beer Archives

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Black Dynomite Black IPA Brewery: 902 Brewing Co. ABV: 7% 902 Brewing is a hometown brewery, based out of Hoboken, New Jersey Naturally, I am about anything New Jersey related (with the exception of our petty governor), so I have to support my local breweries They have put out some good stuff and their Black[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Eric More Cowbell! Chocolate Milk Stout Brewery: SingleCut Beersmiths ABV: 6% It would have been virtually impossible for me to say no to an offering of this beer Given my enjoyment of several classic Saturday Night Live Sketches, Eric More Cowbell! offered me an opportunity to enjoy a beer and think fondly back on some[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Geyser Gose Brewery: Two Roads Brewing Company/Evil Twin Brewing ABV: 5.5% Notes: brewed with Icelandic moss, herbs, kelp and sea salt Let's start the year off with a good, albeit somewhat oddball, beer.  Two Roads Brewing, out of Stratford, CT, has collaborated with Evil Twin to produce the Geyser Gose, a unique twist on a gose[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Wet Hot American Wheat Ale Brewery: Finch's Beer Co. ABV: 5% Recently I have been commuting through Penn Station a lot and to my amazement, I have been making a couple of pretty good beer finds On my most recent outing, my eyes caught a can that I had to get if only for the[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Booze Geek Special Beer: The Defender Brewery: Brooklyn Brewery ABV: 6.7% The Brooklyn Brewery has now, for four years, worked with New York Comic Con to create The Defender, a beer that represents not just the con itself, but also super heroics. Garret Oliver, Brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, Milton Glaser, DC Comics logo designer, and Cliff Chiang, renowned[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez  Booze Geek Special Beer: The Walking Dead Blood Orange IPA Brewery: Terrapin Beer Co. ABV: 6.7% It was only a matter of time Zombies have infiltrated every nook and cranny of our society The Walking Dead has become one of the most successful shows of all time People love beer and people love The Walking Dead[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Master of Pumpkins Brewery: Troegs Independent Brewing ABV: 7.9% With the Halloween spirit flying through the air, it is only fitting that I have littered my fridge with pumpkin beer I have already explored the Two Road's Roadsmary's Baby, now I have moved onto Troeg's Master of Pumpkins. The Master of Pumpkins was a copper brown[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Dawn of the Red Brewery: Ninkasi Brewing Company I feel like this beer is a perfect brew to enjoy around this time of the year It's not quite the Walking Dead beer, but it's a good one regardless. Ninkasi Brewing Company's Dawn of the Read, an Indian-style red ale, incorporated elements from a pale ale[...]

