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When I wrote this, there was little sunshine. So little, in fact, that I didn't get an outside shot. I normally don't let bad weather stop me from getting a shot, but this was a cold day, it was rainy, and I just didn't have it in me. As I post, it's a sunny day in the middle of summer. This would have been a better day for the review to take place. This is doing that thing where is looks really…
Will the second beer be the breakout hit? Well, it couldn't have been worse than the Rabbit that pooped in my mouth. That thing was so bad I can still taste it. I have since gone and looked at third party reviews, and I have no idea what the issue was. They taste something I did not. They didn't taste the horror that I did. The problem now is that I picked this up this beer in the same trip from…
I like hops. I usually like them in IPAs , but I am not going to frown upon them being added to a nice, crisp pilsner . Is this going to be one of those? Well, I think it has a good shot of being an excellent melding of more than one style. The crisp and relatively demure nature of a pilsner could really stand to be enliven to buy a hop or two. I don't know when they started dry hopping things,…
Another beer from the people who seem to love fishing more than I do. Maybe I should write these reviews from the perspective as someone either standing in waders or sitting in a boat. Well, I'm not doing either. I'm sitting on a deck, watching a scrapy dog play gleefully with a big, red ball. Am I having as much fun as those fishing guys? Well, I may never know. Is this a bit more orange than the…
Is it as smooth as glass? Is that how it got that name? Is it smooth like a glassy lake where you might go fishing (which is to say, less smooth than actual glass)? I mention fishing, as it really seems like the fine folks at Northwoods really like to fish, as I can recognize a fishing lure approximately 37% of the time, and their logo makes it particularly easy. Either way, I'm not fishing today.…
I like to think that, much like the old idea that you get chocolate milk by feeding chocolate to a cow, that these cows have had chocolate and rum fed to them. The question is if the use of "Tippy" is in place of "Tipsy" for any particular reason. I've heard stories about people tipping cows, but I suspect it's just an urban legend. Maybe there's already a Tipsy Cow Distillery. You know what?…
The brown ales have their work cut out for them. I'm just not a huge fan, they tend to be very bland, and it's hard to get excited about them. At 5.5% ABV , they aren't even bringing very much heft into the mix. But, Hi-Wire has few losses to their name and so many great beers that I just can't help thinking they're going to be the ones to crack this nut. I do not recall a brown ale that wouldn't…
This little brewery that could really enjoys making beer that I'm used to enjoying. It seems like picking an extra pale ale is kind of going a step further. I don't even recall the last time I had an extra pale ale , let alone liked one. It's certainly not a style most breweries go for, and there's probably a reason for that, despite the fact that I don't know what it is. But, these guys have…
Not sure why this is called 6-1. Maybe it has something to do with some road or something around Nolensville Tennessee, but I had initially assumed it was the ABV of the beer. This ABV is a much lower 4.5% , but that's still good for a low calorie beer. Maybe it's 61 calories? That would seem particularly low, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information on the can to indicate why they…
A zwickel is a kellerbier. What do either of those words mean? Look, I'm not fluent in German , and I've already done more homework for this by connecting those two words. What should I expect from this beer? Well, I'm thinking it'll be more than a bit German, and that might mean I wind up making a comment about the many afternoons I enjoyed with my brother in the Penn Brewery, smelling the wort,…
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