(The girlfriend and I had this on Friday night, but I’ve been away from the internet, and only just not getting around to posting it.) I like Goose Island. On the whole, they make good beer in a variety of styles, and their regular offerings are great examples of what a brewery of their size [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ian: So Brian and I haven’t blogged Duvel before, which is kind of weird, ’cause we’ve both had it before. Tonight we remedy that. Aroma: Sweet, light estery. A cloud of bananas and rotting fruit. I’m not sure that sounds as delicious as this smells, but its not too far off. Brian: As for the [...]

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 [...]