find the perfect beer

I tried this beer over the weekend. It was pretty good for a “cheaper” beer. It’s not available in my state so I won’t be having it too often but I may pick it up again when I’m in a state that sells it.

I tried Rising Moon by the Blue Moon Brewing Company this past weekend. It’s a spring ale with a lime for a little zing. I enjoyed it and will buy it again.

Hallertau IMPERIAL PILSNER. On the bottle it says: “An Intense Hop Experience” That is TOTALLY true. Being the hop freak that I am, I’ve never had a beer with an injection of hops like this before. Wah! What a hop blast! I couldn’t drink a six pack of this in one sitting (it’d ruin the experience), but I seriously savored a nice cold glass of this. Highly recommended to any hop freaks out there.

Belgian or Belgian-style ales that could qualify as the perfect beer. But I did learn one thing recently – pumpkin ale is NOT a combination I enjoy. There are few (if any) ales I don’t like. Pumpkin ale is one of them. But I had to try it because it was Halloween.

Hi folks. We have one of the best beers in the world. Everybody should drink it at least twice a week.

I’m finding that as I get older I am getting less picky about beer. Or maybe I’m becoming less of a snob about beer.

Either way, I’m really coming to appreciate the beers that took us from Prohibition to the beginning of the microbrew era. The stuff your father drank (or you did when broke): Hamm’s, Blatz, Old Style, Pabst and Schlitz, about which more in a minute. True these aren’t flavored with exotic fruits or bottle fermented or anything unusual. They are basic beer, but what a thing beer! Using the most basic ingredients, the brewers of the 20th century figured out how to make beers that appealed to broad groups of people.

But then something happened. Schlitz, then the top-selling beer in the States, in an effort to cut costs screwed up. They destroyed their beer, and refused to go back. Coke at least tried to placate us with Classic Coke. Anyway, the other day I was reading that you can go for the gusto once again. Schlitz is back in its original formula in test markets. Word from the old guys is that it tasted like it used to: remember, this is the beer that made Milwaukee famous. If all goes well, real Schlitz should be available again to all of us.

I can’t wait.

ive found the perfect beer! mcewan’s champion ale (its gorgeous), followed closely by guinness original

I tried this beer last weekend and I liked it very much,
enough to buy some for this weekend. :)

Honeymoon ale is a summer brew from Blue Moon. I tried it this past weekend and enjoyed it very much. It’s a beer that I’ll buy and drink again.

Every time I find something I really wonderful that I like, say Unibrou’s La Fin du Mond, I rediscover a mass-market beer that really appeals to me at the moment, like Schlitz.

I find that there are many beers that are good, but perfection is elusive. Maybe it is this difficulty that keeps at this task, or maybe it is the joy of discovery.