Pyramid Amber Weizen

Slightly bitter with a hint of soy sauce as a light aftertaste, this is a great beer for enjoying with a meal. The beer also has a hint of cherry wood and raw cranberry. I ma surprisingly pleased with this beer, which goes to show you that you should never write off a beer brewer just because you may not like other beers that the brewer produces. You are really doing yourself a dis-service by being so closed-minded; I myself was guilty of this till recently. The only detractor is that the beer is perhaps best only with food. But other than that, it is wonderful.

Pilsner Urquell

When translated, stands for crappy tasting beer. Touted as "the original pilsner" this beer is bitter as all get out. It even leaves a bitter aftertaste in the mouth. This beer is an overall unpleasant experience. For those of you who read "good life magazines" you will be seeing this beer advertised in your mag. WARNING THIS BEER SUCKS AND TASTES LIKE A SKUNKS ASS, DRINK AT YOUR OWN STUPIDITY. Do not be "April fooled" into purchasing this stinker of a beer no matter how "real" and "authentic" and "true" tasting they say this beer is. The advertising boast; "using the finest local ingredients" well the local ingredients they must be talking about is skunk shit. So the moral of the story is, don’t be fooled by well thought up adds in snooty magazines.

Tequiza and Chill, brothers from another mother

Tequiza: More spirit tasting than beer tasting, the traditional grainy taste of beer is underline. The best way to describe this beer is highlights yes, but don’t underline them. That’s the best way to define this beer. You sea, this beer is brewed with blue agave and lime nectar. Blue agave is used in the brewing of Tequila and as you all know, lime goes well with tequila, so the natural tendency of a dedicated beer drinker is high skepticism, I mean this sounds like a recipe for disaster. But I like it, this beer represents for me a great time with good friends in the back yard. Yes it was a lazy summer day the backyard and for that matter, the entire house was for that moment "ours" the night was young and the beers were extra cold. It was one of those great times you always remember. You see, friends I have come to fined that beer is the catalyst for great memories. Time with friends is good, but for me adding beer is a great page marker in my personal book of memories. This ones for you "Super Chicken" and "KAT" hears to you and your friendship one which was forged with a cold beer. So, BEERS TO YA! Thanks for a great friendship shared over some great beers. P.S. Thank you to Anheuser Bush fro giving us a beer that for once is out of the ordinary and it truly original.

Chill. Like a long lost brother from another mother comes Miller Chill. This is Millers answer to Anheuser’s Tequiza. The two taste relatively the same. However, Chill boasts about coming from the Chelada style of brewing from Mexico. However, the Chill is less sweat and a more hardy taste overall. You can really taste the saltiness in the beer, the taste is more pail in taste but good. The best way to sum up the two beers is that they are like brothers from another mother, with Tequiza being the older more sophisticated of the two, but the other being good, but not the greatest.

Red Dog By The Plank Road Brewery

Nick nack patty wack, give this dog a home. A large percentage of money goes to the advertising departments of most mass produced beers. However, this is not the case with Red-Dog. As you stroll down the beer isle of your local grocer, you see him, the red dog staring out at you with indifferent eyes. The sort of eyes that say " look bub, I don’t really give a flip if you take me home or not". The Red-Dog he says "look, take me as I am. Not for my price tag or the other cheap beers this smuck grocer placed me next to, if you want a good dog, er I mean beer, then take me home. Otherwise pick the pretty looking beer with the premium price tag just down the case you pansy". Now for most things in life the saying is true. You get what you pay for. However, with beers, that is not always the case, in fact sometimes it is the exact opposite. You can end up paying high prices for complete crap, and in actuality what you are paying for is the advertising and not the content of the bottle. The way I like to describe Red-Dog is that it is a good old beer, it is well rounded in all aspects. The price is great it goes well with food, especially Buffalo Wings. I have found that that combination, the Red-Dog and the wings does it for me. Man, one Red-Dog and about twelve wings and I am good to go. Red-Dog has one of the highest alcohol contents around, so watch out when drinking this one, it is smooth with a bit of a bite at the end, but overall a well-rounded beer. It’s only detractor is the fact that it is so cheap. People tend to be frightened by cheap beer.

