Short’s Brewing: Good Humans

My second beer of the night, likely third, and possibly 4th beer of the night is from Short’s Brewing of Bel Aire, Michigan.  Good Humans.  I don’t know the story behind it, and why it’s named what it’s named, but I do know I like good people, and according to Hunter S Thompson, good people [...]

Bell’s Expedition Imperial Stout: better than exploding tires.

The low tonight is between -5 and +3 farenheit.  Because I like beer, I needed to find a beer that keeps me warm in the cold.  Turns out, Imperial Stouts are just the right thing for that.  The epitome of a winter beer, if I do say so myself.  So, I was interested in finding [...]

Avery Brewing Co. Hog Heaven Barleywine

For some reason I was in the mood for a barleywine this evening. I’d never had the Avery Brewing Co.’s attempt at the barleywine and to be honest I had heard nothing about this particular beer. I just knew that some of the Avery stuff I’ve had in the past was amazing [...]

An oldy, but a goody.

Today’s installment of Beer and Comics brings you Chimay Red.  Chimay Red, is the baby bear of the Chimay family.  Weighing in at a mere 7% by volume, it is the trappist equivalent of water.  However, what trappist monks deem as water, the rest of us should revere as the holy blood of the great [...]

In which Ian drinks beer at Dragonmead and Kuhnhenn

So this weekend my girlfriend Jo and I went out to Detroit. We needed some time away from Lansing, and decided that a beer trip would be in order. We were looking into a tour at New Holland, but their brewery is closed for upgrades, so we started looking at the other side of the [...]