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Stone’s Cali-Belgie(Belgique) IPA.  Sounds like an interesting yet good brew.  The Stone IPA recipie with a Belgian yeast strain.  Let’s find out if it is a good as it sounds.
Poured from a 22oz bottle into a glass.  Golden yellow hue, with a massive frothy head that starts to fizzle down to nothing in 5-10 minutes.  [...]

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Beer Valley Brewing Co.’s Leafer Madness Imperial Pale Ale.  Poured out of a 22oz bottle into a glass.  Massive frothy head, disapates within minuted leaving a nice lace on the glass.  The aroma is of sweet hops and a hint of yeast.  Orange/amber cloudy hue.  First sips have a slight astryngent bitterness balanced by the [...]

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Dog Fish Head’s Midas Touch, the old ancient ale so to speak.  Brewed with honey, muscat grapes, and saffron.  Poured out of a 12oz bottle into a glass.  It has a golden hue, but no head after about thirty seconds, yet very carbonated, almost soda like.  In the nose you really pick up the muscat.  [...]

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12oz bottle into glass.  Pours a deep amber, the nose has a slightly sweet aroma.  After the first few sips all I could think was “Oh my god, they actually made something decent“.  Similar to a Firestone Union Jack but not as ‘hoppy’.  It is very bright on the palate and the head lasts sip [...]

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Out of a 22oz into a glass.  It pours a very cloudy amber/reddish hue.  Not much of a head.  Not much hop aroma, but more of.. a… almost that… dare I say… vomit aroma in the nose.  But the flavor is wonderful, a nice bitter, heavy, oily hop flavor fights to the death with the [...]

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Well this is the first post since I moved my blog to this site, so enjoy the first sip of this blog as it will be one of many to come.  Now onto the beer review.
Poured out of a 12oz can to a glass.  First impressions are pours a cloudy blonde with a massive head, [...]

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Had this out of a 22oz bottle poured into a glass. Pours a deep dark amber almost brown hue. A small head which doesn’t last more than a 1-5 minutes (depends on temperature of beer when poured). A roasted malt almost nutty character comes at the palate off the bat almost that reminiscent of roasted [...]

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Had this out of a growler poured into a glass. I had filled at the brewery down in Escondido, this beer was nothing like the original smoked porter. It was extremely creamy, with a lovely taste of roasted malt balanced by a subtle vanilla characteristic, not like vanilla syrup but like a vanilla plant. Huge [...]

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