Beer Squared #31: Pale Lagers

Well, Bob and I decided to give pale lagers another go. We have come to the conclusion that we have way too many beers to work though and for full disclosure notice, we did this tasting after a round of double IPA’s. So, if you think our soon be trademark style is a little off, [...]

Beer Squared #30: Flavored Stouts

Bob and I ended up having a bit of a collection of flavored stouts. We did put an Oatmeal Stout in this category, which could or couldn’t be classified as a flavored stout. When we picked out the beers for this tasting, we only had four. I felt like we needed five beers to round [...]

Beer Squared #29: Porters

When working out our schedule for what we’re going to review and the 80-some beers that are always waiting to be reviewed, I received a bottle of Deschutes Black Butte Porter in the mail, which bumped it up to the front of the line. This is our first go with porters which were originally the [...]

Beer Squared #28: English Bitter Ales

This is the first edition of Beer Squared that is outside of Lafayette Square! My wife started a project in our kitchen that needed some help from Bob, so he decided we’d have a “mini tasting” after he was done. In honor of the work put in, the beers have been photographed in front of [...]

Beer Squared #27: Double IPAs

So, around this time of year the vaunted Hoplsam is released by Bell’s Brewing and we couldn’t be happier. So, once again we purchased a sixer of what I consider to be the best DIPA going, and we ambitiously compared it to three others. We may have bitten of a bit more than we could [...]

Beer Squared #26: Barleywines

Here we are tasting some very high alcohol brews. Due to that fact, and the very large bottles, we chose to only do two of them instead of our usual four or five. A barley wine typically reaches an alcohol strength of 8 to 12% by volume and is brewed from specific gravities as high [...]

Beer Squared #25:Brown Ales

Now that we’re in the new year, I think we’re going to start the number over on our new quest to 100 beers in 2012. Today we’re tasting a style of beer that’s become a favorite: English Style Brown Ales. Since this is our first go with nut browns…. Brown ale is a style of [...]

Beer Squared #24: India Pale Ales

Welcome to another round of India Pale Ales. No matter how many of these we drink, there are always another fifty of these wonderful hoppy ales in the fridge to try. This time we even added a sixth to the proceedings as we had extra time and no one was around to tell us not [...]

Beer Squared #23: Pale Lagers

As a family, we went downtown and watched the St. Louis Cardinals victory parade down Market Street. Afterwards we went home and as our wives went shopping, we started drinking. I’m going to stop saying that we have any kind of set number for how many beers we do in a sitting, because it never [...]

Beer Squared #22: Scotch Ales

With the release of Backwoods Bastard, we decided it was good to hit another round of Scotch Ales, one of my favorite styles that we’ve only done once. Once again, we rolled out a bevy of five beers for this tasting. We started outside and ended up inside…because these beers took awhile to go through. [...]