Beer Review: Hoppin’ Frog Mean Manalishi Double IPA
Preparing myself for an assault on my taste buds. Tonight’s beer is the Hoppin’ Frog Mean Manalishi Double IPA, 8.2 % abv and a whopping 168 IBU’s. That a boat load of hops! I’m...
Monthly Archive: September 2009
Beer Brawl™ 26 – Oktoberfest Part 1 – Blind Tasting
Our first ever blind Beer Brawl. We decided to test as many Oktoberfest beers as we could easily get our hands on without going over board. We ended up with 12 that we wanted...
Wedding Beer
Saw a tweet from @THFBeer_Nate yesterday about making beer and labels for a friends wedding. It reminded me of my wedding 8 years ago. At that time I had only been brewing for about...
Quick Visit to the Peculier Pub – NYC
On a recent trek in to the city (New York City, for those out side the tri-state area), I had an hour to kill before my interview with Rob Tod of Allagash Brewing Company. ...
Interview with Rob Tod, Founder of Allagash
Most beer geeks, especially on the east coast, have heard of Allagash or have been lucky enough to have some of their Belgian style beers. The founder of Allagash beer sat down with me...
Beer Brawl™ 25 – Pumpkin Beer
Seems like there are a lot of pumpkin beers out there now. Is this the new American fall beer, like Oktoberfest is for Germany? I hope not, this type of vegetable beer has only...
Beer Wars Movie DVD Winner
Last week Simply Beer ran a contest to give away a DVD of the Beer Wars Movie. Using the Random number generator at Random.org, we picked the 9th comment, of all the comments submitted,...
Pumpkin Porter Brewing Session
I made this beer on a whim, had the ingredients and a basic porter recipe. I monkeyed around with the ingredients list till I got what I think might be a good or at...
A Day in NYC Craft Beer Week
I’m lucky enough to have a cadre of beer enthusiasts in my office. When we saw that the NY Craft Beer Week featured 83 different venues and 162 unique beers (check out the website...
Beer Wars Movie Review and DVD Giveaway
I was not able to attend the live showing of Beer Wars in my area, but I have since seen this documentary on DVD several times. Regardless of how the theater showing of the...
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