Fresh off (recovering) our Live Blog of Idle Hands Sierra Nevada Night we have this review and blind taste test of Sierra Nevada Torpedo. Now Torpedo was the first beer we reviewed and just recently they followed the latest trend in craft beer… canning craft beers. In this review we revisit Sierra Nevada Torpedo and give a rating based on the canned version along with a discussion of the pros and cons of canning beers. This is a little longer video – but a two parter! Consider this part of our “Ken Burns” series of reviews. Cans! Nostalgia! Famous Documentarians!
This video takes us back to our roots in a different way, when apparently we couldn’t frame a shot… Imagine that Graham is talking when you hear his voice (because you don’t see him often) and check out this review from Sierra Nevada. Sierra Nevada made the news this week by announcing a East Coast Brewery Site so we decided to toss up a review of their new seasonal, Ruthless Rye. Ruthless joins the recent rye brews (Founders, Sixpoint) but with a interesting twist – watch to find out! Be sure to check out our ever growing collection of Sierra Nevada reviews – Torpedo – Southern Harvest – Ken and Fritz 30th
This week we tried the Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale, which is Lagunitas apology for not being able to brew the Brown Sugga Winter Seasonal. We missed a week because our studio had the week off, but this is the second in our holiday beer series. Although late to the table, you’ll be able to find these beers for a while still, so watch and then crack open one for yourself and enjoy!
In the spirit of competition, Beer Friends would like to invite everyone to our NFL season hashtag battles! Using hashtagbattle.com we will pit two breweries against each other when their NFL counterparts are facing off on the gridiron. Are you ready for some football? And drinking? And #hashtag battle?!?!?!
What’s a hashtag battle? When you’re drinking a beer of a brewery competing in the battle (#stone vs #newbelgium), throw a #hashtag of the brewery and tweet it (or setup your foursquare or untappd to push to tweet and include the #hashtag) and we’ll use hashtagbattle.com to declare a winner after the Monday Night football game on ESPN. And because football needs beer, we’re starting on Saturday morning to include the brews consumed during College Football Saturdays. Support your team, support your beer, drink local and hashtag battle!
Hashtag Battle Week Five Matchup: Denver vs San Diego (#newbelgium vs #stone)
Remember when Sierra Nevada had their 30th Anniversary? They produced some amazing beers and today (or whatever day you read/watch this) the Beer Friends review the Fritz and Ken 30th Anniversary Ale. Fritz is Fritz Maytag, the owner and brewer of San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company and joined with Ken to produce a brew “as a nod to the dark ales and stouts that seduced both in the early years.” Birthday’s are the best when the guest get gifts… Beer! Anniversaries! Collaboration!
For this weeks Six Pack of the Week we go down under… to New Zealand! This week we tried the Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest 2011. The world on the street (and Sierra Nevada’s website) is that this is the first American craft beer to use hops grown in the southern hemisphere, hand picked, dried and flown back to Chico, California and used in this Harvest brew. The three hop varieties are Pacific Hallertau, New Zealand Motueka and New Zealand Southern Cross Hops – none of which these Beer Friends have heard of or tasted! Southern Hemisphere! New Hops! G-Day Mate! Beer!
Ah March… Spring Training starts – the weather improves, March Madness for College Basketball, and of course the Daily Beer Calendar Poll, it’s what I get up for in the morning…
This is the third bre from Unibroue Brewery in Chambly, Canada and for good reason. Unibroue has quite the rep in the craft brewing community and the Beer Friends certainly enjoyed their taste at the Good Sh*t Event at Rattle N Hum.
Today’s Six Pack of the Week isn’t a sixer at all, it’s a bomber of Hop Stoopid from Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California. This is described as a hops lovers dream, but having a few Hop-Heads in the group we’ll see how this stacks up! Also check out the other brews from Lagunitas that the Beer Friends have reviewed… perfect for the V-Day hangover…
Democracy now! Stand in line and wait your turn for the little voting booth with the shower curtain! Leave no hanging chads! (Isn’t that joke burned out by now?) One visit, five votes and check back for results…
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