This is another beer that my wife bought me when she was in New York.  It’s from a Vermont brewery called Long Trail Brewing Company.  This beer is a coffee stout and it’s from their Brewmaster series.  The coffee they used when they brewed it was from Vermont Coffee Company so you are truly getting [...]

My wife travels a lot for work and when she goes away, she has been stopping at liquor/beer/grocery stores and picking up random beers she thinks I might want to try.  This was one of those beers.  It’s from Southern Tier Brewing Company based in Lakewood New York.   This beer is apparently part of their [...]

This is the second Ommegang beer I have had since I started my Year of Beer.  The first was an Abbey Ale that I really enjoyed but haven’t written up my review yet.  Ommegang is based in Cooperstown NY but does a wonderful job at making Belgian style ales.  According to the bottle, Ommegang is [...]

There it is in all it’s glory!  I can’t imagine too many people have anything bad to say about this beer.  Admittedly it’s the first beer I have ever reviewed so you will have to take my opinion with a grain of salt.  I have done a lot of research into tasting and evaluating beer [...]

One of my big challenges for my Year of Beer is going to be learning how to actually taste and review beer.  I am a complete novice at this and could be wrong but it seems to me that if you can’t taste and evaluate beer; if you can’t pick out which flavors are [...]