Beers

Orval at Two Ages: A Study in Patience

Two bottles of Orval — bottled November 2024 and October 2025 — opened the same week in May. A study in what ten months does to the same beer.

Orval at Two Ages: A Study in Patience

Two bottles of Orval — bottled November 2024 and October 2025 — opened the same week in May. A study in what ten months does to the same beer.

Tilquin Oude Gueuze 60/40 — Blend 23/24

A tasting note for Tilquin Oude Gueuze 60/40, Blend 23/24. Warm golden amber, tart apple lift on the nose, centered lactic acidity on the palate, apricot mid-palate, and a finish...

Tilquin Oude Gueuze 60/40 — Blend 23/24

A tasting note for Tilquin Oude Gueuze 60/40, Blend 23/24. Warm golden amber, tart apple lift on the nose, centered lactic acidity on the palate, apricot mid-palate, and a finish...

Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout poured into a tulip glass beside the bottle, pitch black with a thin collapsed tan head

Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout — Tasting Note

A barrel-aged imperial stout bottled in 2013, opened twelve years past its best-by date. The roast endured. Everything else did not.

Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout — Tasting Note

A barrel-aged imperial stout bottled in 2013, opened twelve years past its best-by date. The roast endured. Everything else did not.

Freedom Tower American Amber Ale by The Tank Brewing Co., poured into a glass — deep mahogany amber, bright white head

Freedom Tower American Amber Ale — Tasting Note

A tasting note for Freedom Tower American Amber Ale by The Tank Brewing Co. — a Miami craft beer built on amber malt, Cascade hops, and local pride.

Freedom Tower American Amber Ale — Tasting Note

A tasting note for Freedom Tower American Amber Ale by The Tank Brewing Co. — a Miami craft beer built on amber malt, Cascade hops, and local pride.

Samuel Smith Organic Pale Ale in a tulip glass beside the bottle — golden amber, creamy white head, Old Brewery Tadcaster label

Samuel Smith Organic Pale Ale — Tasting Note

A tasting note for Samuel Smith Organic Pale Ale — an English Pale Ale brewed at the Old Brewery in Tadcaster, Yorkshire. Temperature is everything.

Samuel Smith Organic Pale Ale — Tasting Note

A tasting note for Samuel Smith Organic Pale Ale — an English Pale Ale brewed at the Old Brewery in Tadcaster, Yorkshire. Temperature is everything.

Drie Fonteinen Oude Kriek Blend 83 and Blend 118 side by side — two tulip glasses of deep garnet kriek, bottles behind

3F Oude Kriek — Blend 83 vs. Blend 118

A side-by-side palate comparison of two 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek releases — Blend 83 (17|18) and Blend 118 (21|22) — tracing the arc of kriek evolution across four seasons.

3F Oude Kriek — Blend 83 vs. Blend 118

A side-by-side palate comparison of two 3 Fonteinen Oude Kriek releases — Blend 83 (17|18) and Blend 118 (21|22) — tracing the arc of kriek evolution across four seasons.