A few geeks visiting Flying Dog Brewery

On a frosty, bone-cutting January day I got to fulfill one of my New Year’s resolutions. I took a trip to my favorite brewery, Flying Dog in Fredrick, Maryland. Not to kiss their collective asses but they really earned that title. Flying Dog fit one specific criterion for me. I have had everything they have [...]

Jim Koch explains how to taste beer

Boston Beer Company’s founder Jim Koch shares with Men’s Health TV how to taste a beer. He shows you how to pour the perfect beer then breaks beer tasting down to 4 steps and gives you the 3 things that make a beer great. Whether you like Sam Adams or not, this is a great [...]

Beer Utopia TV Ep#23

A Geek tasting Delirium Nocturnum

So my friend, iZathrez on twitter (who posts so very little) swings by to raid my comic book collection, suggests that it was a good day to taste a new beer, which is weird for him, but as it turns out he just wanted to see my beer spot… So, we took the trip there [...]

A Geek Tasting Otter Creek OKTOBERFEST

Well on my Slow Tour of Beers I have run across Otter Creek Autumn Ale. This beer had a very nice label, which reflected the arrival of cool weather in the autumn that transforms the landscape and read very well, so I decided to give it a try. No one who has grown up with [...]

A Geek Tasting Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Ale

This was a beer I had to taste because it was fall. When I bought it, the great Pumpkin was about to make an appearance. It was one of the beers that I was tasting because, well, it’s fall and the leaves are changing color. But on to the review, my first in some time [...]

How to taste beer

Do you know how to taste beer? Before you accuse me of smoking something illicit, I’m not asking if you know how to drink beer. Anyone with a mouth can drink beer but do you know how to taste beer? I guess a better question might be do you know how to evaluate the taste [...]

Oktoberfestival 08 – NJ Beer Goes Here!

It was a beautiful, very easy-going day. The temperature was just right for this time of the year. Doing beer tastings events in the cold has a different effect on me; next year I have to pace myself differently. But all in all, Das Erste! OktoberFestival. The First Annual Oktoberfest for the Garden State Crafts [...]

3 Pacific Northwest Beers From: Deschutes, Hale’s, and Bridgeport

A review of 3 Pacific NW (Oregon and Washington) beers: Deschutes Seasonal Jubelale 2008, Hale’s Kolsch, and Bridgeport’s Hop Czar Imperial IPA. The breweries are from Portland, and Bend, Oregon and Seattle Washington.

A Geek tasting : Flying Dog’s DogToberfest sans glass

It was a late night and I needed to relax, sit back for a minute and soak in the madness of the last few days. It was a cool September Saturday night and the sky was partly cloudy. It was really quiet and one of the last nights I would be having in what used [...]