Closed

Untill further notice, the beer blog is closed. i'll be starting another blog for something else, but in the mean time, sorry.

Anchor steam

So as i was walking around party source getting some beers for the night, i noticed my old home town of san franciscos staple beer. Anchor steam". Figured what the hell, $2 couldn't get me much more now a days besides a pack of gum and almost a gallon of gas; What could go wrong? a bit actually.... got home and popped the top, not much in the way of smell, left me a bit worried. Tried my first taste, and oh wow. Not my kind of beer! dark, skunky, not enough carbonation. Drank the rest of the bottle (mostly 'cuz i'm cheap and wanted a buzz). I Did however notice it got a bit better toward the bottom after my taste buds grew accustomed to the taste, but it wasn't enough to really make me YEARNING for more of this beer.

But it has however been a staple and brewed since 1896. So for the people that like this beer, you probably will not like this blog :)

All in all, not bad, i'd try it on tap just to get the pureness of it, but i doubt i'll be in san francisco anytime soon!

Anchor steam Brewing company

www.anchorbrewing.com/

@ the party source

www.thepartysource.com

Boulder beer Sweaty Betty

So i went out "nerding" today and grabbed some new toys for my laptop. External HDD case, wireless mouse and a USB hub, so i figured the best way to celebrate is to get some good brews and blog about them? Correct you are!

So Kevin and myself went down to party source to get some alcohol, me being me of course i head to the cooled beer section. Notice a beer that i haven't had in quite sometime! Boulder beers (same company to bring all things great, Mojo, Hazed and infused, Mojo Risin' etc) Sweaty betty! last time i had this beer was quite ago, ontap and at old chicago on the greatness that is their beer tour. So i pick up this beer for $2, open it and that familiar smell comes about which all boulder beers give off (hard to describe, you'd have to try one) so my first sip, greatness in a bottle, yet it is on the heavy side/end of the night type of brew so i might not be finishing too many more. Quite creamy and smooth (like guiness with a tad more carbonation, yet not DARK). It is a wheat beer, has a slight/barely noticable banana type after taste, with a little skunkyness but not enough to kill your taste buds.

If you see this beer i highly reccomend you pick one up to try it out. No one yet has to say "thats not good" or "nasty!". Always gets a seal of approval and a nod of "not bad, not bad at all"

Boulder beer brewing company

www.boulder beer.com

@ the party source

www.thepartysource.com

Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat

So for my dear friends 25th birthday last night, we went out to one of our usual spots over in mason ohio called "tabbys". Very chill bar, sand vollyball pit outside, a large patio, single pool table and a digi jukebox that has a fairly decent selection of music! so i was having my normal killians and miller lite (cheap and not horrible) i see this beer tap that looks like a big blue canoe that has a orange coming out of it... shocked and surprised by this act of insanity! (from a marketing perspective it caught my attention! so props to them!).
Out came this $4.50 pint that tasted quite sweet (almost too sweet for me really) but not bad, seemed to mellow itself out after a few sips (probably because i still had miller lite and killians on my pallette) and during those sips when it stated being less sweet i started enjoying this light now-not-so-sweet-but-nice-summer ale. after that i started noticing this strange hint of anise... now as weird as this sounds in beer, it went REALLY well together. and it did not hit you when you were drinking it was their trick, caught up to your tastebuds 5-10 seconds after each sip. kind of like a nice treat and pallette cleanser after each sip.

Leinenkugel's

http://www.leinie.com/

@ Tabbys

http://www.tabbysamericangrill.com/

Boddingtons Pub Ale

I Had the pleasure of trying this delicious brew. It's going to be hard to describe in words how this beer was, frothy?... no... thick? no... light?... no..

In order for you to understand my dumbfoundedness on this loveliness. Iwas sitting there (no way! right?) at o'neals tavern with a few friends playing some billards. Ran out of my usual so i went to the bartender to try something new. Saw this strange beer tap which said "pub ale". Figured what the hell. Now this is the strange part, when she poured this into a glass, it looked like an amber guiness... it had the same spout, the same beer tap at a 90* angle. made the same microscopic bubbily spin that guiness does. only this was a very light and slightly amberish ale.

so i sit down to this glass while it is still trying to get all the tiny tiny tiny bubbles to the top to create this perfect head (picture as shown). as soon as i tried this, it became heavy for a quick second, then a moment later, it was very light, not too sweet, not too bitter. almost a perfect "end of the night" type of beer that can clear your pallete and get you ready for work the next day. not too much in the way of carbination (again, picture a light guiness), just an extrodinaly smooth, very light, not crisp, perfect for relaxing and enjoying the end of the night.

