berts beer blog

Homebrew – Irish Stout

Bert — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:18:08 +0000

Having been a fan of beer for some time now, I recently decided it was high time to stop relying on the labors of others and give homebrewing a shot. So last weekend, armed with the latest in beginner brewing kits and aided by an experienced friend, I embarked on what what would be a weekend wrought [...]

Leinenkugel’s – Fireside Nut Brown

Bert — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:25:42 +0000

At long last, back to the beer blog. There have been many changes in my life of late, yet sweet sweet beer has been a constant throughout my recent turmoil. An anchor, if you will; helping me to keep a foothold in reality while many significant aspects of my life shuffled around. And now that [...]

Harpoon – Summer

Bert — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:46:49 +0000

It's a bit late in the year for a summer beer, but I thought it may be appropriate since I'm a bit late in general in terms of my frequency of beer blogging. So for my third or fourth return to this beer blog, I've decided to go with Harpoon's Summer beer. This particular brew [...]

New Look!

Bert — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:39:09 +0000

It's that time of year again, where for some arbitrary reason or another I remember that I have a beer blog. As you may have noticed, it now looks different (although I'd be impressed if you actually remember what the old one looked like). So since I'm now upgraded to the latest version of wordpress [...]

Widmer – Hefeweizen

Bert — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:00:33 +0000

Ahh Hefeweizen; sweet, often delicious, unfiltered wheat beer... So I was picking up a 30 rack of some cheap domestic pee in a can the other day (not for me, I promise!) and I thought I may as well get something I haven't had before to keep this whole blog thing going. As you may [...]