Continuing in the celebratory-if-not-exactly-a-holiday-beer vein, what could be more apt for Christmas week than a beer made in a monastery,… Read more »
Posts Tagged: California
TAP Beer(s) of the Week: Oh, Bring Us Some Clootie Dumpling…
In the middle of May, 1659, the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the following order: For preventing… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week 46: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
[Nov. 16, 2010]– Sure, I wish I’d been in Chico, California on Monday night, at the 30th Anniversary Party Sierra… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week: Brew Free or Die IPA
Nov. 2, 2010–If there are any liberals in Texas, they may be muttering the line I heard a lefty Phillies… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week: Anchor Porter
[Oct. 27, 2010] Let the games begin! It’s World Series time, so it seemed like a pretty good idea to… Read more »
CordeValle: Going Sideways on the Left Coast
There’s something entirely too benign about California weather that northeastern folk like me are well to be wary of. The… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week: Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
[March 15, 2010] There’s still snow on the ground here in Vermont, and Wednesday is St. Patrick’s Day, so it’s… Read more »
TAP Beer of the Week 7: Sierra Nevada Glissade
[Update: Glissade is, sadly, no longer being brewed. It has been replaced by Ruthless Rye.] Back to Sierra Nevada already?… Read more »
TAP Beer(s) of the Week: Lagunitas Pils and IPA
I’d heard a lot about Lagunitas, particularly its creative label writing and imaginative seasonal offerings and one-offs, such as the plan to release beers commemorating the 40th anniversaries of each album release by Frank Zappa.
TAP Beer of the Week 2: Life and Limb
Sierra Nevada linked up with the east coast star of innovative brewing, Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware, to produce Life and Limb, a lid-lifter of a beer that I cracked open as my first of 2010.