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Fall is the best time of year.  College football, sweatshirt weather, homemade chili, and nice malty beers1 like Bell’s Best Brown Ale. Hailing from my home state of Michigan and available, like, everywhere, the humbly-named Bell’s Best Brown Ale is a toasty yet relatively light-bodied American Brown Ale with notes of car ...

I've been a little quiet on the blog recently due to vacation, family stress, and just a little bit of ennui.  So after talking with Dan from Beerploma, I've decided to join the staff there for my future beer blog posts as a way to kick myself up a notch and try to change things up a bit.  I've been doing this blog for several years a ...

Next up in bottles from Anderson’s Carolina Bauernhaus: Feral Barrel Blackberry. Coming in at 5.7% ABV, the beer is a dark wild ale fermented with native and SouthYeast Labs yeast in a mixture of cabernet and bourbon barrels for six months, then aged on local blackberries for another month and a half. The beer will be ...

Oh baby! Everything is local this week - less one beer from Green Flash Brewing. Talisman Bourbon Barrel Oatmeal Stout - Talisman continues with the very limited releases. This new brew is an Oatmeal stout aged in Sugar House Whiskey Barrels. Only 100 bottles produced - one per person. Available at the brewery. SOLD OUT ALREADY 6.3% A ...

Jargon infects all human enterprise. It's probably a habit of mind that allowed speech to develop--which is a good thing. It also leads to the development of jargon when a group of people in a related field talk to each other long enough. And eventually, it leads to meaningless jargon where words are mere name checks that signal, apparently, in ...

Back in August, I took a vacation with the family to Orange Beach, AL. Of course, I had to make a beer run, and one of the first things I noticed was a SweetWater fall variety pack with cans of 4 different beers. We get SweetWater beers over here in Louisiana (but only 420 pale ale in cans…come on Mockler, give us more cans!), so I didn& ...

It’s hard not to get excited about a beer with “Tennessee” right in the name. Tennessee Cream Ale from Blackberry Farm Brewery certainly embraces Tennessee as it is not only brewed here in east Tennessee but the yeast used is a native strain found on Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee. Staying true to the “cream ale&r ...

Revelry Brewing recently announced an expansion of their Charleston brewery in the form of a rooftop tasting area, which officially opens to the public yesterday. Brewery co-owner Sean Fleming recently told the Charleston City Paper that their tasting room has run out of space, so the brewery decided for a vertical expansion. The outd ...

One of the biggest problems I have as a beer writer/blogger is just trying to keep up with the plethora of beer events/news/brewery openings. You'd think, given how small the Alaska beer scene is when compared to someplace like Portland or Denver, that it would be so simple to keep abreast of all the goings-on, but it's not. Frankly, I don't kn ...

Tons of Beer, by Paul Sableman from Flickr The beer people in Kansas City have learned over the years that summer is no time for a beer festival. And thank gawd for that. I remember the early days of the KC Beer Fest sweating out twice the volume that I was putting down on the top deck of a parking garage at the Legends. It was unholy h ...