Short’s Black Cherry Porter

So Brian and I haven’t been the most diligent about blogging lately, something I’ve been meaning to remedy. What better way to get things rolling again is with a beer from Short’s Brewing. Joe Short is a guy not much older than us who makes incredible beers and seems to love trying new things. Here [...]

Shorts Smoked Apple Ale

I feel bad I can’t give you a picture, but I need to describe this beer. Poured like any other ale, maybe a little on the lighter side. Orange-ish. 0.5 cm head, pure white. Smells like apples and funk. I was confused, momentarily by this. Then again, green apples smell a tad bit funky, so [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

NEW SHORTS

Wow, I’m pretty pumped about this. Cup A Joe, Kind Ale, Mystery Stout, Uncle Steve’s, Liberator, Uber Goober, PB & J, and Good Humans all in bottles for the first time. Had they included Rich’s Rye (my favorite Short’s beer), I would have been in heaven. Read more about it at MLive’s Kalamabrew.