April 26th, 2007
Categorized under: brew festivals, nerax
Upcoming beer events
http://www.boston.com/ae/events/articles/2007/04/26/going_for_the_gold/ Looking forward to the Beer Guys’ report from NERAX!
April 26th, 2007
April 25th, 2007
Categorized under: Funny
Do you have a strange mind? (like us)
Do you have a strange mind? fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 2Bereyugs can. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at 2Bereugy Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht […]
April 24th, 2007
Categorized under: Beer Review, CBC
Red God IPA
Today was the first day for CBC’s 2007 edition of the Red God IPA: Featuring Simcoe, Amarillo, and Columbus hops at an unheard of rate of over three pounds per barrel, with American pale and Belgian caramel malts providing a malty but dry pedestal upon which this hop fest rides until its long, lingering, hop-bittered […]
April 20th, 2007
Categorized under: Home brewing, Original Articles
Into the Secondary
We transferred the beer into the secondary fermenter tonight. Bottling a week from tonight…
April 19th, 2007
Categorized under: Beer Review, Original Articles
San Miguel Lager fest!!
I thought of a couple of different titles for this blog, but I stuck with Lager fest. In my previous blog, I accidentally called it “Sam” and not “San”. Maybe I am thinking too much of “Sam Adams” (ohhh.. yes I mentioned their name), but you can rest assure that it’s cause of the font […]
April 18th, 2007
Categorized under: Beer Review, Original Articles
Thrilla in Manila
Hello from the far east… It’s a hot time here in Manila (I know, you just suffered from a Nor’Easter). I saw a little about it on the news stations here. I had had a couple of beers and I wanted to share my experience… On Monday Night, which really is Tuesday morning, I tried […]
April 15th, 2007
Categorized under: General
Beer and baseball. Not.
Todays Sox game against the Angels has been cancelled due to inclement weather. F@?k! Ah well, we are heading into Kenmore anyway in search of beer and someone elses baseball. When life hands you lemons, ‘put them in your Sam Summer’. – Hops —— Cheers, Ian
April 14th, 2007
Brew Day
After about 6 hours of preparation, brewing and clean-up, brew day is over. It was a lot of work and pretty intimidating, but tons of fun. hopefully in about 5 weeks i can bring a couple of bottle to the beer guys for a tasting. Unless it sucks, which it very well may. I brewed […]
April 12th, 2007
My first taste of Summer
When I think summer, I think of two things I look forward to every year: Red Sox baseball and Sam Summer. This is exactly what I got on a chilly spring day in Boston. Gavin and I decided to go down to Boston for Red Sox opening day. It was gray, chilly and windy out. […]
April 11th, 2007
Stop and drink some beer!
On Monday night Ian, Sean and I met at the Grog in Newburyport Ma. We met Mark, Sebago Brewing Co’s sales representative. Sebago makes its home in Gorham ME and also has a great brew pub in Portland ME. We fully expected to meet a fabulous beer geek, swimming in beer knowledge, with a crazy […]