Tonight’s Tasting: Cain F and Saison Rue Belgian-Style Ale

  Saison Rue Belgian-Style Ale, made with Rye and Brettanomyces What a find in my own backyard.  Just a month ago I discovered and wrote about the wonders of a yeast called Brettanomyces, or “Brett” for short, that is normally viewed as a contaminant.  As the Orval beer I was drinking demonstrated, this “contaminant” can […]

Tonight’s Tasting: Old Scratch Amber Lager and Gurkha Titan

You probably never saw it, but there was a relatively short-lived series on the USA Network called Saving Grace.  It was a cop show starring Holly Hunter as Grace, with the twist that Grace is being visited by an angel, who is attempting to save Grace from her self-destructive ways.  Anyway, in one of the […]

The Things I’ll Do for Beer

Do we file this under “the things I’ll do for beer”, or perhaps, “waaay to much time on my hands”? The Coors Light Home Draft system I reviewed a few days ago had grown pathetic in its efforts to provide me with a draft.  You start the tapper by twisting a cylindrical knob that releases […]