Boulder Brewing: Killer Penguin Barleywine

I wish I had a cool story about how I scaled a 14′er in Colorado and at the summit I was greeted by the Dalai Lama, Vishnu, Buddha, Jesus, and the pope and we all sat down and put a few back and talked about life, but alas my story is not that cool.  I [...]

Unibroue, Canada’s brewing gem

A quick trip to the grocery store rarely yields the purchase of a fine ale, but in some instances you come upon an old favorite and make the impulse buy.  That’s what happened to me today.  I came upon Unibroue‘s La Fin du Monde.  Unibroue is located in Chambly, Quebec, Canada.  Unibroue is also my [...]

Eccentric Ale

We’ve reached that time of year again, when Bell’s Brewing in Kalamazoo opens its doors to those of us with certain, eccentricities, and provides us our very own beer.  Ian and I went to Eccentric day a few years ago with somewhat disastrous results, and the results were not particularly different for me this year, [...]