tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46194717655526040052024-10-08T21:50:51.160-04:00Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-26361854195518162472012-08-10T12:00:00.018-04:002012-08-10T12:00:07.747-04:00

So for those who didn't know, the past few weeks I have been out of town so the posts have been automated. This post is included in that. I've been travelling in Europe and finished up my trip in Las Vegas with some friends. I set these posts up in advanced so I wouldn't have to worry about the blog while I was out of the country. Don't worry though, I took notes on all the beers I tried while I

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A few weeks ago, my friends and I went out to celebrate my roommate moving in. We went to a local favorite, Junior's, for some food and a few drinks before really heading out for the night. Junior's has a great deal where they feature a brewery and put a few of their beers on special for the month. This month the brewery was Shock Top. The bottles of the Wheat IPA and Raspberry Wheat were the

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So as I mentioned in an earlier post, I purchased Saranac's 12 Beers of Summer pack which gives you 6 different beers to try. The next few blog posts will likely be about them as I had never had most of the beers in the pack before. This post is about their Rye IPA. A Rye IPA is when the brewer replaces a portion of the grains with rye instead. The proportion is usually somewhere between twenty

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A good friend of mine started homebrewing about a year and a half ago. I've tried some of his beer and it is quite good. He's a grad student up in Vermont studying Education and he is a talented musician as well. He doesn't have a brewing website yet but as soon as there is something I will put a link in here. The most recent batch he gave me to try was an all-grain brew of an IPA that was dry

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So I was without internet for awhile as I moved into my new apartment but I didn't stop taking notes or trying new beers. One that made a particular impression on me was from Saranac's 12 Beers of Summer Pack, Saranac Blueberry Blonde Ale. Now in the past, I had found one of their seasonal beers a bit strong for my taste but one of my friends was raving about it so I decided to try it. Also, I

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A few weeks ago was the Family Hootenanny where we sat around most of a Saturday, drank beer, talked, played music and were generally awesome. My cousin Emma and her boyfriend Paul brought up some beers from their local brewery, Franklin's Brewery, for me to try. I'll probably do a more formal review when I go to visit this summer but for a sampling of what this brewery has to offer, I figure

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-37065189665661748322012-05-11T17:10:00.001-04:002012-05-11T17:10:06.081-04:00

This weekend my parents and I went to Boston to see the Red Sox play the Orioles. We stayed at a Comfort Inn not too far from downtown. Inside the inn, there were signs for a Deadwood Cafe and Brewery so, being me, I twisted everyone's arm into going. When we arrived, the place wasn't exactly what we expected. It was in a bowling alley but who am I to judge? This could be some fantastic

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The quest for the elusive blueberry beer I had two summer ago continues. This time I decided to get out of the ales and try a stout. Unfortunately, it still wasn't a success in finding the magical purple beer but in any case, this one was still very good. Buffalo Bill's Brewery was the source of our most recent blueberry beer in the form of their Blueberry Stout.  Their label held a lot of

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So for this post I did something a little different. My mom recently found out she is gluten intolerant. She, like many of us, enjoyed a good beer from time to time but no longer can. I've been on a bit of a mission to find a decent gluten free beer and this one caught my eye on my last trip to the beer store. New Planet's Off Grid Pale Ale boasted a higher hop rating from the store I was in

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-21357017764760827872012-04-18T16:00:00.004-04:002012-04-18T16:00:02.804-04:00

So life got a little crazy these past few months and despite the fact that I tried some wonderful beers, I just didn't have the time to write about them. Things are calming down now so we're going to try to start things up again here. About a week ago, my sister and I were on our way to get some beer for a party we were going to when we got distracted by a display of this year's summer beers.

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So for Christmas this year, I asked for fancy beer glasses because I was trying to be a little bit cooler this year. Put the beers I try in the correct type of glass when I try them to give them a proper chance when I review them. The set I picked out was from Spiegelau and my aunt got them for me from Amazon. I got them about a week and a half ago and was very excited to use them.

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I want to apologize for the lack of blogging lately. I've been uninspired lately, for lack of a better word. Beer, while still my drink of choice, was just not making me want to scream from the rooftops about it lately. It has been a very sad two months of uninspiring and lackluster beer. Fortunately, all that changed two weeks ago when I went to visit a couple of my friends up in Vermont. My

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Happy Birthday to me! Today, in celebration of my birthday, I wanted to get myself something special. While wandering around the local beer distributor in my town, I decided I wanted something with a cork on it. I also decided I wanted something that reeked of celebration with its label. Needless to say, Brouwerij Huyghe served that purpose with its dancing pink elephants on the label.

