Beer Reviews

Welcome to the "Beer Reviews" section. First, my disclaimer that I'm not a real beer reviewer. I do my best but feel free to disagree, correct me, or just tell me I'm wrong. That's what the comment sections are for! Also, let me know if you have any beers that you suggest I review. Comments work, but so does allhoppedupblog@gmail.com.

Just click the title of any review to read the full description of that beer.

Red Rambler Ale

Okay, tonight’s beer is the Red Rambler Ale from Peace Tree Brewing. It gets its unique name from the fact that Peace Tree Brewing’s facility is located at an old Nash dealership in Knoxville, Iowa. It comes in a bottle similar to Red Stripe but all three of Peace Tree’s bottled beers have extremely unique and nifty-looking labels.

The beer is pretty good. You can really taste a caramel malt in the initial sip, but then it is followed pretty quickly by the hops which nicely balance it out. It seems to have slightly above average carbonation, but that might just be because I’ve been on a stout kick for the last week so most anything seems to be heavily carbonated...


 Third Coast Beer

I’m trying to post more often than I have but the move and now work are really getting in the way of my beer drinking!

Today I’ll be talking to you about Third Coast Beer from Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Third Coast Beer is an American Blonde Ale not to be confused with Third Coast Old Ale, also from Bell’s. I can’t imagine why they
would have wanted to name two of their beers extremely similar things, but they did...
 
 
Schlafly Hefeweizen

First, a disclaimer: I’m really not a beer reviewer. I’ve tasted a lot of beers in my time but I’ve never tried my hand at a reviewing one outside of pointing to a six pack in the grocery store and saying “that’s tasty!” As a part of preparing for my big road trip and writing my book I’m attempting to purify my palate and familiarize myself (if I don’t already know) with the offerings from at least the breweries that I’ll be visiting and maybe a few others as well. Hopefully it will make me sound a little more intelligent when it comes time to sample beers along with the brewmasters responsible for their creation.

Here pretty soon I’m going to be moving from Champaign, IL to Des Moines, Iowa. There are a lot of great things about Des Moines; one of those is that it has a pretty unique set of micobrews available as compared to what I get in Champaign. I figured that since I’ll only be in Central Illinois a few more days I should spend that time enjoying the beers that I can’t get in Central Iowa.

Tonight I sat down for the evening with a couple bottles of hefeweizen from Schlafly in Saint Louis...