Recomendation. Do not start with this beer and do not go in the middle with this beer, it does give a slightly heavy feeling on your stomach after about 1/2 a pint.

Boddingtons (no website???!! wiki will do)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boddingtons

@ o'neils tavern (no website either?! i'm goin to classy joints!)

http://www.zipscene.com/venues/view/559

Avery IPA, can i marry you?

To start this new blog out, i'm getting married! her name is avery, dark skinned, got a bubbly personality, great on the lips over and over again. ALWAYS wanting you for more... my kinda lady! but oh lord, is she a mean bish the next morning after a few goes! if only beer was a real girl (backward alcoholic pinocchio?) i would be in my dream state consistantly everynight, and she'd also run me out of money considering i could go for like 1 or 2... or 53 goes every night...This next statement i thought would never EVER come out beyond these northwest tainted lips... something so detrimental to what i thought as "there will never be anything as good as northwest beer"... i was wronged, over, and over, and over again.. these words i never want to repeat... IT WAS BETTER THEN WIDMER HALO!... there i said it, happy?! i'm not!

So this beer was so great, so wonderful, so delicious, so astonishing that i would get in my car, waste $10 in gas, spend $20 for a few 12ozers just to sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. It's VERY hoppy, yet not bitter beer face (although i swear, it's got more hops then mojo risin'), it's absolutely sweet, not your usual IPA, but you couldn't classify this anywhere else! this has left me dumbfounded. If you see a single, 6er, 1/2BBL, get it, and dont ever leave your house!

Avery Brewing company

http://www.averybrewing.com/

@ jungle jims

http://www.junglejims.com/

Boulder beer fails to please

Remember when i said "more to come on this later" of the failure that boulder beer did?
so flash myself back to a few weeks ago. I Was reading this magazine article about said beer "refreshing, very hoppy, blah blah effing blah". Made it sound delicious. So i saw this beer while walking around party souce the other day. Grabbed a single for $2, took it home and instantly opened it. First sniff smelled a little dark for my taste (that kind of musty "brown" smell, like a decent amber ale) so i took a swig and let it sit on my pallet for a moment. Some beers are weird for the first few strange faced sips. so i took another, and another one, and i never seemed to get any more glorious. So i ended up giving this to my friend who loves ambers (widmer drop top ring a bell?)
would i buy this again? nope, i highly doubt it. considering i can pick up hazed and infused and mojo right next to this one.

Boulder beer company
http://www.boulderbeer.com/
@ the party source
http://www.thepartysource.com/

Boulder beer strikes at rich!

A Brewery like boulder beer brewery so far has never EVER left me disappointed (more to come on that statement later).

This is another prime example! Mojo risin' IPA, basically it almost seems like they were makin a great batch of their greatness that is called Mojo IPA... and someone had a little too much of the batch and accidentally dumped a double load of cascade hops into the mix, the resulting screw up? delicious hoppy malty gorgeousness that i tried last night. Absolutely bursting with hops, just barely too much on the malt for my tastebuds, but i couldn't help but smile right after i sipped to the very last bubbly droplet... lets just cross our double visioned fingers and hope this is not a limited edition (and they sell it in more places then just KY!) (and it's 10% alcohol... malt liquor barely touches that and tastes like heavy liquefied beer)

Boulder beer company

http://www.boulderbeer.com/

@ the party source

http://www.thepartysource.com/

White hawk IPA

Only one thing could leave me this excited that i have to write about it in a hungover stooooooper! a GREAT IPA!

while IPAs normally hit the spot, taste wonderful, and leave me yerning for more after i've hit the deep end of my drunken self. Nothing since halo and hazed and infused has ever left me this warm and fuzzy... It's called sexy velvet IPA... only i'm completely joking. It's called White hawk IPA. Never did i think something from the small area of new york could ever leave me beat, wondering what happened last night, with a headache, smiling and absolutely loving life all in the same night. It tasted almost identical to widmer brothers halo, there is no way else to explain it! an explosive burst of hops, just enough malt to not leave an aftertaste of caramalized beer on you pallet. All in all wonderfulness in a bottle that i haven't tasted since i left home.