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-22725022620360190872011-11-21T12:00:00.002-05:002011-11-21T14:38:14.896-05:00

As the last entry in the Great Pumpkin-Off 2011, this beer is a more than proper way to end. Southern Tier Brewing Co. already impressed me with their Hop Sun over the summer so when a fan of the blog recommended this beer I was happy to oblige his request.  Related, perhaps, to Jack Skellington? Now I hate to continuously point out the importance of naming a beer and the subsequent way

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com2Monroe, NY 10950, USA41.3306493 -74.18681349999997141.309030299999996 -74.210270499999964 41.3522683 -74.163356499999978tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-16094741957912437272011-11-14T12:00:00.000-05:002011-11-14T12:00:03.350-05:00

So in honor of a good friend coming to visit me, we decided to visit a local brewery. She wants to get better at tasting beer and, well, I have a blog about beer so who was I to say no. This time we went up to Kingston, NY and visited Keegan Ales. The brewery was founded in 2003 and has garnered much acclaim over the past 8 years. I had already tried their Mother's Milk stout at a party over the

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com0Kingston, NY, USA41.9270367 -73.997360841.8797822 -74.0763248 41.9742912 -73.9183968tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-72860641319859653872011-11-06T12:33:00.000-05:002011-11-06T12:33:30.757-05:00

My younger sister recently celebrated her twenty-first birthday. To help her celebrate, our family went out to dinner at the Gilded Otter. The recommendation came from a number of people and we were all looking forward to it.  Places like the Otter seem to have an additional burden on them to not only provide quality beer but also quality food. This restaurant did not disappoint in either

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Halloween seems all too perfect a time to have the second to last beer in the Great Pumpkin-Off of 2011. Especially given the label for this beer is a Jack O'Lantern. Saranac Pumpkin Ale is one of their seasonal brews that's available in their 12 Beers a Falling or in its own 6 or 12 pack. The brewery is located in Utica, NY and as of right now I'm supposed to go visit it very soon. 

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Now when I started this blog, I was determined to try as many different types of beers as possible. It wasn't going to matter to me how scary or intimidating the name was, I was going to try it. Lately, I know I've been slipping a bit on this but a beer I found on my last trip to the store seems to have upped the ante a bit.  Monster Ale is a barleywine style ale from the wonderful

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-33408936887043070892011-10-22T12:00:00.013-04:002011-10-22T12:00:07.117-04:00

As mentioned in my first Sam Adams post about their Pumpkin Ale, I bought the entire Harvest Collection they put out this year in the 12 pack. I've always enjoyed Sam Adams as I feel their descriptions of their beers on the tops of their labels are spot on and they always put out a quality beer. I have not yet met a Sam Adams beer I do not like and hope to continue on this very happy

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-67327851349836128782011-10-17T12:00:00.000-04:002011-10-17T12:00:03.223-04:00

So it turns out, when you start writing about beer, your friends start thinking of you when they try new and/or weird beers. That's how I came across this beer here. I was at a friend's house one evening and she remembered she had something for me. As she ran to get it I remember her saying, "It's really awful but we thought you should try it." That's something to really strive for, in my opinion

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com0Beacon, NY 12508, USA41.5048158 -73.96958319999998841.483009300000006 -73.997000699999987 41.5266223 -73.94216569999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-12796119901436740412011-10-13T12:00:00.002-04:002011-10-13T12:00:06.997-04:00

With the warm weather we've had here on the East Coast, I thought it would be appropriate to finally review the bottle I bought during my visit to the Fremont Brewery. The only beer that wasn't on tap when I was there was the Summer Solstice and given how impressed I was with all their other offerings I was more than happy to purchase the beer to give it a try when I got home. Transporting it

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The latest in the Great Pumpkin Off is Cape Ann Brewing's Fisherman's Pumpkin Stout. This was the beer I was the most excited about as I had never seen a pumpkin stout before and the idea of a rich, malty stout with spicy pumpkin flavors was intriguing. So, hoping the best, I had saved it for the last of the ones I had originally bought. The beer poured nearly black with a thin cream colored

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The second beer in the first annual Great Pumpkin-Off is from a larger, more well known brewery. Every year, Sam Adams puts out a Harvest Pack and in the Harvest Pack is their very own Pumpkin Ale. While it may seem like Sam Adams has been around forever, the brewery actually started in 1984. This was an impressive beer. The color was deep reddish orange, bordering on mahogany with a cream

Brithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926574397524099805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4619471765552604005.post-20096778996506991492011-09-21T14:59:00.001-04:002011-10-12T09:53:43.761-04:00

In the spirit of the changing of the seasons, I decided to try pumpkin beers. This will be the first of four posts dedicated to these tried and true harbingers of fall. First up is Dogfish Head's oldest brew: Punkin Ale. Now, my first experience with Dogfish Head was less than spectacular and I was more than happy to finally be done with what I had started affectionately calling the "whiskey

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Last weekend I went to a restaurant I'd heard about for years on a local radio station, Bacchus Restaurant and Bar. A couple of good friends had gone to a wedding so I met them for lunch. Their sign boasts their beer list as over 400 beers but their website says that they're at about 500 so trying to pick something was a bit daunting. I've been really trying to not be picky but 500 choices

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