Bethesda have announced a partnership with Carlsberg to create a run of Fallout branded beer in the UK Weirdly, you'll only be able to buy it online which you can do by pre-ordering on Amazon UK It's £29.99 for a pack of 12x330ml That's pretty expensive all told, although I've no doubt these will sell[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Mad Hatter IPA Brewery: New Holland Brewing ABV: 7% The Hatter series of beers are one of New Holland Brewing's mainstays All of them are pale ales or IPAs but with some variety added (i.e the White Hatter is a Belgian-Style White IPA) This time around, I went with the original Mad Hatter IPA, featuring[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Episode 13 B Nektar Strikes Back Brewery: B Nektar Meadery ABV: 15.5% "A long time ago, in a basement not far from Detroit… It is a dark time for the rebel army The evil empire has tightened its grip and has silenced the rebels' voice In an effort to strengthen their cause, the rebels sent out[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Quintaceratops Brewery: Brooklyn Brewery ABV: 10.9% There are quite a few beers out there inspired by the behemoths of the prehistoric age Arcade Brewery (whose Festus Rot Gut I reviewed earlier) has created the Highly Evolved, an IPA featuring a raging Tyrannosaur on the cover (artwork by Steve Luros Holliday) And Toppling Goliath offers PseudoSue,[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout Brewery: Stone Brewing Co. ABV: 13% Sometimes the pieces just fall in perfectly Turns out Wil Wheaton, of Star Trek fame and many other geeky things, is also a huge fan of craft beer Going back as far as 2004, Wheaton let the boys at Stone Brewing know what a big[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Gollum Precious Pils Brewery: Fish Brewing Company ABV: 9% As part of the release for The Hobbit Trilogy, Fish Brewing dedicated three beers to the lore of Middle Earth Through my secret connections in Cleveland, Ohio, I managed to get my hands on a bottle of the Gollum Precious Pils, an Imperial Pilsner brandishing the[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Impey Barbicane's Moon Gun Brewery: DuClaw Brewing Company ABV: 5% With the summer now in full swing, I like to keep a few session style beers on hand if it is particularly hot out and I just want something easy to drink I grabbed a pack of DuClaw's Impey Barbicane's Moon Gun to fill my[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: B.O.R.I.S the Crusher Brewery: Hoppin' Frog Brewery ABV: 9.4% Earlier on in the Booze Geek entries, I reviewed Hoppin' Frog's D.O.R.I.S the Destroyer Now, I checked out D.O.R.I.S equally bad brother, B.O.R.I.S the Crusher. B.O.R.I.S., an Imperial Oatmeal Stout, was impenetrably black in color[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Festus Rotgut Brewery: Arcade Brewery ABV: 8% I tell ya, it helps to be in a hockey league where the members are from all over the states A good chunk of us happen to be big craft beer fans, so after our games, we gather together in a hotel room and commence a bottle share[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Breaking Bud IPA Brewery: Knee Deep Brewing Co. ABV: 6.5% Sometimes these beer names are so on the nose, you just have to appreciate them. Breaking Bud produced a thick head that dissipated relatively quickly However, it left behind a long lasting, much thinner head and lots of lacing It was a golden amber color and[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Innsmouth Olde Ale Brewery: Narragansett Brewing Co. ABV: 7% In the dreary town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, things seem just a little off The mood is always down a little bit more and the people are a little gruffer In fact, you may even say they seem a little fishy with their big eyes and rank[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Trekker Pale Ale Brewery: Sebago Brewing Co. ABV: 5.3% Though brewed to support a hike across Maine, I could not help but think of a certain sci-fi classic when I ordered my pint of Trekker Pale Ale. Trekker was a bronze color and produced no head It did leave behind a ring of lacing around the[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Truth, Justice and the American Ale Brewery: Great Lakes Brewing Company ABV: 4.8% Some time back, Joel Warger of Great Lakes Brewing Company reached out to me and thanked for my write-up on their Space Belgo He told me to keep an eye out for an upcoming session IPA with a very familiar catchphrase on[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Brainless IPA Brewery: Epic Brewing ABV: 6.6% During the writing of this entry, I forced myself not to utilize a brain pun in any way shape or form It was very hard…must resist…on…to…review… Brainless had a golden amber body and produced a thick, long-lasting and foamy head[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Game of Thrones Special Beer: Three-Eyed Raven Dark Saison Brewery: Brewery Ommegang ABV: 7.2% "From the darkness I watch you, all of you, all of your lives, with a thousand eyes, and one." With the premier of season five, Ommegang has released their latest in their lineup of Game of Thrones inspired beer[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Bloodline Blood Orange IPA Brewery: Flying Dog Brewery ABV: 7% Of all the out there things that have been added into beer, blood orange has to be one of my favorites The sweet and succulent fruit adds such a fresh quality to an IPA Thus, I was very happy when I had a bottle[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Michael Axt is the head artist at Clown Shoes Beer His influences from comic books and videogames lend Clown Shoes their highly distinctive logos and bottle artwork I sent Michael some questions regarding his history with Clown Shoes and his inspirations. Dylan Gonzales: Before working as the art director at Clown Shoes, what was[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Undead Party Crasher American Imperial Stout Brewery: Clown Shoes Brewery ABV: 10% I have to give it to Clown Shoes.  They have undoubtedly some of the best beer bottle artwork in the industry.  I saw the Undead Party Crasher on the self and immediately grabbed it.  How could I say no to a bottle featuring[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Old Ruffian Barley Wine-Style Ale Brewery: Great Divide Brewing Co. ABV: 10.2% I returned to the mountains of Colorado for this week's edition of Booze Geek Though, considering the name of the brew, I probably would not have made it far up said mountain and just gotten my butt kicked at one of the local[...]

8AM, Monday February 16th, I will post a video of me chugging a beer in your honor! Check out the Time Stop Issue #1 Kickstarter here. Website/Blog and Facebook, tweet us at Tom Spellman, Rafael Chrestani, Jordi Perez Estevez, Fahriza Kamaputra and John Rudwall. Time Stop Issue #1. Writer: Tom Spellman. Art: Rafael Chrestani & Jordi Estevez. Colors: Fahriza Kamaputra. Lettering: John Rudwall. Kickstarter End Date: March 8, 2015.Est[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Beast Mode Brewery: Sixpoint Brewery ABV: 6.4% Just prior to the Super Bowl, my liquor store received a shipment of Sixpoint Beast Mode My boss stated that this should be the official beer of the Super Bowl because "Beast Mode" is what the receiver goes into when he is making an incredibly mad dash for[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Ghost Face Killah Brewery Twisted Pine Brewing Co. ABV: 5% Well, this had to happen when I saw it. It glared at me from the shelf That flaming skull teased me with a smile and red hot pepper I picked up the bottle and read the ingredients Six peppers of the burn a hole in your[...]