Archive for December, 2006

Samuel Adams Brown Ale

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

I just had the Sam Adams Brown Ale for the first time the other night. It poured a dark orange and brown color with a thin head that dissipated very quickly. It certainly looked like the other brown ales I had tried before. Immediately I noticed a malty taste. There was ...

Lost Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2002

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

I had a bottle of the Lost Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2002 a couple of weeks ago. I actually got the bottle for free after a wine tasting I attended a few months ago. They had a handful of bottles left over, and those of us lolly gagging at the end ...

East Asian Beer Tasting

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Last week Wolfe, Greg, Mike, Roger, and I performed a taste test of several east Asian beers. And no, the test was not performed blind. We cheated, so what? The beers we sampled were Asahi (Japan), Sapporo (Japan), Singha (Thailand), Tiger (Singapore), Kirin Ichiban (Japan), Tsingtao (China), and San Miguel ...

Wines That Keep You in Good Health

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Adam sent me a link last week to a story discussing where the world's healthiest wines are grown. And by "the world's healthiest wines", they don't mean the wines themselves are in good health (as I first thought). They mean the wines that supposedly best keep you in good health. ...