Archive for July, 2008

Guinness Extra Stout

« 14 July 2008 | 19:03 | various stuff | No Comments »

Picked up a 6pk the other day.
I used to love it, but this just tasted poor, stale and bad.



A little write up on one of my Barleywines…

« 12 July 2008 | 10:13 | various stuff | No Comments »

Jesse Becker, a wine expert shared a bottle of my barleywine over the fourth of July, and he was inspired enough by it to write a little blurb about it in his wine blog.
he makes it sound pretty damn good! (it was/is!)

Barleywines are beer, but they often come close to wine-like [...]



Isabelle Proximus

« 4 July 2008 | 8:08 | various stuff | No Comments »

From “My Beer Pix” blog,
http://www.mybeerpix.com/isabelle-proximus-releases-saturday/
A few of USAs best breweries made some wort and split it up between various barrels that they brought in. It’s a lambic experiment, should be pretty damn interesting. Maybe I’ll have to ask brother bernie in SF to keep his eyes peeled.
From the Lost Abbey website…
SAN MARCOS, Calif. – At [...]



Ok… so now it’s july.

« 4 July 2008 | 7:53 | various stuff | No Comments »

No posts for a while, but  it’s ok.  I have made some beer.  A golden, a spontaneous fermentation and a maple syrup esb.
I spent a few days in california and had some good beers.
Best were the IPAs from Russian River. 21st amendment had a nice IPA but it was similar to the three – (blind [...]