A New Year: Time for New Beer!

Fellow Beer-o-phites,
A new year is upon us and it is time to redouble our efforts to leave no beer untasted.

Personally I will be moving soon to a new house and plan on stocking it with all the necessary equipment to take the world by storm with my own hoppy creations.

I also promise some new reviews coming soon. As of late I have been pursuing one of my other hobbies that doesn't mix so well with beer, that would be firearms.
With some of my new reviews I will address what some of you have said is lacking in this blog: crappy beers of the South.

Until later, stay hoppy my friends.

The Good Company Ingredient?

So we all have our favorite beers for different occasions. There is a beer we love in the summer, a post workout beer, a beer-and-pizza beer, and the list goes on. But is it possible that having good friends around can make a subpar beer taste really good? Over this Thanksgiving holiday I defiantly drank my fair share of beer, good and bad, as well as other wonderful intoxicants. But what was different about this thanksgiving was the situation. If you know me well enough you know that it's been a while since I have been able to tip back a few with some on my best friends due to the game of geographical hide and seek our benevolent employer has played with us.  Thanks to some traveling on the part of three of them we managed to do that again for the first time in a while.  Now getting away from her background and back to the topic at hand.

One night we decided that we wanted to relive some of the 213 glory days and picked up some hop product in these nice little compact metal cylinders. Back in college during our beer or bust, yet busted wallet days, we drank a lot of what we decided was the best bang for our buck: Milwaukee's Best Ice. I mean when you're a broke college student how can you beat a 30 pack for 13 bucks, and it packs 5.9% ABV in there! Well unable to find our old standby we grabed a package of Milwaukee's Best PREMIUM. Which turns out after some research to just be Milwaukee's Best with a package and marketing makeover, but whatever. The point is that none of it made it to the pong table. We drank all of it and enjoyed it, and we were sober when we started. Now no one can say this is a good beer compared to what I usually drink so that's definitely not it. I full and well believe right now that the friends I was surrounded by made all the difference in how enjoyable those beers were. Now do I dare try drinking the Beast alone? We shall see.

Stupid Real Life.

Friends, I have again been remiss in posting up new reviews. I have several in various stages of production and promise I'll provide you with some new bloviating and obviously biased commentary on our favorite suds soon. I have been unfortunately busy and distracted by real life things that are not allowing me to spend time being distracted by the better things in life like beer!

97% humidity and no chance of relief.

Hello again fellow beer-leats I have been remiss in posting up any recent review but I promise I'll get back on to quickly falling off the wagon again soon. Its fall down here in the dirty south and while it was nice for a couple weeks its now 97% humidity, with a 100% chance of swamp-ass. I have been informed by some of our fortune friends sill in the motherland that its perfect Porter weather - 50 degrees and raining. oh how those of us banished from the land of beer and more beer do envy you.

In an attempt to try to imagine I'm in a place that actually has seasons again I'm going to try to make it my quest to find a decent pumpkin spice ale around here somewhere so I can reminisce about harvest season in the North West.

Though as I was leaving work today I had a short talk with an older gentleman who brews his own, and he said that with his recipe if you're not careful it quickly approaches 14% ABV!!!! He also said he has a recipe book full of about 10 years worth of work he would be willing to share....I might have a new friend.