By jason on Mar 5, 2009 in Cellaring News and Events, Featured | 7 Comments
Hello!
Just a quick follow-up on my recent post on commercial sources for vintage beer. Aaron, in the comments of that article, mentioned finding several aged brews in State Line Liquors in Elkton, Md including a 2000 JW Lees Harvest Ale and a 1989(!) Thomas Hardy’s. Also, not to bring them up yet AGAIN, but keep [...]
By jason on Feb 24, 2009 in Featured, Reviews | 3 Comments
Hello everyone. I’m hoping to get one of these tasting updates banged out each week until I finally get current. It’s going to be a long haul, but I’ll get there.
In the meantime, I want to make sure everyone knows just how well the Le Merle from North Coast brewing has been doing - it’s [...]
By jason on Feb 14, 2009 in Cellaring News and Events, Featured, Messages to Readers | 4 Comments
Hello all! I noticed a couple of the online beer merchants have some aged brews in stock right now. Since questions asking about where you can purchase aged beers are among the most common inquiries I get, I thought I’d take a moment and point them out to you.
First off, check out the Vintage/Rare section [...]
By jason on Feb 11, 2009 in Featured, Messages to Readers | 7 Comments
…. well maybe not vacation exactly. Call it a little break, a little time off to focus on some personal things and recharge the ol’ posting batteries at the same time. Thanks to all of you who wrote to check up on me, I’ll be replying to your emails soon.
As you can imagine, I have [...]
By jason on Oct 29, 2008 in Beer Tastings, Featured, Reviews | 3 Comments
Here’s the first half of September’s tastings (since you asked for them James!). Part 2 will be following up soon! As seemingly always, the results were a bit of a mixed bag….
Middle Ages Druid Fluid ‘07 (Six Months) - There’s no mistaking this for a Double IPA now! It’s transforming into a fantastically balanced barleywine.
Southern [...]
By jason on Oct 15, 2008 in Featured, Links | 1 Comment
Hello everyone!
Lisa and I spent the past weekend celebrating our anniversary with a couple of friends up in the wilds of the Adirondack mountains. The reason I’m mentioning it here is that we stumbled on a newly opened restaurant in the sleepy little town of North Creek. It’s named BarVino, and despite it being a [...]
By jason on Oct 4, 2008 in Cellaring Science, Featured, Fun | 10 Comments
It sounds incredible, but that’s what entrepreneur and inventor Casey Jones claims to be able to do! His device, the “Ultrasonic Wine Ager” claims to be able to take any alcohol that tastes better aged and give it a vintage-like taste in under an hour.
After just a half hour or so, a seven dollar bottle [...]
By jason on Sep 29, 2008 in Beer Tastings, Featured, Reviews | 0 Comments
Hello everyone!
Hey, I’m only a month late with my August tasting updates - that’s not TOO bad, right? It’s hard to believe that as long as I get September’s tastings up within a week or two I might actually get caught up with my notes.
Anyway, check out my August tastings below. There were a lot [...]
By jason on Sep 10, 2008 in Beer Cellars and Vintage Beer, Featured | 11 Comments
I’ve been asked a few times recently about the Brew Basement beer cellar and how it’s looking these days. Always eager to please, I took a bunch of pics and I thought I’d bore you to death with a few of them.
Here’s where all the magic happens. OK, so it’s a bit nondescript, but it’s [...]
By jason on Sep 2, 2008 in Featured, Fun, Messages to Readers | 5 Comments
Hi everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend.
It was labor day weekend for those in the US, which meant Lisa and I didn’t have to go into work on Monday. The day off came at a perfect time for my wife and I as August has been a bit of a tough month [...]