Archive for November, 2009

Beyond the Mug Club: Michael Jackson, Lost Abbey, and the Rise of the Rare Beer Societies

Inside: Everything you wanted to know about Michael Jackson’s Rare Beer Club, A timely history of mail-order beer societies, PLUS The Breaking News about Lost Abbey’s 2010 Patron Sinners and Saints

Tipsy Coverage of The Bistro’s Barrel Aged Festival 2009

As someone with a mild fixation on rare beers (see here and here for examples) that even eight months in Nicaragua couldn’t properly efface, it’s still rare for me to find myself making wishlists, trailing off mid-sentence into thoughts of obscure tap handles, and sleeping as unsoundly as a child on Christmas Eve. I will refrain [...]

Northern California Rare Beer Roundup – November 2009

The season’s heirloom tomatoes are all but kaput, I’ve busted out a goofy white hat to wear under my biking helmet, and our cat’s affections (I’ve done some back-of-the-envelope calculations) are inversely proportional to our house’s temperature. Some things change, but rare kegs and bottles remain incapable of drinking themselves. This is your November 2009 NorCal Rare Beer Roundup.

Beer Geek Survival Guide: Nicaragua

After reading Oakes’ recent swill article, it’s difficult to berate the lowest-common-denominator line of beers from Compañía Cervecera de Nicaragua in quite the same fashion. But occasionally you might still wonder… what the hell did I do to deserve this? [...]