I finally got around to sampling the new Leinenkugel Classic Amber. Leinenkugel is not a beer I would normally pick up from the shelves at my local candy store. The name sounds so European that you would never guess that it is made in Wisconsin. (German in origin if you want to look it up)
The beer [...]
December 22, 2008 - 5:50 AM
Tags: anderson valley, appearance, aroma, beer review, beer tasting, blind tasting, brooklyn brewery, butternuts, dogfish head, flavor, great divide, hops, ipa, middle ages brewing, mouth feel, Reviews, rogue, smaual smith's, stone brewing, stoudt's brewery, weyerbacher
Posted in Atmosphere, Beer, Reviews | 6 comments
Back in October we tried an Octoberfest bake off (a taste test) and it wasn’t that successful. Nice.. not thrillin’, but nice. So when a different group of my friends suggested a blind IPA taste testing, I wasn’t very optimistic; but of course I was game anyway.
Surprise! Not only was it a great evening, the [...]
April 23, 2008 - 8:45 PM
Tags: web 2.0, world wide web
Posted in Beer, Resources | 6 comments
Ummm…what?
Beer 2.0. You know, Web 2.0 technology focused on beer. We’ve mentioned other beer-focused Web 2.0 sites before.
Well, here’s a few more my fellow technophiles might want to look into.
Blogged – www.blogged.com
Blogged is a directory of, well, blogs. In particular I draw your attention to All > Family & Home > Cooking > Drinks > [...]
November 14, 2007 - 10:31 PM
Tags: beer ratings, web 2.0
Posted in Beer, Resources | No comments
I don’t really know what “Web 2.0” is, but I’ll bet this site is part of it.
YourBeers Beer Guide
It is, very simply, a place to rate beers. Anyone can join, add a beer, or three, or a hundred, and rate them. You can also comment on them, post in the forums, and look through the [...]
September 30, 2007 - 9:11 PM
Tags: myspace, social network
Posted in Beer, Off-topic | 2 comments
I am not big fan of MySpace. Maybe I’m too old. Yeah, I’m probably too old.
There are a significant number of beer fans there, though. Such as BeerSpace.
RateBeer has a MySpace page, as does Beer Advocate.
How about you? Do you have a MySpace page?
(via My Wild Crazy Space)
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A website to [...]
Love it or hate it, think it’s an ego-stroker for pop-culture geeks or the most democratic application of human knowledge, or something in between, there is no denying the success of Wikipedia. While the problems you would expect from a site that anyone can edit, like vandalism, slander, and complete misinformation are rampant and continually [...]
August 11, 2006 - 10:00 PM
Tags: web 2.0, world wide web
Posted in Beer, Resources, Reviews | 3 comments
If you pay any attention at all to technology news, one of the big buzzwords right now is Web 2.0. For the uninitiated, Web 2.0 refers to the “next generation” of web services, where content is mostly created by individuals or collaboratively (rather than being created by big companies) and the web experience is more [...]