For those of you who are not familiar with Mr. Samuel Smith’s organic beers, allow me to introduce you. Samuel Smith’s is a small independent British brewery. It was established in 1758 and it’s also Yorkshire’s oldest brewery. Cool, huh? Samuel Smith Brewery offers a variety of ales, stouts, fruit flavored, porters, pale ales, ciders and more. What attracted me to this beer was the fact that it’s organic. That, and it comes in a big pretty bottle. But seriously, I like the fact that this beer is grown without the use of artificial fertilizers or chemical sprays. Oh … Read the rest

It’s really hard to find gluten-free beer. But so far, in my sweet town of Green Bay, I’ve found 2: Redbridge and New Grist. New Grist is the creation from Lakefront Brewery located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To read all about Lakefront Brewery click here.

New Grist, as I said, is gluten-free and the ingredients are: Sorghum and Rice Extract, Yeast, H2O and Hops.

New Grist is very light tasting, but that’s what I like. I am so not the heavy beer drinker. And after the first one I have a nice little buzzing goin’ on too. With the other … Read the rest

Redbridge is my first ever gluten-free beer. The problem I have with wheat beers is NOTHING compared to someone with Celiacs Disease or some other problem like a food allergy but if I drink something like a Blue Moon, just call me Pass Gas Priscilla. It seriously keeps me up at night, and this little mama needs her beauty sleep. Even if you’re saying, “Gross. Beer doesn’t bother me like that at all” I still suggest you try this beer. Maybe you could give your body a break from all that work to process hard grains.

Redbridge has somewhat an … Read the rest

A friend of mine brought over a sixer of beer.  I’ve never seen or heard of this Organic Porter brand either so I was pleasantly surprised to try something new.  It’s a certified organic Porter by Eel River Brewing Company.  Here’s a little trivia tidbit for you; this is America’s 1st, I’ll repeat that, 1st Certified Organic Brewing Company.  How cool is that?! Very cool.  And, and, this company practices sustainable brewing.  Back to the beer…

This Certified Organic Porter is 5.8% alcohol by volume and is a rich brown in color.  It tastes like chocolate with a … Read the rest

Time for a good ‘ol fruit ale beverage.  The last one I tried was a Sam’l Smith Cherry so why not go the same route again??  This go around I decided upon the Strawberry flavor.  I like strawberries and I like bubbly beer; it sounded like it was time to try them out together.

First off this beer is more like a big gulp.  It’s 1 pint 2.7 fluid oz (or just 18.7 fl oz) of pure organic goodness, right down to the actual strawberry juice!  The taste is sweet, just like a strawberry.  Really, they nailed that flavor dead … Read the rest

This is the best beer ever.  EVER.

I know I usually talk about organic beers and whatnot but I simply couldn’t help myself.  This fermented beverage is just too good.  To quote them directly, “This beer was first brewed back as far as the middle ages by Norbertine monks.”  Well, those monks sure knew what they’re doing!  I would never have tried this beer but my girlfriend creates websites and she does some work for the Norbertines.  It was mentioned to her to try this beer, because, well, they make it – duh.  So she did but didn’t want to … Read the rest

Now I know you’re not supposed to pick out your beers based upon cute bottles, BUT it was really cute and I simply couldn’t help myself.  Cute bottle must mean delicious beer, right?  Well…maybe not.  The beer in question was St. Peter’s Organic English Ale.

I wondered why the bottle itself caught my eye.  When I checked out their website it stated that the bottle is replica of a 500ML oval medicine type bottle that dates back to the 1770′s.  Pretty fancy.  Now let’s talk about what you really want to know: what it tastes like!

I’m not a fan … Read the rest

I like beer.  And I also like fruit.  So why not put them together?  Well, that’s at least what  the Samuel Smith Brewery thought.  This beer is made with organic wheat and organic barley combined with the tartness of organic cherry juice in this one of a kind fruit ale.
I’ve never had a fruit ale before and man, oh man, was this ever fruity!  My girlfriend and I decided to split it, just in case we didn’t like it, we only had one bottle of it and I wanted to be fair.
It comes in a heavy dark … Read the rest

My girlfriend bought a bunch of random organic beers for us to try and she was super excited about this one in particular.  It’s an espresso amber ale.  Sounds gross, right?  That’s what I thought too, until I tried it.   It tastes just like espresso.  Bubbly espresso, actually.  It’s kinda hard to describe because it doesn’t exactly taste like beer.  Not any beer I’m used to anyway.
It starts out with a coffee aroma and with your first few sips it’s like a punch in the face with the coffee taste.  A good punch.  The flavor really tickles your taste … Read the rest

New Belgium’s Mothership Wit Organic Wheat Beer

I like lite beers.  I know they taste like piss water but I don’t care.  A full bodied beer makes me feel full so tap the Rockies, I do.  That is until I got on a health food kick and I wanted to see what kind of organic beers there are out there.  Well, there are more in my hometown than I thought, which is a pleasant surprise.  The first sixer I picked out was Mothership Organic Wit which hails from the New Belgium family.  You might know them by their more popular … Read the rest