Dark Horse Reserve Special Black Bier

What do you know? Its black. Its super black. Black as night.
Did I mention that its BLACK?
There’s no foolin’, Dark Horse (Marshall, Michigan) named this beer properly. Reserve Special Black Bier Ale.
Its interesting in that they don’t actually consider it a stout. It could probably pass as one, though. Its dark, it has a [...]

Michigan Beer Month

So, thanks to the Michigan Brewer’s Guild, July is Michigan Beer Month!
In honor of that, I would like to point out that you can see all of our Michigan Beer reviews here.
As part of Michigan Beer Month, I will also be reviewing a whole slew of Michigan beers. Some are new, some are old favorites, [...]

MBG Winter Beer Fest recap

So like I said before, Brian and I got tickets to the Michigan Brewer’s Guild Winter Beer Festival this past weekend. It was a blast when we got to go with some friends a few years back (when it was here in Lansing), but it was as much fun now, even though it was just [...]

Imperial Showdown

Last week, I did a favor for all of humanity, and I tried Founders Devil Dancer and Dark Horse’s Double Crooked Tree back to back in an effort to compare the two. There will obviously be some naysayers claiming that one cannot fairly pass judgement on the second after finishing the first, but these [...]

Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree

If i could have my choice of beverages in the world, they would go like this:

Imperial IPAs/Imerial Rye IPAs
Diet Coke/Pepsi
Imperial Stout
Blue Monster
Quadrupels
Tripels
IPA
Stout
(big) Doppelbocks
Other Ales

This would make one realize why its no wonder I love double crooked tree so much.  SO much in fact, it warrants a full description.  First, be careful removing the cap.  That [...]