Posted on May 14, 2010 by mike
Schells Brewery has been around since 1860 and has a very interesting back story. I was lucky enough to spend a night with Schell’s President Ted Marti while we ate dinner and talked about beers. One of the beers he mentioned was their specialty 150th Anniversary beer, the “Hopfenmalz”. This beer was voted by 1,000′s of people to be the…
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Posted on May 7, 2010 by mike
I continue on the IPA path for at least one more week. We will see where next week lands us. Today I’m going to introduce to you a brewery that you may have never heard of, Big Sky Brewing out of Missoula, MT. This brewery is one of the closests breweries to my house, which is still a good 800 miles away. Started in 1995, this brewery is only 15…
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Posted on April 30, 2010 by mike
These past few weeks have been nothing but IPA’s, but I think its good to center around single style right now, just so that we can really compare, side by side, the differences between them all. I really don’t know why I chose IPA to start with. It could be because there are so many craft beer drinkers that IPA is just their beer of choice, and I…
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Posted on April 23, 2010 by mike
I know what you are saying, “Another IPA???” Bare with me though. Over the past 2 weeks I’ve tried 2 different IPA’s in brew reviews and though I liked both, I didn’t think they suited my fancy like other beers do. Or, I just haven’t found the one yet that is going to make me an IPA lover. Also, this weekend I’m helping build a wire grid system on…
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Posted on April 16, 2010 by mike
Episode 013 When thinking about what beer to review this week I headed over to the fridge to see what is cued up. I ended up seeing Bell’s Two Hearted Ale first and thought to myself, “Hmmm, I did an IPA last week, let’s see what this one tastes like.” I found a lot of similarities between this weeks review beer and last weeks. I’m starting to…
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Posted on April 8, 2010 by mike
Happy National Beer Day my friends! Whether or not you are reading this on April 7th or not we can always celebrate beer. What better way to celebrate it than with an inspirational story? Surly Brewing Company is a typical story, but is fresh and inspiring. The owner Omar started as a homebrewer, just like me, just like some of you, and eventually…
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