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 [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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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 [...]
Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Slightly disappointed by last night’s random pairing, the only thing to do was head out onto the Lido deck and try to do a better job. I selected a Belgium beer to increase the odds of a good choice – Orval Trappist Ale – and a Nicaraguan cigar for the same reason. Tonight the Force [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Pretty funny stuff.
Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Another great beer festival at Irvine Lake. The second annual (hopefully) Orange County Beer Festival was held on May 15 instead of August like the previous year, and that resulted in much cooler weather. I went with a friend and two designated drivers (always good to have a backup at an event like this in [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Hey Federal Trade Commission. You’re telling me and all the other bloggers that if we get paid for an endorsement, we damn well better disclose that fact, or face a penalty of $11,000. Well no one has ever paid me for an endorsement, and if they ever had I wouldn’t need you to tell me [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Any app that can help with the task of finding and researching beer is okay in my book. I found a couple that now hold places of honor on my iPhone. The problems with so many iPhone apps that rely on data bases is that the data is so sparse that they little more than [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Always drink responsibly.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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No doubt you’ve heard of Gray Powell, even if you don’t recognize the name. He’s the guy that allegedly left the super-secret iPhone prototype at a German beer garden in Redwood City, California. Making matters worse, he supposedly posted the following tweet right before leaving said item at the beer garden: “I underestimated how good [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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I always cringe when I hear someone complaining how America should provide some new entitlement to its citizens, using the argument that some other industrialized country does it. [Cue the patriotic music.] This is America, damn it, and we should be taking our own path. In our first 200 years we put a man on [...]
Posted on April 8th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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