De Proef Brouwerij / Bell’s Brewery: Van Twee

Van Twee is a collaboration between De Proef Brouwerij of Belgium and Bell’s Brewery of Michigan. Taking the best of both Belgium and Michigan and mixing them into one nice beer. This guy is a mix between a super dark spicy belgian ale and a porter brewed with sour cherry juice. In the nose you get a sour spicy cherry scent similar to what you get from a lambic ale or a belgian ale brewed with Bret and lactobacillus.

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Brooklyn Brewery: Brooklyn Pilsner

After a long day of touristy walking in New York and seeing Passenger 57 himself on the street, I needed a cold one. We waited forty more minutes outside Grimaldi’s in Brooklyn for pizza. This place was packed and all the people in line where hyping it up. It turned out to be amazing pizza. [...]

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Sapporo: Yebisu

It is always a good day when the wifey comes home from the Korean grocery store with a new beer. Pretty sweet huh? This time she brought me a Yebisu Traditional Beer from Sapporo Breweries Ltd. This guy tastes a lot like a Sapporo without the bitter. It is kind of sweet but very balanced [...]

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Duvel

While I am on my Belgian Ale kick I decided to pick up one of the quintessential Belgian Ales, Duvel. This guy is pretty good. I would describe this guy as a mixture of a Pilsner and Belgian Ale. It is really light and blond, smells like a Pilsner, and even tastes like a Pilsner [...]

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