Beer Basics | The Wit

What can I say about witbiers? Quite a bit, apparently. You might remember the style from my last review, but here’s something you probably don’t remember (because I didn’t mention it): The first beer to push my OMG-I-LOVE-THIS button was a witbier. Gather ’round, folks — it’s story time. Several years ago, back when I’d […]

Kings of Craft

Earlier this week I read an article about last year’s World Beer Cup winners. In the comments section, a bunch of Europeans were bullying American beers. All right, guys, we get it; during the half-century following American prohibition, we produced a lot of watered-down lagers, but it sounds as if you haven’t tried a U.S. […]

Maui CoCoNut Porter Review

I recently smuggled two beers out of Southern California. One was the Allagash Curieux. This CoCoNut Porter was the other. A fertile trip indeed! We’d planned to visit an amusement park (or something), but the GPS led us straight to Bevmo. Then, strangely enough, our electro-guide switched to Mormon mode—as we entered the parking lot, […]