What have you tried this year that you recommend trying. What should be skipped. So far I’ve struck out with Starbucks Christmas blend and Pepsi Holiday Spice. Not much luck in the beer department either. The pannetonne...

's barrel-aged beers. They’re in small bottles, and are a great Bay Area brewer. Look for the brandy barrel-aged old ale, and the bourbon barrel-aged barleywine. North Coast is another good NorCal brewer, their Old Stock Ale...

I had my first barrel-aged beer recently and really enjoyed it; it was made by allagash and they distribute fairly widely. I think the one I had was the musette. http://www.allagash.com/beer.htm it definitely tasted woodier, a...

sweetness and roast in the Dubbel with an earthy venison preparation. Two beers came with dessrt, a Bitterseeet chocolate Brownie disk: "Old Conundrum" differently aged in a new, charred oak barrel, redolent of good oakiness and...

bottled beer. Their food is good, too. Up the hill from the area where you are, in Kearny Mesa, is O’Brien’s Pub. One of the best beer selections in town, and relatively kid friendly. Pizza Port, either Carlsbad or...

Hey Gary, as far as I know weiss beers are pretty volatile, because of the active yeast in the mix. They change quickly with age, so your pint at the Victory sounds like a typical bottom of the barrel pour. It depends how quickly...

it in oak barrels! .... oh look, this has 9 million IBU!). I was at a brewer’s dinner last night (pretty things beer in cambridge,ma) and while I otherwise enjoyed it, I kept getting a bit annoyed at how the one thing...

This place is going to be hardly divey. The Reel Bar had an entertainment license... but I think new owners decided to stick with the beer and food instead of entertainment.

, Rainier, Olympia— the list goes seemingly on forever. And they have, what, less than 4% of the US beer market? 30 years ago, those brands under one umbrella company would have dwarfed A-B- 90 million barrels to their 39....

To paraphrase Dennis Hopper: "Louche? F*** that Sh*t! Pabst Blue Ribbon!" Actually, revealing my unfortunate Texas past — might I submit Lone Star and Pearl for cheap plonk beers in the Southwest. A jaunt eastward on I-10...

It’s Denny's Beer Barrel pub in Clearfield, just off I-80. Below is a link to some photo pages a visitor to the public posted on a website. They apparently also offer a six-pounder. Link:...

Im headed to Burlington Vermont in 2 weeks- we’ll be hitting a bunch of breweries, but beer alone can’t hold us over. Any recommendations? Any favorite breweries? We’ll be headed over to New hampshire too, via...

around to several breweries and pubs. They tackle one city for each 1/2 hour show, and they spend it interviewing bartenders, cooks, brewers – and drinking a lot. They rate each interviewee from 1 to 5 barrels, and declare...

As you’ve asked some pretty broad questions, I’ll address the beer. About 30 minutes south of Cannon is a wonderful brew pub - Pelican – in Pacific City. It’s right on the shore where a lot of surfers put...

I’m still amazed at the number of people who, despite the great amount of beer education done by you, MJ, and countless others, still don’t understand that the color of beer has almost nothing to do with how it...