First, you need to know two facts. 1) Hell or Helles is a light lager style of beer. It’s popular in Bavaria and is commonly served during the hot summer months. If you’ve ever seen a picture of tourists enjoying a beer in Munich beer gardens, chances are the beer they were drinking was a [...]
Filed under: Beer on March 31st, 2010 | No Comments »
Has this ever happened to you? You walk in your favorite beer store and suddenly you freeze up. You know you want beer, you just have no idea what kind. Do you want a light lager? Do you want something dark and chewy? Maybe you want something in-between. But you just don’t know what! As [...]
Filed under: Beer on March 28th, 2010 | No Comments »
In all honesty, this is just another meaningless beer competition. But, these are still fun to watch, aren’t they? The Beer Madness competition is put on by The Washington Post. They ask they readers to apply to join the beer tasters panel. This means the judges are generally lay-people, not beer professionals. That’s certainly an [...]
Filed under: Beer on March 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Okay, I admit that a few weeks ago I shat on breweries for getting wrapped up in the “world’s strongest beer” contest. But I can’t help but be fascinated by stuff like this. So, like a moth to a flame, I was drawn to this headline: Brewer brews bitterest beer ever. Even though it was [...]
Filed under: Beer on March 19th, 2010 | No Comments »
The big day is approaching. While you might feel obligated to grab a Guinness or one of those pints of green beer that started showing up a week or so ago, why not try some stout based beer cocktails this year? Naturally, there’s the classic Black and Tan. Traditionally, the B&T is made with Guinness [...]
Filed under: Beer, sangria, st. patrick's day on March 11th, 2010 | No Comments »