Today’s selection won the World’s Best Beer award in the 2011 World Beer Awards, also carrying the categories of World’s Best Wheat Beer and World’s Best…
The Hoppy Half-Pint
To the best of my knowledge, Southeast Asia is not particularly known for its beers. Tea, yes. Textiles, yes. Curry, absolutely. But beer, and a…
Despite the Christmas-themed series title, only two or three of the entries are holiday or winter beers. Today’s post is one of them: Southern Tier’s…
See, I told you this list of beers was all over the map. Today’s selection harks from Edinburgh, Scotland, and was chosen over its siblings…
As I mentioned in the first post of this series, our 12 beers lineup isn’t about holiday beers. In fact, our selections are all over the…
Originally brewed by the Paulaner monks of Munich, Doppelbock is traditionally a Lenten beer, and is still served for two weeks during the period between…
‘Tis the season for Christmas-related beer posts, so we put together a collection of beers to review for the next 12 days, up to and…
Dogfish Head, the quirky commercial brewery out of Milton, Delaware, has a reputation for their style-defying—and style creating—experimental brews. Their 60 and 90 minute IPAs…
I figured it’s probably about time I explained who the “we” I sometimes refer to are. Though I’ve been known to be a bit bossy, it’s not the royal “we” I’m using; there’s me (Meagan), the main writer behind this operation, and the one for whom the blog is named, in a manner of speaking. And then there’s Ben, who does much of the real brewing work (including all of the heavy lifting), at least half of the beer tasting, and most of the science and maths.
This post was supposed to be about Heady Topper, the “Flagship Double IPA” from The Alchemist brewery in Waterbury, VT. This 8% ABV, 75 IBU brew is barely distributed outside of its hometown, making it notoriously difficult to get hold of. But Ben managed to find one store within a four hour drive that carries it, so after confirming that they actually had some in stock, we planned a weekend trip to check it out. Yes, there were one or two other attractions in the area, but the Heady Topper was a big draw. Feel free to form your own conclusions about how much of a beer geek that makes me.