Insanely Bad Elf… more like, “Delightfully good ale.”

So, there has been wonderful happening in my life this week, which I will disclose at a later date.  As such, the wife and I have decided to celebrate.  I headed down to our local market to go grab some wine, but as it happens, Colasanti’s closes at 7 pm.  I got pwn3d’d.  However, there [...]

Urthel Samaranth Quadrium Ale

Today has been a somewhat productive day.   I managed to convince myself, and hopefully my professor who studies fly olfaction, that flies are a sensible model system for olfaction.  I also went for a brief run and ran a massive hill 4 times to work on form, and hill climbing.  This run indicated that my [...]

Bell’s Rye Stout

So this one is new for us. Neither Brian nor I have had it in the past, and it just came out this year, so we’re about it find out if Bell’s can once again live up to their reputation for excellent stouts.
Brian says if this beer was a chord, it would be a Cmaj7. [...]

Stone Vertical Epic ‘09

This is a beer in a series of beers that Stone as put out called the Vertical Epic series. Now, I haven’t had all of them, but I hear the ‘07 wasn’t very good. The ‘08 was amazing, however.
This year’s edition is almost a smoked porter, but made with a belgian yeast, and tangerine [...]

Brugge Tripel de Ripple

So I’d seen this beer in Indiana, and since its from Terre Haute, that’s no surprise. I didn’t pick it up at the time, but my girlfriend, Jo, stopped into a store in Indiana on her way back from Chicago, and decided to grab a bottle when she saw that it was on sale.
First [...]