Infinium Review
There’s a lot I like about Infinium. I like it for providing a beer suitable for New Year’s Eve. I like that it was a collaborative effort between Boston Beer Company, one of America’s most successful breweries, and Weihenstephan, one of Earth’s oldest. I like that this alliance suggests a newfound willingness among German brewers […]
Big Red Pour Festival Report
I’m still trying to figure out Draft magazine’s Big Red Pour. Was it a beer festival? A rock concert? A silent auction? A turkey slaughterhouse? If you too had stood in the landscape-devouring shadow of Mount Turkeyleg, you’d guess the latter. It was awe inspiring. At one point, its saucy peak nearly sundered the canopy […]
Fighting Flagships | Vol. 3
In this edition of Fighting Flagships, I’ve decided to scrap my scoring system. Unlike in normal reviews — where that bottlecap graphic is the carrot on the stick — Fighting Flagships is less about scores and more about the prestigious Golden Godzilla! Scoring each beer as I go along shanks the dramatic tension and dumps […]
