Archive for January, 2010

Saison Dupont

The Saison is slowly becoming one of my favorite lighter styles of beer. One of the reasons is because they are easy drinking, but another is that they have a slightly heightened amount of flavor and booze. There’s really no other way to say it – and the Saison Dupont is no exception. It’s pretty [...]

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Ayinger Celebrator

One style that I have not spent as much time on as I’d like is the German Doppelbock. People who know me well know that I really favor American craft beer at the moment. I just think we have a lot to offer in this country and we are doing things that others are simply [...]

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21st Amendment Monk’s Blood

There has certainly been a trend around The Hopry lately – and that is the fact that I’ve been drinking a lot of great canned craft beers. For the most part, they have all been IPAs…until now. On this night we moved to Abt/Quadrupel territory. I have to admit that the first time I heard [...]

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Bell’s Hopslam

This is it guys — the holy grail of beer for me. I don’t know how else to put it except to tell you that Bell’s Hopslam is the single best beer on the market. Released only once a year, people stand in line, leave their name on waiting lists, or just outright stalk liquor [...]

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Lagunitas Brown Shugga

Lagunitas, from Petaluma, California, is known mostly for their amazing (and value-driven) Imperial IPA called Hop Stoopid. Luckily, we have finally been given the okay to get Lagunitas in Kansas and Missouri — so I have not been deprived by any stretch of the imagination. The first day I saw Hop Stoopid available here in [...]

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