305. Kingfisher Brewing – Kingfisher Premium Lager Beer
I’m in Miami this week for work, and when we wrapped up for the day, we went for lunch. I have had almost no experience with Indian food, so when my coworker suggested it, I thought I’d give it a try. We went to Guru in Miami Beach. I started with this Kingfisher Premium, an Indian beer, and then had the chicken tikka masala. The food was pretty good, and I enjoyed the opportunity to try something different. Location:...
300. König Brauerei – König Pilsener
My work travels have taken me from the Washington DC area to Miami, Florida this week. It was almost a year ago that I was in Miami for the same project for work. My coworker suggested a place to eat in Coral Gables, and we discovered it had closed, I suggested we try the Fritz & Franz Bierhaus, where we had dinner last year (and I had the Gösser Dark Beer and Köstritzer Schwarzbier). The list of Austrian and German beers is...
287. Kona Brewing – Longboard Island Lager
As I mentioned in my last post, I was out at the Hickory Street Bar and Grill in Austin, TX at SXSW. My new friend Robert and I enjoyed the view of Congress Ave. from their patio while we ate. After starting with a Kona Fire Rock Pale Ale, I thought I’d try something else from them along with my meal. The only other Kona beer on their menu was this one, so it made my decision easy. Numbers: 4.6% ABV, 18 IBUs, 13 degrees plato...
284. Grupo Modelo – Pacifico
We’re finished with the iMedia Brand Summit, and we’ve got a day off before the Social Business Summit, and then SXSW Interactive. Since it was a great afternoon, my new friend Robert suggested was try out Chuy’s Hula Hut for lunch. Since I’m a big fan of Mexican food, and I had a craving for a cerveza, I was in. I nostalgically became a big fan of this beer after my trip to Cabo San Lucas in 1999, where...
278. Asahi Breweries – Asahi Super Dry
As I mentioned in my last post, we’re out to dinner at Kobe in Bloomington, IL for my wife’s birthday. Before dinner, I started with a Tsingtao, and wasn’t thrilled with it. So for my next drink, I went for the Asahi. We continued to watch the show and I had this beer with my dinner. Numbers: 5% ABV Appearance & Aroma: It was very clear and was golden-yellow in color. The head was bright white with some big...
277. Tsingtao Brewery – Tsingtao
Today is my wife’s birthday, and to celebrate, we went out to Kobe Steakhouse here in town for dinner and a “show.” It’s usually fairly entertaining, although they’ve got the same gimmicks at all of these types of places. Since we were celebrating, it was a chance to have a beer, and a unique one that I could add to the list. Numbers: 4.8% ABV Appearance & Aroma: It was in the bottle here, but I...
252. JOS. Schlitz / Pabst – Schlitz
This was one of the specials tonight at Legends, and several people were having them. So, I thought, despite the fact that this would be another pale brew from a big brewery, I’d add it to the list. The label was the same as the old school labels, proclaiming this is, “The beer that made Milwaukee famous.” It was a bright yellow color and extremely clear in the glass. There was a decent, half-inch thick, bright...
245. Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg – 2009 Samichlaus Classic Bier
I mentioned a few weeks back that the presentation at our local homebrew club meeting was holiday beers. This beer was one of the samples, and I knew I had to pic up a bottle. As I learned that the Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson, had written about this beer – the strongest lager in the world, at 14% ABV, it is aged for a year from St. Nicholas day. The bottle reaffirms hist story, saying, “Bottled only once a year on...
235. Moylan’s – White Christmas Spiced Winter Lager Draft
After a great Christmas party with the ABNormal brewers on Saturday night, we’re back at it again tonight at our monthly meeting at Fat Jack’s in downtown Bloomington. They usually have some decent beers on tap, so it’s a chance to add another one to the list. In the spirit of the season, and our meeting (seasonal beers), I decided to try the Moylan’s White Christmas lager. It was light orange in the color...
175. Great Divide Brewing – Hoss Rye Lager Draft
A friend from the ABNormal Brewers gave me a call and said that he was also out in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival. He was also interested in checking out Great Divide, so I grabbed another beer and a chair and waited for him to come by. The Hoss Rye lager was clear and red in color, not reddish, but red – the reddest beer I’ve ever seen. There was, as you can see, an amazingly large and creamy white head,...
105. Full Sail Bewing – Session Black Lager
It’s my last night in Hood River, and very, very early tomorrow morning I head to Portland to brew at Full Sail’s Riverplace location. So, before I left Hood River, I thought I’d step right behind my hotel and enjoy a Full Sail Session Black Lager while the sun set over the Columbia River Gorge. This is a beautiful place that I’ll always remember and I couldn’t think of a better place to do this review....
101. Full Sail Brewing – Dunkopple Draft
It was another incredible day at Full Sail Brewing. Today I helped out in the cellar area, cleaning, moving hoses, transferring beer, transferring yeast, etc. Then I got to move back up to the brew deck to help brew the IPA – including dumping in over 260 lbs of hops (and those were just the hops added at the end of the boil). Since brewmaster Jamie Emmerson had sat down with me yesterday and gone over all of Full Sail’s...
