Showing posts with label beer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beer. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Quest for a new Summer Beer

Sam Adams Summer Ale was once my beer of choice for summer drinking, its now become lemon flavored dish soap.  Horrendous!  I thought I got a bad 12 pack and maybe the bar had a bad batch on tap...I was wrong, it's just plain bad.  So now i've decided to search for a new summer brew by sampling as many as I can until I find a new standby.

So I decided to take a trip to Austin Liquors at lunch to see what I could find.  I've been searching for Bells Oberon and Three Floyds Gumballhead and apparently neither are distributed to Massachusetts.  Oh well.  As I'm browsing the beer aisle the "beer guy" asks if he could help me.  I ask him about the Bells and Three Floyds and he confirms what I thought, or did he.  I explain to him that I'm a fan of wheats and then he hits me with "have you tried Blue Moon?".   Um.  Not to come off as a pretentious asshole and a complete beer snob, I say yes kindly and laugh a bit.  At this point I picked two six packs, one of Troegs Dreamweaver and one of Southern Tiers Hop Sun.  I'm pretty sure "beer guys" next suggestion was going to be Bud Light Golden Wheat.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Mountain Man


Autumn is right around the corner.  Time for sweaters, jeans, fireplaces, pumpkins and Octoberfest beer.  I've recently discovered a wonderful band called Mountain Man, which could turn out to be my soundtrack for the fall.  Mountain Man are Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath, based out of Bennington, Vt.  They remind me of the music from "O'Brother Where Art Thou?" and I describe it as hauntingly beautiful.  Take a listen of a few tracks from their debut album "Made the Harbour" and decide for yourself.  Do yourself a favor and pour a Shipyard Pumpkinhead to get into the spirit. "Made the Harbour" available on the iTunes now.

Mountain Man - Animal


Mountain Man - Loon Song