit beer called Wisconsin Belgian Red. Funny thing is that the Dark Horse [...]

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Russian River Pliny the Elder

It should be no secret by now how much Russian River Brewing Company is respected in the craft beer world. Pliny the Elder alone is so highly sought after that stores in California can’t even keep these $4 bottles on the shelves. The even rarer Pliny the Younger is not even sold in bottles, so [...]

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Sierra Nevada Bigfoot (2009)

Sierra Nevada is probably one of the first breweries to really gain momentum as a craft brewery. In the early days they used to call these producers of smaller quantity beers Microbreweries. But whatever you want to call them today, Sierra Nevada is easily one of the largest craft beer producers in the United States. [...]

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De Struise Pannepot

Boy do the Belgians make great beer! I guess tradition proves that you should never mess with a good thing. And Pannepot from De Struise is a prime example of this. The complexity of this beer just goes on for days and days. Every time I drink it I pull something different out (either in [...]

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Allagash White

Ahhhh…The Cubs! They choke every year. But I sure as hell love them anyway. Wrigley Field may also just be one of my favorite places on earth. And it’s the only place I’ll truly be happy to drink and Old Style. When you’re in Chicago there are easily a million things to do and see, [...]

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