If you are stuck in Houston, more pity to you. It has renown only for being less suck than Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, and less hipster than Marfa or Marble Falls. But if you like hot, wet, and flat places which are more international than the UN, it might warm your heart.
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It baffles the mind as to why someone would try to open a killer pub in Houston, but Cecil’s Pub comes from an older time, when Houston had culture (Anglo nerd pioneer cowboy) and was a small city instead of the place people go when they fail in Los Angeles and New York.
2 CommentsTags: beer, cecil's pub, jonah herd
Chinese products often imitate and build upon those in the West, and Tsingtao improves upon the American adjunct lager — beer made with rice or corn as the primary fermenting grains — by making a lighter, cereal-like version of Corona Extra with a little fizz and spice to keep it interesting.
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Wait, where are the metal reviews? you ask. Metal is dead with a few exceptions, and while we wait for those to come along, we eugenically remove lies and promote related things which may show you the emerging culture of resistance to herd logic.
3 CommentsTags: beer, manhattan beer company, manhattan project brewing company, porter
Comically, a revered microbrewery decided to make a Steel Reserve clone, but use upscale ingredients like a restaurants in the Heights would, of course. And so you have “Flaked Maize” instead of the surplus corn that built the malt liquor industry.
17 CommentsTags: beer, eureka heights brewery, malt liquor
Another one of those nice 1980s American adjunct beers, Karbach Crawford Bock tastes like old school Budweiser complete with faint overtones of squash decay and vinegar bitterness, but mostly a sweetness and easy of consumption that makes it hard to choke down like Coke or Sprite.
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Famous for its bitter hipster IPAs, Karbach Brewing Company attempts something slightly different with this beer, a wheat and barley based adjunct beer that like Modelo Especial, delivers a thin but pleasant taste, although in this case, without undo sweetness, fermentation artifacts, or bitterness.
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We try to review only the relevant around here and dismiss the bad with short reviews, but this may be the worst beer I have ever tasted. Short review: bitter IPA with pineapple and soap flavors and undertones of perfume that makes this more vomitous than the cheapest Pabst clone.
1 CommentTags: imperial IPA, st arnold
Upon first taste, 1980s Michelob; middle-taste is a little bit sweeter; finishing taste has more citrus and a fizzy, spicy lingering hybrid of aroma and flavor. This beer goes down easy because nothing in its taste profile conflicts with the rest of its flavor edifice.
1 CommentTags: beer, imperial IPA, IPA, new belgium brewery, voodoo ranger
If you want a gentle introduction to the Cambridge Five spy scandal which effectively gutted the upper classes of Britain and savaged the faith of its ordinary citizens in the Establishment, consider The Real Spies Among Friends, a documentary of psychology as much as spycraft.
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