Sunday, October 10, 2010

10 Great Halloween Beers!



In Honor of Halloween coming up, I thought I'd just put up another post with 10 of the top rated Halloween Beers brewed for this year's halloween! Hope you all enjoy and be safe!

1. Gritty McDuff's Halloween Ale
2. New Hollands Ichabod
3. Reaper Deathly Pale Ale
4. Alesmith Evil Dead Red
5. Wychwood's Wychcraft
6. Great Lakes Nosferatu
7. Fantome's Black Ghost
8. Rogue's Dead Guy
9. Young's Old Nick
10. MoorHoueses's Pendle Witches Brew

DAILY RECIPE: FREDDY KRUGER
1/2 oz sambuca
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz jagermeister
mix all three in a chilled glass and enjoy!

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Pumpkin Flavored Beers


Since it's October, that means a few things! One of them being Halloween is right around the corner, which means Oktoberfest and the bringing about of many new flavored seasonal beers.
Today I'd like to name a few pumpkin flavored beers that you might enjoy.
1. The Great Pumpkin (Ale) (Washington, USA)
2. Hipp-O-Latern (Ale) (New Jersey, USA)
3. Treat (A Chocolate pumpkin porter) (Alaska, USA)
4. Pumking (Ale) (New York, USA)
5.Schlafly Pumpkin (Ale) (Missouri, USA)
6. Painted Ladies Pumpkin Spice (Ale) (Wisconsin, USA)
7. Dark O' The Moon (Ale) (Washington, USA)
8. Night Owl (Ale) (Washington, USA)
9. Pumple Drumkin (Ale) (Massachusetts, USA)
10. Dogfish head craft Punkin (Ale) (USA)

You can find more information on these beers at http://www.beeradvocate.com/

DAILY RECIPE : PUMPKIN PIE
1/2 oz Kahlua
1/2 oz Baileys
1/4 oz Cinnamon Schnapps

Oktober Fest


Well Oktober fest in Germany celebrated it's 200th anniversary this year where over six million people visited with several different beer tents set up!

According to http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2010/09/oktoberfest_blind_tasting.php
The top 5 best Oktober fest beers in taste test result are:
1. Paulaner Oktober (Munich, Germany)
2. Schönramer Festbier (Schonramer, Germany)
3. Sam Adams Oktoberfest (Cincinatti, Ohio)
4. Weihenstephaner Oktoberfest (Munich, Germany)
5. Spaten Oktoberfest (Munich, Germany)

DRINK RECIPE FOR TODAY: GERMAN CHOCOLATE
1 oz Frangelico
1 oz Absolut Vodka
slice of lemon
sugar