I just got back from an awesome, week long vacation which, if you have been watching the blog, is the reason why there have been no posts lately.  The first thing I noticed in our giant pile of mail when we returned home this afternoon was that I finally received my first issue of Zymurgy [...]

Someone sent me this picture and if this is the face of prohibition, how did it ever get passed?  I think this picture sums up why bars were invented in the first place.

This is one of the beers I received in my first Beer of the Month shipment.   It’s from a brewery called Pivovar Herold from the Czech Republic.    They have been around since 1506 so they must be doing something right.  Actually, to survive that long, they must be doing a lot of things right.
The beer [...]

Victory Brewing Company, a local favorite, announced the release of a new beer called Yakima Twilight.  It’s a Dark IPA.  Victory is known for it’s hoppy beers and I am pretty excited to get my hands on a case of this new dark IPA.  The mention on their blog that the beer is only going [...]

A friend of mine bought a case of this beer over the weekend and since he knew I was doing my Year of Beer he brought me a bottle.  I had never heard of Fort Collins Brewery but that shouldn’t be a reflection of the the brewery, there is a lot about beer that I [...]

On Friday, a group of us went to the Stoudts Microfest which is held at Stoudts Brewery.  It was the first beer festival I had ever gone to and it was a blast.  You had to buy tickets in advance, they were $30 a piece but for that you got a tasting glass, a great [...]