Commentist Beer Barrel: Breakfast of Champions

You can probably use your fingers to count the genuinely distinctive beer styles invented here in the United States, even if you're Jim Abbott. American brewers have shown a terrific facility for re-invention, for better (American IPAs!) and worse (the "great pilsner taste" of Miller Lite!). New ideas are fewer and farther

Commentist Beer Barrel: It’s a Beer!

As I'm sure you're all tired of hearing, I have drunk many, many different beers—roughly 2,300 by my best current reckoning. It has been, and continues to be, a really awesome, life-enriching hobby, with the incredibly minor drawback that finding something truly new and different seems to be increasingly difficult

Commentist Beer Barrel: Bastards

Happy Holidays, you bastards. This review has been a long time in the making. Since Thanksgiving or so, with lady snow's help, I've been diligently tasting every beer I could get my hands on from Stone's Arrogant Bastard line. Today I'm ready to share my findings, but as usual, I've