Weyerbacher update… not having time to run up to Easton this weekend is disappointing. Anything by Weyerbacher is great and brown ales are typically irresistible to me. Go buy me a case… PLEASE!

Charlie Released! In bottles this Saturday October 18 at the brewery from Noon to 3pm!

Stop down and check out the third in our Brewers Select Series of one-off brews. Charlie is a beautiful, hefty brown ale at 7.4% ABV and about 10% smoked malt for a very intriguing, pleasant, flavorful beer. We’re not talking in your face “smoked ham” here, just a nice light touch (more than a nuance) that makes this beer very beguiling. We only have about 25 cases, so it’ll likely be sold out before the end of the day.

I have been on a wheat beer kick this Spring and my recent discovery of the bar down the street from my house has furthered this current scourge. The bar only has two prices for beer, one of domestics and one for imports. The night I went over there, I discovered this and sought whatever microbrew or interesting beer I could find in their selection. Thus, for the same price as a piss beer like Bud I was able to get a bottle of Ithaca Apricot Wheat. After one bottle turned into three, I went home realizing that it was quite a good beer.

I often refer to fruit-infused ales as “queer beers”. This isn’t to say I don’t drink these beers at times, but I coined the termed to describe the types of beers that my friend Dan drinks. I enjoy several varieties of such, specifically being a fan of Kasteel Rouge, Rodenbach’s Redbach, Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat, and now… Ithaca Apricot Wheat.

The event that fueled this blog was that I went to the same bar for dinner with my wife and a friend and I grabbed a six pack (for only $7) of Apricot Wheat to bring home. Since that time, I have had the opportunity to consume a few of the aforementioned beers and it inspired me to spread the gospel of the apricot. …more… »

Leinenkugel’s Brewery makes pretty decent beer, at least that’s what I have assumed based on picking up a case of their variety pack a few weeks back. A friend of mine asked me to grab a case of their Sunset Wheat for him and in doing so, I decided to check their other stuff out. The variety pack included four beers, below are my brief thought on each.

Sunset Wheat is a blueberry wheat ale. Their wheat ales are in the American style, meaning they are not Belgian wheats (ala Blue Moon) or German wheats (ala Franziskaner). Sunset Wheat is a very good wheat ale from my estimation, in fact it may be one of the best I have had… which only says a lot because I don’t typically like blueberry very much. I do, however, like blueberry pancakes and if blueberry pancakes were beer, they’d be Sunset Wheat. It’s a hearty yet not heavy beer. One that will likely become a summer staple of my beer fridge. …more… »