Popular in the late 1800s, the last oatmeal stout was brewed before the First World War until Samuel Smith reintroduced this style in 1980.
Read moreBottles or Cans?
"Bottles or Cans?" As with many re-examined aspects of the beer culture, the bottles or cans question itself is evolving.
Read moreThe Beer in Our Backyard
The Session, a.k.a. Beer Blogging Friday, is an opportunity once a month for beer bloggers from around the world to get together and write from their own unique perspective on a single topic. Each month, a different beer blogger hosts the Session, chooses a topic and creates a round-up listing all of the participants, along with a short pithy critique of each entry.
Read moreBeer Punt
I want to invent a new beer term, "beer punt". This is what happens when you're in a restaurant (Or any establishment) and realize that the beer selections are so poor that you decide a glass of wine is the better option.
Read moreBeer Festivals: A Three Part Harmony
So, the question has been asked for The Session #96, do beer festivals serve as a geek gatherings or for beer dissemination?
Read moreBeer Restuarant Nirvana
Are you the kind of person that rates a restaurant by how it handles its beer? I am, at least I will always make that observation.
Read moreStone's Smoked Porter
So how do you decide what beer to bring home with you? The label? The beer style you keep going back to? The brewery? Do you simply trust that a brewery is going to do the right thing with a beer?
Read moreGreen Flash Hop Head Red Reviewed
The Hop Head Red comes from Green Flash Brewing of San Diego CA. BeerAdvocate lists its style as an amber ale but according to the label and the ABV it reads more like a big American India Pale Ale.
Read morePour Hard, Admire & Enjoy
Sawtooth Ale Nitro by Left Hand Brewing is an interesting twist on a traditional beer. Here are four reasons you'll love this beer and one why you may not.
Read moreLagunitas Night Time Ale
I found this a good beer that I think just by the name, you have to sip at night. Right?
Read moreMaine Weez Poured
Weez is dedicated to the brewers cat (thus the whiskers on the label) of the same name. I'm not a cat person but I wouldn't let that get in my way of a good beer.
Read moreSouthern Tier Goat Boy
The style from Einbeck was later adopted by Munich brewers in the 17th century and adapted to the new lager style of brewing. Due to their Bavarian accent, citizens of Munich pronounced "Einbeck" as "ein Bock" ("a billy goat"), and thus the beer became known as "bock". To this day, as a visual pun, a goat often appears on bock labels.
Read moreLagunitas Undercover Investigation
Lagunitas is one those brewers you know that you can trust to produce a great beer. This a beer that has been around for awhile but has that strange name. There must be a story here.
Read moreBeer - a four course meal
One beer as an adventure, one as an appetizer, one that would pair well with my meal, and one for dessert. Walla, I've turned a small plate of ahi tuna into an experience - well in my mind it was.
Read more20 Most Influential Beers
If you enjoy intellectual conversions especially when beer is the topic you will have a lot of fun with the banter over what are the 20 most influential beers of all time.
Read moreBourbon County Stout in a Paper Cup
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, a beer that has created a lot of beer buzz, no pun intended.
Read morePlan Your Meal
And so I thought it would be great if a restaurant would offer smart portions of a variety of beers so that you could have one with each course. And then it dawned on me - they do - they call them samplers, flights or paddles.
Read moreBeer, No-Part-Time-Passion
In the beginning there was beer - and it was good.
Okay, it was sometime after that but it was along time ago and it was good. It had to be because they kept on making it. And making it better ever since.
Read moreWisdom of Zappa
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
- Frank Zappa
An Irish Toast
“Here’s to long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer — and another one!”
