Greetings Life of Dad community! I had an awesome time last week, in Houston. Special thanks to David Graham and the entire Karbach Brewing crew for the private brewery tour and tastings. More to come next week on that. I don't want to say too much here, but the selection [...]
Welcome to part 3 of The Beer Guy’s celebration of “The Week After American Craft Beer Week” (“TWAACBW” for short), where we are highlighting four different craft breweries. On Tuesday, we met Jeff Erickson, a homebrewer for South OC Brewing. Yesterday, we met Chris Tourre and the good folks [...]
Welcome to part 2 of The Beer Guy’s celebration of “The Week After American Craft Beer Week” (“TWAACBW” for short), where we are highlighting four different craft breweries. Yesterday, we met Jeff Erickson, a homebrewer for South OC Brewing. Today, I introduce you to Chicago’s Arcade Brewery. Arcade [...]
Welcome to part 1 of The Beer Guy’s celebration of “The Week After American Craft Beer Week” (“TWAACBW” for short), where we are highlighting four different craft breweries. For every Jim Koch (co-founder and chairman of Boston Beer Company - the producers of Samuel Adams and largest craft [...]
Well, another successful celebration of American Craft Beer Week has come and gone. That doesn’t mean we have to stop honoring and enjoying craft beer, though. In the short 2-month tenure I’ve had here at Life of Dad, it has come to my attention that Dads certainly enjoy their beer. [...]
Name of beer: 2011 Smoked Porter Brewing Company: Alaskan Brewing Company Brewing Location: Juneau, AK Type of Beer: American Porter or "Smoke Beer" – ABV: 6.5% - IBU: 45 Beer Description (From website): Style: Smoked Beer. Known as "rauchbier" in Germany, smoke-flavored beers were virtually unknown in the U.S. until [...]
Name of beer: Raspberry Brown Brewing Company: Lost Coast Breweries Brewing Location: Eureka, CA Type of Beer: American Brown Ale – ABV: 5.0% - IBU: 22 Beer Description: From bottle: A chocolate Brown Ale with the essence of ripe red raspberries, made with malted barley, chocolate and caramel malts, hops [...]
Greetings Life of Dad Community! Welcome to The Beer Guy's 4th week of writing beer reviews and responding to reader mail. Top 5 Craft Brewing Companies (based on 2011 beer sales volume) By now, most of you have realized that the beers being reviewed are not your [...]
Name of beer: Nero's 1st Century Double Dark Malt Ale Brewing Company: Amarcord Birra Artigianale Brewing Location: Apecchio, Italy Type of Beer: Bock – ABV: 8.0% - IBU: Not known (Traditional bocks range from 20-27 IBU's) Beer Description: From bottle: As they say in Rome "Tizio, birra me." The Beer Guy [...]
Greetings Life of Dad Community! I'm starting to get that feeling of spring and summer. Warmer weather and less rain means spending more time outside. What does that mean? Beer festivals, of course! I tweeted (@TheBeerGuyLOD) last week about finding one of the most complete beer festival calendars [...]