Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Certainly featuring Lagunitas Brewing often enough on this blog!
Lagunitas make a couple strong beers every year around the holidays. Brown Shugga usually shows up around Thanksgiving. The story with that beer, is, one of the Brewer Assistants mis-read the amount of Brown Sugar called for in their Barley Wine style Ale recipe, Olde [...]
A trip to Ledger’s Liquors in Berkeley turned up some nice finds: North Shore Distillery Gin No. 6 (Hi Sonja!) Fee’s Grapefruit Bitters, Coruba Dark Jamaican Rum. But, coolest of all, they had a number of Rodenbach Beers.
Now I know Rodenbach has been making an effort to re-establish itself in the US, but I [...]
I mentioned our Holiday tradition of a flight of Anchor’s beers, another perhaps more enjoyable tradition we have is buying a bottle of the holiday beer from Brasserie d’Achouffe, N’Ice Chouffe. This is a strong, dark holiday beer. Quite sweet and lightly flavored with spices, thyme, and Curacao Orange peels.
The thing I like [...]
