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Singha Lager

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Tonight I poured myself a glass of the Singha lager from the Boon Rawd Brewery in Bankok, Thailand. The Singha is a standard looking lager with a golden yellow body and a medium thick white head that fades quickly to a rim around the glass. It has a grainy, grassy ...

Carnival of Drinking #2

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

I am hosting the second edition of the Carnival of Drinking here at The Bottom Shelf. Michael hosted the first edition of the Carnival over at Days That End In "Y" a couple of weeks ago. There were three submissions this week. The first one is from Kehaar over at Fishin', ...

Home Brew Haiku

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Beer Haiku Daily posted another one of my haikus. This one is titled "My first home brew", and I wrote it about helping Roger brew a dry Irish stout at his place this past Sunday: Now my first home brew Clean is the name of the game Hope it turns out well I intended ...

2000 Thummerer - Egri Bikavér

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

This is a Hungarian red wine that is, I believe, a blend of five different native red grapes. Egri refers to the region, meaning from Eger. Bikavér translates to bulls blood and it is aptly named. It is very strong with very complex flavors and in my opinion very good. ...