Red Stripe Lager

Red Stripe Jamaican Lager

Ja-man, ja-makin me thirsty for another one mon. For over 75 years Red Stripe has embodied the spirit, rhythm and pulse of the Jamaica and it’s people, and they must be a thirsty people because this Red Stripe is so dang refreshing. It is, however, a tad lax in the flavor department. But for what it lacks in taste, it makes up for in refreshment. You can slam back a whole bushel of these squatty babies and still be thirsty for more. So enjoy mon. Felix "Ja-mon" this ones for you. P.S. I will see you down on Electric Avenue.

JW Dundee’s Honey Brown

Piss water, is the only way to define this waste of a beer bottle. This isn’t even worth calling beer. This beer had no flavor at all. I am all for drinking ample amounts of water, but when I am trying to drink a beer, I want the dang thing to taste like a beer, or at least like there is some alcohol in it. In the past I have talked about beers I did not like due to the fact that they were too strong; well this beer is on the other end of the spectrum piss pore in all aspects. It even looks like piss. Well that’s that and there is no more to say, except avoid this beer at all cost unless you are an alcoholic and your nag of a wife is complaining that you don’t get enough water in you all liquid diet. You can just grab a JW Dundee’s Honey Brown and say I am drinking water, it comes in a bottle from the High Falls Brewing Company.

Hop Rob Rye Specially Ale by Bear Republic

The best way to describe this beer is that it is like a taster version of Arrogant Bastard. Where Arrogant Bastard comes up so short in the flavor department the hop rod drives it on home. This dark beer has the robust dark ale taste, but it has an earthy aftertaste, which comes from the rye. It is this interesting aftertaste is what sets itself apart from others in it class. Apparently this beer has a IBU (International Bitterness Units) of more than 90. I will have to look into this IBU for I have never herd of this type of rating till now. However, I suppose that until now this type of rating system has never been needed due to the fact that the small microbreweries primarily the ones coming from California are just infants when compared to the behemoth brewers, who have been churning out suds for what seems forever. Now don’t get me wrong. I am not badmouthing these "baby" brewers. However, I am inclined to agree with an article I red in a newspaper recently where the writer was raising the question of, are some of the microbreweries, primarily those from California brewing extremely bitter beers just for the sake of brewing bitter beers? I am inclined to agree with this, and the Hop Rod would be a blatant offender of this if it did not do a good job of balancing the bitter with other flavors, however it did and so Hop Rob gets a my nod. Enjoy.

Hello to you all my name is Chris and I relay enjoy beers, Every where I go in the world like to try new beers. I try to find beers that are unique to the place I am visiting. As a result I have come to post my reviews of the beers I have tried. So to start off this blog, I give you the beer of the year 07.

Wells Banana Bread Beer

Wow, this beer smells like a banana now n later. Very light carbonation the now and later taste fills the mouth around the lips. Most of the carbonation seems to be lost during poring. This is an extraordinarily heavy beer; I would love to take the hygrometer to this one. For all my fellow aviation fuel experts out there, did you know that beer, just like jet fuel has a "gravity" and is checked with a hygrometer? But I digress. For all of you out there who like to start your day with a bowl of wheatabix and sliced banana, you will love this beer, the coloration is a tanned banana peal orange. One of the big reasons I was so enamored with this beer is because I usually hate anything banana related, so when I found this beer and enjoyed it so much I new that it was the best pick for beer of the year. My suggestion for enjoying this beer is as an after dinner drink like a desert. Hope you all enjoy this one.

P.S. I would love to here your feedback on this beer. Did you like it, did you hate it? Please let me know thanks, Chris AKA,Captain "C"