This week a classic APA from the largest American owned brewery in St. Louis, Schlafly Beer. This American Pale Ale is dry hopped directly into the finished beer boost the fresh fruity, flavor and aroma of American hops.

OK, so I’m walking down the beer aisle and I catch a glance at a six pack of cans with 2 pigs bumping bellies, so I say to myself, I gotta try this, it’s either going to be really good or really bad right? The beer we’re talking about this week is lovingly call Porkslap [...]

2009 was another great year for the American Craft Beer movement, and although we don’t like to say we have our “favorites”, we do have particular beers that have left quite an impression on us for the given year. 2008 found us all enjoying similar beers, but 2009 found us liking vastly different ones! Whether [...]

This week we sample an unusual beer to many: Left Hand Brewing Company’s Smoke Jumper Imperial Smoked Porter! This is dark and nicely smoked off the nose. They use hot and cold smoked barley malt to give it it’s incredible flavor. There is also a nice sweetness coming from molasses, and a nice hoppiness as [...]

The fine folks at Redhook recently sent us a very limited edition of their barley wine called Treblehook. This is a very complex beer that was brewed over time and great care. It was actually dry hopped vigorously for six months, but don’t be fooled, the malt flavors still shine through. This is another fine [...]