North Coast: Old Stock Ale 2007

Today I got back to running on my own.  I ran a nice 7.25 miles or so.  Felt great.  I’ll be sore tomorrow, but it was time well spent.  As such, I needed to shower more or less immediately.  Now, my favorite thing in the world is drink beer in the shower.  I was running, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If Abe Lincoln were a beer…

President Lincoln has gone down in history as the Great Emancipator, no?  And what is another word for Emancipator???  Liberator.  What has Short’s Brewing done?  Made a great beer called the Liberator.  Great Liberator = Great Emancipator = Abe Lincoln.  Thus, this is Abe Lincoln beer.
So, we’ve all known for some time that Ian and [...]