I went shopping last weekend at the liquor store. Mostly I was buying wine; I had a coupon. And while I was there I picked up a six-pack of a beer I've been meaning to compare in my Beer Tasting 2022 project. (Yes, I'm very aware it's now 2024. I drink slowly, okay ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I saw a new beer at Costco: Früh Kölsch. Costco isn't a great place to go looking for new beers as they stock a narrow selection dominated by big brands. Narrow selection is part of their business model. Occasionally, though, they have something off the wall that probably they got a good price on. For example, last summer I found ( Read more... )

It's September, which in the beer world means it's Oktober... as in Oktoberfest! When I dropped in to a liquor store last weekend to grab a four-pack of a beer I've been enjoying lately I saw numerous seasonal Oktoberfest beers on the shelf. Several were from credible breweries and at pretty good prices. I ended up walking out with 3 six-packs and ( Read more... )

Most of my recent entries in my Beer Tasting 2022 project have featured dark lagers, aka bock beer. I've grown a bit tired of them. While I do want to explore bocks a bit further I also want to take a break. After trying a shit beer (and kind of liking it) with a light body I decided to try a light-bodied good beer. Almost on a whim I picked up a 4 ( Read more... )

The past few rounds of my Beer Tasting 2022 project I've been tasting German style bock beers. To sort of close out the category I decided to put two Germany heavyweights up against each other.


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It's hard to believe it's Round 10 of my beer tasting 2022 project, but here we are. Round 10. For this round I decided to continue branching out a bit. After tasting lagers in rounds 8 and 9- Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy and ShaKa Brewing's Sunnyvale Pale Lager I decided it's worth going a bit deeper into the category ( Read more... )