Category: Beer Reviews

  • Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA with Ashton VSG

    For this beer review we tasted Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA with Ashton VSG cigars. As an educational experience, tasting an ingredient surpasses any lesson or text. In the beer world, knowing what makes a great porter is best understood by trying other beers with Crystal 77 and Chocolate malts. Learning the flavors of the key elements, enhances…

  • Cigar City Jai Alai IPA Beer Review

    Cigar City Jai Alai IPA Of the southern breweries unavailable in Cleveland, Tampa Bay’s Cigar City is one of the most intriguing. Founded only a few years ago, this craft brewer is a rarity in a state where frozen drinks are king. And CCB wasted no time however getting the beer world buzzing. In addition…

  • What to Drink This Summer Part 2: Fruit Beers

    Summer beers can be a challenge these days. While American beer tastes have pushed brewers to hugely hopped IPAs, dynamically flavored  sours, and Russian imperial stouts too boozy to be considered beer in Russia, for most beer drinkers none of these categories speaks to warm weather refreshment. What is a beer lover to serve at debt ceiling parties? In…

  • Terrapin Monks Revenge 2011 Beer Review

    The Terrapin Bewery out of the musical city of Athens Georgia has been brewing some well respected ales since 2002. In addition to their usual (and award winning) lineup, they now offer a limited series of experimental beers and a high gravity line known as “Monster Beers”. The Terrapin Monks Revenge is one of these monsters.…

  • Founders KBS Kentucky Breakfast Stout 2011/2010

    [dropcap]H[/dropcap]aving reviewed the 2011 Founders KBS Kentucky Breakfast Stout already on draft, it is time to compare this legendary imperial stout against some other barrel aged beers as well as against the 2010 vintage. Does a beer that is already cave aged an entire year fade away after another year in the bottle? Does the…