Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary – Black Barleywine

Part three of Sierra Nevada’s Anniversary Ales is a black barleywine, a new style in the world of craft beer.  This year has revealed a share of black IPAs, for example Southern Tier’s Iniquity IPA, but this is the first black barleywine I’ve seen.  I love a good barleywine, and...

Dogfish Head Sahtea

Dogfish Head is one of those craft breweries that consistently pushes the envelope when it comes to beer, and I’m always excited to see what they’ll come up with next.  So I was not too happy when I saw that their newest adventure was to use tea in a beer!...

Southern Tier Farmer’s Tan Imperial Pale Lager

Being from Saint Louis and growing up smelling Anheuser Busch brewing beer it really reminds me of what I always imagined Bud would taste like in my...

New Belguim Series: #2 Fat Tire

When I think back on the first “good beer” or, craft brew as we know it, I ever had, I get great vivid flashbacks. I was at my sisters place in Boston, I was probably “21″ and it was a beer she had raved about. My sister lived in Boulder,...