Last weekend when I landed in Vegas for Super Bowl Sunday I noticed Bud Light Platinum had found great point of sale positioning not only in the airport but also all over Las Vegas. I was excited to try this beer, when Anheuser-Busch hits a homerun as they occasionally do I am the first to give them kudos. This was not the case.
The good news for you Bud Light/Budweiser drinkers is Bud Light Platinum tastes just like your typical Anheuser-Busch beer. The bad news is Bud Light Platinum tastes just like your typical Anheuser-Busch beer. It is so easy for a beer blogger to simply slam an Anheuser-Busch product and move on. Most beer snobs and geeks will applaud this move. I wanted to give Bud Light Platinum a fighting chance so I looked around the internet to find any positive words about this new product. This is what I found: Read the rest of this entry »
This could not be a better week for these two beers to come across my desk. New Belgium Brewing’s Lips of Faith are the perfect beers for Valentine’s Day. Typically, I would not suggest buying your beloved beers on this holiday. In this case, you are safe coming home beer in tow.
3rd party testing lab Consumer Reports recently did a blinded controlled testing of ten popular lagers. The only standout of the ten was Coors which scored “very good” for taste and value. Coors also delivered a solid whooping to InBev rivals Budweiser and Bud Light in both taste and value categories.
Those of you that follow this site know that we have been working with Jim Beam for the past few months. I want to personally thank Jim Beam for including us in their Bold Choices promotion. I have found myself making more Bold Choices lately and these choices are bringing me to some wonderful places.
I have been going a bit nutty with the Jim Beam Devil’s Cut posts these days but I absolutely love this bourbon. Devil’s Cut uses a process that extracts the very last drops of bourbon out of the oak barrels. This produces a rich oaky bourbon with wonderful vanilla undertones. It is those undertones that got me thinking.
You can’t have you cake and eat it to the same goes for cellaring your beers. Today is one of those days that I am heading downstairs with a flashlight. I will without a doubt discover beers I forgot I even bought. I might even find a beer or two from a now defunct brewery.
It seems like brewery startups are popping up all over Boston. There is without a doubt an explosion in nano-breweries and contract brewing going on. This week TMR got an exclusive with Backlash Beer Company. Backlash is headquartered in Boston’s student friendly Brighton area. Brighton is also home to some of Boston’s best beer bars.
The fast food industry is finally catching up with their counter parts overseas. Burger King and Sonic restaurants are now serving beer. Burger King “Whopper Bars” recently opened in Miami, Las Vegas and Kansas City. The Burger King locations pump out drafts of the usual American adjunct lagers. 
I stopped in a modest liquor store on the way home last night. This is by no means a beer store, but it is in a high end neighborhood and usally has a few nice offerings. To my surprise I found Goose Island IPA on this store’s racks last night.
I got to sit down with Night Shift Brewing co-founder Rob Burns last night, over beers of course. Rob was excited to give me the news that Night Shift Brewing has signed off on warehouse space in Everett Ma. For those of you unfamiliar with the area Everett is adjacent to the current Night Shift Brewing base of operations in Somerville Ma. 
Yes it is that time again. Our list of Ten Beers You Must Drink This Summer. There are some basic guidelines that we follow for this list. Some of the beers will be seasonal releases, while others may be year round sessions beers. Some of the beers made the list for their rarity , some for their nostalgia. All of these beer made the list because they taste so damn good.
With Father’s Day around the corner you are probably scratching your head trying to think of the perfect gift for Dad. Well we found something that will definitely make Dad Fῡchen happy. Hitting the shelves of package stores across America is a new herbal liquor called Fῡchen. Fῡchen is a change up from your typical chilled herbal shots and is a lot easier to say.
With Fathers Day around the corner I thought I would take a look at some of the gifts that your Dads would prefer to open instead of another tie. 
In what could be breaking a cardinal man rule and beer writer law I am reviewing a malt beverage. We have done pieces on some of the Four -Locoesque malt bombs in the past. Most of those reviews were tongue-in-cheek satire. Today we are going to take a look at Jeremiah Weed Road House Tea.
Harpoon Brewing in Boston churns out more new product than any brewer I can think of. This is in part fueled by their highly successful 100 Barrel Series, UFO and Leviathan product lines. Leviathan is the vehicle for Harpoon’s big beers – Baltic Porters, IIPAs and other gems. The latest release for the Leviathan is a Barleywine.
I recently got the chance to talk with Jeremiah O’Neill founder of New England Brewing Supply. Jeremiah has created a web destination where homebrewers of all skill levels can buy quality ingredients at bargain prices. I was pleasantly surprised not only by the variety of hops and grains available but also the availibiliy Brettanomyces and other funky yeast strains.
