Author: Steve

  • De Proefbrouwerij Flanders Fred Collaborative Ale

    De Proefbrouwerij Flanders Fred Collaborative Ale

    DE PROEFBROUWERIJ FLANDERS FRED REVIEW Who is Alan Sprints? Hair of the Dog Brewing Company out of Portland Oregon makes some of the Pacific Northwest’s most delicious beers. Head brewer Alan Sprints brewed up one of those big beers, a massively flavorful American barleywine (they call it a golden strong ale) named Fred, and blended it with the guys at…

  • Three Floyds Moloko Milk Stout

    THREE FLOYDS MOLOKO MILK STOUT REVIEW WHAT IS A MILK STOUT? Milk stout, or “sweet stout”, is a variant of stout with a sweeter finish and thicker, creamy mouth-feel, generally from unfermentable milk sugar. Left Hand Milk Stout may be the best known American variant. One of the first milk stouts I recall tasting was from Willoughby Brewing Company at a beer tasting…

  • The Bruery Oude Tart

    The Bruery Oude Tart

    Flanders Red ales are a favorite style, so I’ve been looking forward to our review of the award winning Oude Tart from The Bruery. But first we need to take a slight detour into the price of craft beer. Craft beer is, by its nature as a small batch product, expensive, when compared to Big Beer’s…

  • Bell’s This One Goes To 11 Ale

    When visiting San Diego earlier this year, a town known as perhaps America’s best beer city based on their invention and output of hugely hoppy IPAs, a surprise came to me. Visiting local bars, I always search for the common denominator between various establishments. Some places will all have the same video game in the corner, or…

  • Kölsch

    History of Kölsch Starting in the 1840s, Czech’s were brewing the amazingly clear, quality controlled amber, with all the bubbles and Saaz hops that set Bohemian’s, and quickly the world’s, nips a-stiff. German brewers, freaked out by the popularity of the foreign beverage, with its clear look and consistent taste, began to improve their own…