White hawk IPA

http://www.mendobrew.com/home.html

@ the comet

http://www.cometbar.com/

Asian beer that did it wrong?

Usually i'm a fan of EVERY asian beer i've tried.. EVER!

However this one was a bit on the werid side (not the asians, they would never do something strange... furries ring a bell? hentai?... never mind)

So while i was enjoying the loveliness that is raw octopus and yellowtail tuna... our waitress came around with the menu. Seeing a beer i had never tried nor heard of i opted for a large ASAHI. mistake!

It was strange, tasted like a very bland, malty, seltzer water that left you extremely thirsty (????) it was was one of the more strange beers i had ever tried, then my friend pointed out the "EXTRA DRY BEER" on the label, and it all made sense.... just kidding, no it didn't.

After i was done gagging down this strange beer, i ordered a keiran ichiban and was back to my normal self of loving asain beer.

Asahi beer

http://www.asahibeerusa.com/

@ Dancing wasabi

http://dancing-wasabi.com/

a sorta local beer

Had a chance to try this beer on tap last night. While semi potent, it was lacking...... not sure what to say about it, lacking something... Really didn't hit the spot like a cloudy beer would (no american pie references people...) example, Widmer heffeweizen, blue moon etc etc...

Best way to discribe this beer? a cross between a really mild shock top and coors light with a tad of skunky-ness (not sure while all ya'll mid westerners like this skunky beer, leave that to the europeans).

Deffinatly not my bottle O beer, might have been better with some sort of sweet citrus added in, but i doubt i'd give it another try. Had a PBR right afterwords which DID however hit the spot...

You tried bells brewery. you tried.... A for effort, C for delivery.

Bells Brewery Oberon (bells beer, MI)

http://www.bellsbeer.com/

@the stand

http://www.thestandcincy.com/

Burger beer

I Would never ever joke about such things.

2 of my most favorite things listed on one can? it doesn't taste like burgers *sticky note for burger infused beer*.

However it has been a Cincinnati staple since 1880. So, i can't deny it's following that this strange pilsner has.

Has its lovelyness replaced Pabst? no way in hell.

However, Just like Pabst. It is crisp, light, refreshing. However imagine a bit of skunkyness like heinekin added to a PBR. All in all not horrible, however you can only really find it around cincinnati so i wont give it too much hell. (and for usually only $1.75 at a bar, i ain't gonna complain!)

And no Kevin, I Will not write about Morelin untill they make a decent beer.

LOCATION :

Everywhere arond the greater cincy area

Widmer exists in ohio!

Low and behold... a portland microbrew staple is found! hiding under my nose all along. I Saw the yellow box and immediatly did a little kooky dance in the asileway.

I'm guessing because anheuser busch is now distributing them throughout the USA (slowly i might add, but it's getting there!) so alot of people soon will enjoy a true northwest (not so micro anymore) microbrew.

I Only found 2 brews from widmer within this small midwest area called Cincinnati (aka, domestic pilsner central!)

which did not give a good review because it is not a TRUE hefeweisen. which it really isn't, true hefe is a tad bit on the whiter side of the beer realm with a skunky aftertaste.
Widmers version is more of a domestic/american wheat version with a citrus kick.
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/8/17


http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/8/46767

Ultimately a great pale ale. with some slight high on the hoppy side without a full blown IPA. Has a slight bitter citrus after taste, almost like a mild sweet grapefruit aftertaste.

Location :

KROGER -
4100 Hunt Road (513) 792-1500
Blue Ash OH 45236

The start!

So since obviously no where will ever be as good as it was back in the PNW for beer selections and microbrews. I Decided to start a blog for fellow beer entusiasts like myself who need something else besides the basic domestic piss water. (although, decent and cheap.. it's just there to get ya drunk!)

So this blog i'm sure will start slow as i get used to this whole blogging thing. but i do expect it to pick up once i find more beers around these here midwest parts!