Dragon’s Milk

I had 2 beers from New Holland Brewing Company this weekend, and both were excellent.  I’ll start with Dragon’s Milk.  It’s a strong dark ale, aged in oak bourbon barrels, which imparts an interesting natural flavor.  The higher alcohol content also gives of more of a liquor vibe.  It’s a dark brown beer, but not [...]

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Great Lakes Sinker

That creative and obscure play on words was brought to you by the number XM57.  Great Lakes Sinker also describes Edmund Fitzgeral Porter from Great Lakes Brewing Company.  Not that it’s bad, it just tastes like everything else in it’s class.  It is a multiple award winning brew, just the same.  It has that homebrewy, [...]

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Purple Haze on Beale Street

In Memphis over Easter weekend, I looked forward to trying some local food and local beer.  Couldn’t find any local beer where I went, but had a Purple Haze from Abita Brewing Company, ordered at the Blues City Cafe.  Very cool place.  Family friendly, but seedy enough to give off a cool, funky vibe.  I [...]

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Stockyard: bad name, decent beer

The Chicago Stockyards stir up romantic visions of underpaid, overworked immigrants, noise, stench…so what better image to connect with a beer.  Maybe to an out-of-towner, it gives them a connection to Chicago history.  I don’t know.  Looking past Stockyard Oatmeal Stout’s bad name, this turns out to be a decent beer.  Made by Goose Island [...]

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