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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Based on the Steelers’ performance thus far, I thought it best to distract myself with a quality beer and cigar for the remainder of the Super Bowl. (Oh cripes, another interception.) Adding insult to injury, I fired up a Rocky Patel, forgetting that Rocky is a major cheese head. But give the man his due. RPs [...]
Posted on February 6th, 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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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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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 [...]
Posted on July 4th, 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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If you are in one of the ten states that have Total Wine & More stores, be sure to get on their mailing list for some pretty decent coupons. Every few weeks they send out a coupon that gets you $2 off a six pack or a 22-ounce beer priced at $6.99 or more (up [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Apparently Miller Coors brewing has been testing these for a few months, but I just ran across the company’s self-contained draft beer thingy. It is 1.5 gallons of Coors Light (and probably their other beers) in a plastic container, with its own tapper. I paid 15 bucks at my local Total Wine and took it [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Posted on June 7th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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