I drank a pint of Karbach Brewing Co.’s Rodeo Clown Double IPA in Houston, Texas, after going to my first-ever Major League Baseball game. Now the Astros are just two wins away from winning their first-ever World Series title. Coincidence? Most definitely. ABV: 9.5% IBU: 85 Hops: German Magnum, Amarillo, Citra, Cascade, East Kent Goldings, […]
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One of the first beers I had on my recent trip to the “Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free” was this delightfully-named Hopadillo American IPA by Karbach Brewing Co. I was sitting at a tremendous Tex-Mex bar and restaurant on Main Street in downtown Houston, and I remember wondering why they […]
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ABV: 3.7% What: A very good mate of mine gave me a Bach Brewing gift pack consisting of four of the Auckland craft brewery’s finest beers for my 31st birthday. “They’re for drinking up at the bach,” he told me, which is exactly where I imbibed this little number. It was a stunning day in […]
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As a 33-year-old man with a penchant for good beer, GABS is about the closest I ever get to feeling like the proverbial “kid in a candy store”. The only trouble is, there are just so many beers and so little time to sample them all in. Still, I tried my best to imbibe a […]
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So it’s the day after the inaugural GABS Beer, Cider & Food Fest in Auckland and, well, let’s just say I probably need to dry out for a couple of days after I packed about as much beer tasting into one four-hour session as I possibly could. That’s right. From about 1-5pm I managed to […]
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