The Barley Whine

Author: Steve

  • Best Coffee Beer Part 2

    No Really, What Is The Best Coffee Beer? The Premise After our first tasting of coffee beers, we realized that the surface had only been scratched by our efforts. With so many coffee flavored beers currently being brewed, our attempts to find the world’s best needed a much larger sample size. And any excuse to…

  • 44 Hours of Beer in Oregon

    44 Hours of Beer in Oregon

    Took a short trip to Portland and Eugene. Just long enough to sample some great west coast brews. Finding Beer in Oregon If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult. P. J. O’Rourke …

  • Brooklyn Black Ops 2010 – 2011 Beer Review

    Brooklyn Black Ops 2010 – 2011 Beer Review

    Beer cellaring is all the rage. In this review we put a year old bottle of Brooklyn Black Ops —the Woodford Reserve bourbon barrel aged Russian imperial stout that is bottled flat and then fermented with champagne yeast— up against a fresh bottle. As an restless beer geek, I’m hoping my patience with the 2010…

  • Great Lakes Brewing Company Bourbon Barrel Release Party

    The Great Lakes Brewing Company Bourbon Barrel Release Party was held on January 16th in two sessions. Beers were offered for sample and the opportunity to purchase 4-packs of the 2012 Barrel-Aged Black Out Stout was afforded. Party Time! Brewery only release events come in different shapes, sizes, and levels of organization. Great Lakes, home not…

  • Best Coffee Beer Part 1

    Best Coffee Beer Part 1

    What Is The Best Coffee Beer?   The Premise Each winter brings back together old friends in North East Ohio for the Tri-City Beer Club’s Annual Christmas party. In its 15th year the TCBC is a small group of beer fans who gather to blind taste test beers in a category. Getting older, the group…