- The Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer: Still completely ridiculous, still definitely great Not remembering shit is a common side effect of FOBAB, as I pointed out in my thorough but barely coherent review. These beers are more than a match for the puny human brain, but I still managed to write more than 1,700 words about them.
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Cerveza de los Muertos: Where did this stuff come from? If you’re a remotely normal person, you spent exactly no time wondering how this “Mexican Craft Beer” appeared so suddenly on shelves all over Chicago. But I am not remotely normal, and after a weekend of half-assed Internet sleuthing, I concluded that Cerveza de los Muertos most likely comes from Molson Coors.
DryHop may not need a good review, but they’re getting one When DryHop opened in June, people descended on the place in such numbers that I figured any recommendation I might give would be entirely gratuitous. But I went ahead and wrote a positive review, and DryHop has kept right on earning it—most recently I had the pleasure of drinking My Mirrors Are Black, a brilliant Cuban-inspired coffee-guava stout.
Brace yourselves: Here come Goose Island’s 2013 Bourbon County variants My advance review of the calamitously hyped Bourbon County variants was the Reader‘s fifth most read post of the year—that’s counting everything on the blog, not just Beer and Metal entries. Visitors spent an average of five minutes and 45 seconds on the page—not the best that one of my posts has done, but almost quadruple the site average. Which suggests that most people are actually reading all 2,600+ words. I mean, thanks, everybody, but aren’t you worried you’re getting as crazy as I am?
First, you should take a look at this post from Guys Drinking Beer, who’ve written about their top ten beers of 2013. There’s no way I could compile such a list, since I haven’t been keeping notes all year, and as such I don’t feel like I’m stepping on my own toes by telling you to read theirs.
