I’d been sitting on a bottle of Ommegang brewery’s Ommegeddon Funkhouse Ale with Brettanomyces for a while, thinking I should try it with some funky cheeses. Yesterday, Ms. BeerGeek, the new little BeerGeek-in-training and I were in NE Mpls. and got to Surdyk’s. Based on what I’d expected, the monger there actually suggested [...]
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Bring on the Funk: Ommegeddon
January 13, 2008By Golly, a big Jolly Cask
August 16, 2007On the same night I tried Flat Earth’s Angry Earth, I also had the opportunity to try Jolly Pumpkin’s Calabaza Blanca on cask at the Happy Gnome. I was curious to get a third taste of Jolly Pumpkin.
The first bottle, I had over a year ago when Jolly Pumpkin first was distributed in MN, was [...]
Linked, Disinfected and on to Savoring
June 6, 2007This past Sunday, two partners-in-crime and I had agreed to make and dry-cure some salami. Ms. BeerGeek (a vegatarian) wasn’t too excited about sausage making happening in our kitchen. Circumstances necessitated it, however, so she agreed, with the caveat that we disinfect the kitchen when we were done. So, when we had our sausages linked, [...]
