I convinced Ian to get this guy because of my love of Brutal Bitter.  We’d never had it before, so we decided to give ‘er a go. The Pour:  It poured considerably more cloudy than I had expected. It had a pretty dense, foamy head that stuck around through almost the whole glass.  It also [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]