When I was young most American beer was a moderate alcohol lager, with a few brewers making a higher alcohol "malt liquor" to satisfy local laws left over from prohibition. Much of the brew available I considered swill. As a young adult choices improved a little, In domestic beer Ballentine expanded their variety to include an IPA which was aged a year in oak casks, and a brown ale which was one of the finest examples of that style I've tasted in 40 years or so. There was a little European stock, but for the most part it was shipped in bottles, warm, on ships. Not good. There was Canadian beer and ale, but much of it was "brewed for American tastes" and was no better than domestic. Occasionally, living close to Canada in the days before America became a police state, someone would go and by what the Canadians drank, and bring it home.
I have been publishing a beer blog since 2005, on my own server which I run with administrative help from a cat. But I guest host a number of non-profit organizations, posts should include more images, and my bandwidth is getting thin, which makes me unwilling to look for more users and unable to include the images I'd like to in my beer reviews. So brave new world I'm moving here, and combining my beer reviews with a blog which started as a USENET mailing list in about 1990. Other than labeling my beer posts, opinions, and rants, you get what you find.
Since I am a home brewer, you will, at times, find comments on that both practice (what you should do or could do) and experience (what I did instead, or how I learned a trick).
I hope people find this blog useful, or amusing, or something. Feedback wanted and welcomed.
