Posted in ale, Great Divide Brewing, fruit beers on January 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Making a good raspberry beer is tough to do. I tried making a raspberry wheat a couple times back in my homebrewing days, and while it wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t particularly good. Raspberry beers seem to turn out either too sour or too sweet. Balancing the raspberry with the rest of the flavors seems to […]
Posted in pale ale, Great Divide Brewing, extra special bitter (esb) on December 30th, 2006 1 Comment »
*Note: The following review should be read using your internal Andy Rooney of 60 minutes voice*
Have you ever noticed how the styles of beers are known by so many different names, even though they’re practically the same thing? I have. Take wheat beers. Even though they’re all made from wheat some are called wheat […]
Posted in pale ale, Great Divide Brewing on December 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Great Divide Brewery is located in Denver, so it seems fitting that they named their Pale Ale after the mile-high city. Great Divide won a gold medal for this brew (they call it DPA for short) at the 1999 Great American Beer Festival, as well as a bronze in 2002. They also won a gold […]
Posted in miscellany, brewing, beer, Great Divide Brewing, Breckenridge Brewery, New Belgium Brewery on December 14th, 2006 2 Comments »
No, I’m not writing about Busch. I’m getting back to my roots. I’m keepin’ it real. You see, my love of craft brews goes back to the days when the wife and I lived in Colorado. When I was just a young, poor, Iowa-bred hick, I used to drink all the typical big-brewery stuff: Bud, […]
