OK, I found this video and thought I'd share it with y'all. It's a very strange this they've done here with a pretty surprising and funny result. Anyhoo, this is why you don't microwave a box of wine for five minutes. I'm pulling the video from another website so if it disappears, yell at the folks over at break.com :).


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If you like a beer that'll smack you right in the gob with over the top hoppyness, I think I've got something for you. Rogue brewings Yellow Snow IPA includes the kind of bitterness that kicks off it's shoes and gets comfortable with no intention of leaving anytime soon. This bad boy is a cloudy dark golden colour and has a big hoppy, fruity, floral aroma. That head you get wont be going anytime soon either, it just stays right put! Rogue has a knack for making really good stuff and they haven't failed here, Yellow Snow is one for the bar, and buy extra, it'll sell well.

4.0 of 5 pint rating from The Beer Guys.

The Beer Guys would like to wish all our friends and fans a very Merry Christmas! Hope the season finds you close with friends and family. Enjoy responsibly. Love, The Beer Guys.

This may seem a bit out of the blue, but I figured, being who we are, we had to make a statement regarding the RCMP Corporal Benjamin Montgomery (Monty) Robinson case.

Last year, Cpl Robinson was involved in an accident in Tsawwassen B.C. As I understand the circumstances, immediately after the accident, involving a motorcyclist who did not survive, Cpl Robinson gave his drivers license to a nearby witness, left the scene of the accident, took a couple of shots of vodka, then returned to the scene of accident. Once the police arrived, Cpl Robinson was given a breathalyzer test, and failed. The Delta police who investigated the accident recommended charges of impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death. The Crown disagreed, and is laying a charge of attempted obstruction of justice

Does this make sense to you? Lets just go over this again one more time.

RCMP officer kills man on motorcycle, before police arrives shoots back a couple, then gets off because there's no proof that he was impaired before he took the shots.

It occurs to me that an RCMP officer wouldn't be inclined to drink before the police arrived for fear of looking like he was impaired behind the wheel. It further occurs to me that an RCMP officer would be aware that this tactic is commonly used by impaired drivers in order to get off of impaired driving charges.

Now I really didn't want to advertise methods by which drivers can avoid charges. The Beer Guys don't encourage drinking and driving. I'm bringing this to light here to spotlight the methods by which a man is getting away with killing another man and seems to me he should be doing time. As a motorcyclist myself, this story has offended me on a few different levels. Motorcyclists generally know that we are very exposed out there and we have to be more careful than other people on the road. Usually the ones that do get into accidents are riding a bit dumb, but also they are the first to be pointed at in cases where they cause the accident. I don't see that here. As a matter of fact I haven't heard much about the accident other than Cpl Robinson acting terribly inappropriately, as far as anyone knows the motorcyclist was following the rules of the road at the time.

This is a terrible injustice. The Beer Guys would like to point at the fact that when you drink and drive, you become a weapon pointed at your neighbors, friends, and family. We sincerely hope justice can be served in this case, and that the loophole allowing people to get away with killing other people on the road is closed. I think perhaps a stiff jail term for people who drink between the time of the accident and the arrival of police is in order. Lets keep the precious art of beer tasting out of the drivers seat, it's to hard to concentrate on hops during left turns anyways.

Our thanks go out to Christy Clark for bring the attention of people across Canada to bear on this case.

Sometimes it's quite nice to have a brew that reminds you a bit of the sunrise and singing birds when the sun has set before 5:00pm and you spend most of your day in darkness, so we picked up a Mill Street Coffee Porter.

Porters are Stouts long lost uncle that are a bit harder to find nowadays, but were quite easy to find about two hundred years ago in and around London.

Mill St. Coffee Porter Introduced itself with a black, deep color and low, mysterious aroma. Very little coffee could be had in the nose. The head dissipated fairly quickly (the one on the left had been poured first from the same bottle) and left almost nothing in lattice. On tasting the body was medium to medium full with some munich or roasted barley malts in the mouth. The was some coffee flavor to be had in the finish, but that too dissipated fairly quickly and cleanly. All in all a bit of an underwhelming brew once all was said and done. Now dont get us wrong, the presentation is quite good! The bottle hearkens back to the Poppe Shop and has a very nice label promising great things. This is a brew marketed well that we wanted to like! The thinness of the body and absense of aftertaste have left us just a touch underwhelmed however. I was expecting more in the coffee aftertaste and TBone was looking more for a heavier body and maybe a bit less in carbonation, and more in the lattice.

This brew earns a 2.5 out of 5 from the Beer Guys.

Goodbye Berlin wall, hello Rogue Smoke Ale! A translucent ale glowing an orange gold color, this one definitely lives up to its name. It tastes like the malts may have been left in the heater either too long, or on too high a heat. The body is medium full, and betrays the unfiltered nature. It's rated at 48 IBUs, but the malt somewhat overcomes the hoppiness in the finish. I got a hint of cirtus, but someone had decided to sit down next to me as I was enjoying the brew and slice up a lemon. I almost put a stop to the tasting right there, but it's been weeks since something has gone up here, so on with the show. Carbonation in this brew seems low, with a quickly receding head and no lattice to speak of.dont let that detract from the complexity of the experience though, the Rogue guys have made a beer that, beside the smokey flavor, holds a delicious character.

