“…asked me what I wanted. “Ballantine Ale,” I said…a very mystic long shot, unknown between Newark and San Francisco. He served it up, ice-cold. I…
The Hoppy Half-Pint
“Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed – Then I look into the glass and think about the…
Well me hearties, it’s been an unusually long interval since my last post, for which I’m half apologetic. Not entirely so, because sometimes a person…
Craft: “1. a trade or occupation requiring manual skill. 2. skill; dexterity.” – Random House Webster’s Dictionary “Craft”—and I use the term loosely—breweries are proliferating,…
“True Fermentation few workers understand, That secret therefore I will expound to you… For like as flour of wheat made into a paste, Requires ferment,…
In a beer scene as young as Rochester’s, to say that a brewery produces clean beers without any obvious defects is a compliment. True, that…
“Forty-two!” yelled Loonquawl. “Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work?” “I checked it very thoroughly,” said the…
“Good people drink good beer.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas You may have noticed that The Hoppy Half-Pint and the…
It’s Halloween, which in the U.S. is pretty much an excuse to eat candy, wear costumes, scare ourselves silly, and unabashedly celebrate pumpkins. And this…
Full disclosure: I got my two cans of this beer from a public relations company. They did not pay me to write the review, nor…