Another week and another Maui Brewing Company beer review with our good friend Dow Scoggins. This week we are discussing Maui Brewing Companies Big Swell IPA. As they say on their website, Big Swell is Big, Hoppy, Bold, Smooth, and Hoppy….did we mention Hoppy? Boy are they right! We found this one to be very [...]

In the summer it’s hot and drinking a heavy porter might not be the beer of choice. Recently it seems many breweries are coming out with summer beers that are crisp, light and refreshing – more importantly they are American Craft brewed. This week we try Lazy Magnolia Indian Summer Spiced Ale. This American style [...]

Beer America TV heads to Maui for this weeks episode, well, not really, but we get a little taste of Maui Brewing Company and its CoCoNut Porter. This is a special beer brewed with six varieties of malted barley, hops and hand-toasted coconut. It’s like drinking a porter while sitting on the beach – trust [...]

So you think you know what’s going on behind the American Craft Beer scene that we all love so much? Not so fast! As David Little and our resident brewer and Brewers Association board member John Pinkerton explain in this week’s episode of Beer America TV. “Beer Wars” gave us all some insight on what [...]

This week it’s yet another beer that defies style – Life and Limb. A collaboration beer between Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada, Life and Limb is a big complex beer that tastes like nothing we’ve tried in the past. It also is brewed using local ingredients from both the Calagione family farm and Grossman family [...]