Samuel Adams Infinium For the past couple of years, the Boston Beer Company and Germany’s Weihenstephan Brewery have joined forces to create what they characterized as an entirely new style of beer, a champagne-like ale called Infinium. Infinium comes in a 750 ml champagne bottle, complete with foil, wire and cork. The beer (champagne?) poured [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2012 by Aaron Morris
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Jubel 2010 Once a Decade Ale This waxed beauty from Bend, Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery has been sitting in my fridge since, well, 2010. It’s about a $13 bottle of beer so I suppose I kept putting it off for a special occasion. Tonight I felt like drinking it, and that was special occasion enough. The [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2012 by Aaron Morris
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Wow. I feel even better about being a beer drinker. I was cruising Netflix for something to watch, and came across a Discovery Channel documentary called How Beer Saved the World. If you haven’t seen it yet, it is well worth a look. Anthropologists had long believed that the first agricultural crop raised by humans was barley, [...]
Posted on December 14th, 2011 by Aaron Morris
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I’ve been to the Los Angeles Beer Festival at Union Station for the past two years, and it has proven to be very inconsistent. Last year it was nearly perfect. The festival is held at Union Station in Los Angeles, and therefore takes driving out of the equation. Jump on a train to Los Angeles, take [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2011 by Aaron Morris
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Zymurgy is purportedly the journal of the American Homebrewers Association (my subscription must have been lost in the mail). It has published a list (set forth below) of the 50 best beers in America, as ranked by its readers. The readers are asked to provide a list of their 20 favorite beers, and all beers must [...]
Posted on June 30th, 2011 by Aaron Morris
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C.E.O. Red Label Cigar (5 x 50) This is a real mystery cigar. I think I actually bought a five-pack of C.E.O. cigars, based on a vague memory that I exclaimed, “what the hell are C.E.O. cigars?” when the package came in the mail. I think they were an impulse buy on Cigar Monster, ordered [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2011 by Aaron Morris
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For true beer lovers, April 7 is a day of celebration on par with Thanksgiving, or at the very least St. Patrick’s Day. Prohibition officially ended on December 5, 1933, with the ratification of the 21st Amendment. But earlier that year, newly-elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt took steps to fulfill his campaign promise to end [...]
Posted on April 7th, 2011 by Aaron Morris
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If your waistline and the calendar are not in sync, and you need to shave some calories while you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, keep in mind that there are a number of beers containing less than 100 calories (based on a 12-ounce serving): Miller Genuine Draft 64: 64 calories and 2.6 grams of carbohydrates [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2011 by Aaron Morris
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Whoever wrote “it never rains in Southern California” hadn’t seen our weather of late. (Actually it was Albert Hammond, and he was being intentionally ironic.) But in any event, it’s been awhile since I’ve been able to head out to the Lido deck for a tasting. Tonight I finally got to try my own home [...]
Posted on December 19th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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It’s always good to have a health study or two up your sleeve in case some teetotaler tries to give you grief about ordering a second beer. According to a new study published in the journal “Circulation,” moderate drinking lowers the risk of heart disease in adults, and the positive effects may be the greatest [...]
Posted on November 1st, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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