ABV was not listed on the bottle, but the brew specs are. Plato, or the ratio of fermentable malts to water, can be divided by 2.5 to get an approximate alcohol content. This gives me 5.8%.

Ingredients list is refreshingly complete, listing not just hops, but Saaz, perle, and Rogue farmed hops

Earns 4/5 pints from the one Beer Guys available

One last thing, if you live in Canada, this beer goes at just over $9.00 a pop. If you like you beer good, it's worth it!

Today brought something of a treat as TBone and I hadn't tasted for awhile, so we each brought an offering to the table. Todays tasting is a double!

We started with something that prompted the fellow behind me in line to comment "Ah the Wee Heavy, that one's a classic." I have to admit it seems that the man wasn't lying. This beer has a bold character reminiscent of classic English and Scottish pub ales. It has a very nice dark amber, rusty brown color, and the aroma is invitingly sweet, carried on a high volume of carbon dioxide. Its full body delivers a clean, malty flavor with caramel overtones that last into the finish. There's very little hop, and we suspect what hops were used were probably of a Fuggle or Kent Goldings variety. Something with a low alpha acid content just to hint at bitterness. A 6.5% ABV will put a bit of a shine on your day once the last of this smooth brew has hit the liver.

All in all this is an enjoyable sipping beer that sticks well to the traditional pub brew. TBone gives this a 3.25 pint rating while I am a touch more generous at a 3.5 pint rating. I may just pick this one up again even though I'm not a big fan of the sweeter, malty beers.

The second beer in todays offering is Pike Extra Stout, brought to the BBQ by TBone.

In a successful attempt to impress us, Pike brewing has done something neither of the Beer Guys has seen before. They put the original gravity right on the bottle. While we didn't immediately pull out an hydrometer, this would allow us to test the ABV of the brew, matching it to what's printed on the lable. Way to prove yourselves guys! The beer itself is an inky black, allowing not even the smallest amount of light through to the eye. The head is nice and creamy, leaving a lovely brussels lattice with a caramel brown coloring. Interestingly, the lattice showed quite well on my stein, while TBones pint didn't show much at all. The beer strikes the palette with burnt espresso and a big hoppiness, living up to the advertised 65 IBU rating. Carbonation is low, as is characteristic of this type of beer. You wont be finding many beers with a fuller flavor than this, and I'm looking forward to trying more from the Pike folks

This big bold brew earns a 3.75 pint rating from me, while TBone raises the bar just a touch to a 3.85 pint rating. Happy tasting

So I'm cleaning off my desk this morning, and after about an hour of shovelling come across some notes from an old tasting. I guess sometimes tasting too much will have the idea of posting just fall right out of your head! The notes are for Phillips Brewings Amnesiac Double IPA. I seem to recall that this is one of the first we tasted before the Saturday ritual became what it is today. Since I dont have a bottle in front of me, I'm going to just slap down my notes here:

This IPA has a nice deep copper coloring with little head off the pour. There's a fresh, floral hop aroma and full mouth with high malt. Surprisingly clean finish. 8.5% ABV that tastes like 5%. Earns 4/5 pints.

Well, it's to the point anyways. Kinda like the cliffs notes of beer tasting!

So I'm wandering through a local beer store and I stumble upon a Croation brew called Ozujsko. There's no description on the can as to what is in it other than the words "Croatian" and "Beer", I'm fairly sure the word "Quality" was on there too. Not a lot of the writing was in english. Upon seeing it I thought, 'Alright, I'm game!'.

I'll tell you now I was expecting a Budweisery experience. I figured if they shipped it this far it was just to get it as far away from the country as possible. I was pleasantly surprised at the grainy, rough around the edges flavour of this beer. I don't think there's anything brewed in Canada I can compare it with. The malts must be made by tossing barley in between two circular stones being turned by a donkey or something to achieve the rough texture in the back of the mouth but it's not a bad thing at all. I would say it sits somewhere between a lager and a Pilsner, but with a natural bitterness not supplied by adding hops, simply natural to the malt. A very distinct and enjoyably light golden colored brew, I recommend it for sunny afternoons.

Since TBone isn't here for this weeks tasting, I'm going to go ahead and say that this weeks beer deserves a 3.5 pint rating on the beer scale. Grab one the next time you're barbequeing and give it a try. Even better, mix it in with whatever sauce you plan on marinating with! I would be willing to bet that it would add layers to the taste while softening the meat nicely!

It's pretty hard to see in the small picture included here, but at the top of the label on Lagunitas brewerys Hop Stoopid ale are the words "102 IBU 4 U". Those in the know might shudder a bit, for those who aren't, IBU stands for International Bitterness Unit. The more bitter beers on the market, like the India Pale Ales, will hover in the 40 - 60 IBU range. That will give you an idea of what these folks are trying to say. They dont call Hop Stoopid an IPA, probable because it goes beyond what a good IPA should be. Which is very, very bitter. The good folks a Lagunitas, however have managed to balance the huge hoppiness with full bold malts that impart a big, big mouthfeel. More than you would expect by judging just the light coppery color. The head holds on fairly steady and leaves a great big Brussels lattice behind as you drink. This is a beer that will definitely be seeing my fridge door again, and earns a big solid 4/5 pints from the Beer Guys!

Oh, and careful with this one, a 8.0 ABV will leave you a bit wobbly after a pint. Drink safe!