Rivertown Brewing Co. Helles Lager

Look guys, this beer is just really, very good.  Go drink some right now.  I'm not kidding, stop reading this post and go drink a bottle, and your day will be better for it. 

Rivertown Breing Co. Here-weizen

Rivertown Brewing Co. What ales you?

Hefe-Weizen- an old world Bavarian style, top frememted wheat ale. It has a full body, refreshing taste, and savory aromas of sweet male, spicy cloves and fresh bananas. it is bottle conditioned and naturally cloudy. Best  served at 40F in a wheat glass with a slice of lemon. Enjoy!

rivertownbrewery.com

The Rivertown Brwing mpany is a locally-owned micro-brewery specializing in traditional handcrafted ales and lagers. We brew with only the tinest import and domestical malted barely, choice hopa sn pure water. our beer is carefully hand-crafted an is never pasturized giving our beer a distinctly fresh cloacor.

Whatever this beer claims is true! It tastes of delicious bananas, and is still drinkable when it starts to warm up!

BA-NA-NAH
 

A Little Research on Beer

Just in case you were questioning whether or not to have that drink, here's some info to help you decide:

Beer is one of the best nutritional sources of silicon, which is essential for bones. As little as 10 fl oz a day could help prevent osteoporosis, which cases more than 200,000 fractures ever year, most of them in women.

There's more good news about beer: recent research reveals that the hops used in traditional brewing are a good source of phyoestrogens, which are natural plant hormones that ALSO protect against osteoporosis. If you want really strong bones, have a piece of cheese and a glass of beer with your lunch. The calcium in the cheese along with the silicon and phytoestrogens in the beer are perfect bone-builders.

Beer is also rich in vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid, which many women lack in their diets, all of which lead to faster growing, stronger hair and nails (plus it makes your unborn babies not mutants). As a bonus, hops have a natural antibiotic action that kills Helicobacter pylori bacterium, which is the cause of most gastric ulcers. With lots of potassium but little sodium, sensible quantities of beer can be good for blood pressure.

So have a beer, any beer.

*All information from SuperFoods: Nutreint-dense Foods to Protect Your Health by Michael van Straten and Barbara Griggs

Periodic Table of Beer Styles

Buffalo Bill's America's Original Pumpkin Ale

Ale brewed with REAL pumpkin and natural spice flavors

Huh, okay.  Whatever you say Buffalo Bill.  This is the second Buffalo Bill beer we've tried, and while pretty tasty, it really didn't live up to the standard placed by the Buffalo Bill's Oranges and Awesome beer.  It did taste of delicious pumpkins, but tasted less like pie than the Dogfish Head Punk'in Ale.  A bit more sour and less sweet and less nutmeg pie spice taste. It tasted in fact like plain pumpkin, which everyone knows is not that awesome. Not bad, but not something we've made a regular drinking beer here at the EBB.  

That being said, the majority of  that six pack has been sitting in Laura's fridge slowly going the route of all unwanted beers- into the pot. We've made a very satisfying chili out if it just this Monday, used it in some stir fry, and dumped a whole bottle into our Mardi Gras Jambalaya. Delicious.

Please Stand By!

While we're working on some new posts, please enjoy this awesome flow chart compliments of Geekologie.  

Epic Mailing List

Beth and I are hard at work on 11 new posts of awesome and awful beers. In the meantime, if you would like to be part of our brand new Epic Beer Mailing List, send us an email with your mailing address to epicbeerblog@gmail.com

This is not your parents mailing list, this is guaranteed handmade awesome from us to you.

Superbowl Pirate Beer Special!

Pirate Beer Special...that happens to coincide with the Superbowl!

As always, we found ourselves at Biggs, staring longingly at the spot where the jug of beer used to be.  And then we saw it!  A chest of treasure hidden in the beer!  

But, we're too full of food and beer right now to finish this post.  So we're just going to post this as a "preview" and get back to you later.  Happy National Commercial Day everyone! 

We love this beer so much!

We love this beer so much.

Why do we love it so much?  Because it tastes like oranges and awesome. 

At first, I wasn't sure about a beer that advertised it tasted like oranges and cream, I imagined something halfway between Sunkist orange soda and Miller Lite.  Something epically Not Awesome. Luckily, Laura talked me into it.  It was great!  Light and fruity, and totally worth the trip to the Party Source! 

Unfortunately, the scores were listed on that same yellow envelope the Dogfish Head Punkin Ale scores were written on.  You know, that same one that was lost when Kat and JM were here...I'm pretty sure the couch ate it. 

Anyway...Here's what their website says about it:

Okay, so I can't get their website to load, something about needing flash player...which I have downloaded, updated, and successfully installed three times now.  Just...just look it up yourself okay?  I'm sorry.  Here:  http://tinyurl.com/y952ws4  

Or, just go get some of the beer yourself.  Trust me on this one.  It tastes like flowers.



Update: So apparently every one in six of these tastes like soap.  Don't let this deter you, the other 5 are still delicious.   

Hornsby's Amber Draft Hard Cider

for those Friday nights when you're too depressed to drink real beer.

I give it a 10 in every category. All of them

Throwback Post!

While looking for pictures to submit to a local gallery I stumbled upon this. Our very first adventure as the Beth and Laura's Epic Beer Blog team!!!!


We weren't very good at this back then....


(Please don't expect a review of all of those beers you see. It was a long, long time ago!)

Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

We tried Dogfish Head's Punkin Ale as part of a beer tasting extravaganza to celebrate my (Laura's) birthday, way back in November.

I'm not going to lie, we tasted way too many beers for me to remember anything about it. We wrote our rankings down on the envelope to a birthday card I had gotten. I can tell you it was yellow and I took it over to Beth's house when Kat and JM were here. That is all I know.

I can say with certainty that Punkin was delicious. Not HOW delicious, but at least vaguely delicious.

Since I am useless, let me tell you about the information I found on the Dogfish Head site.

"A full-bodied brown ale with smooth hints of pumpkin and brown sugar. We brew our Punkin Ale with pumpkin meat, organic brown sugar and spices. This is the perfect beer to warm-up with, as the season cools."

They also have some awesome links to the Punkin Chukin that the beer is named after and the Discovery Channel videos of it.

I could go on plagarizing things from the Punkin Ale site, or I can just post this message from the maker of Dogfish head.

Enjoy:

They claim the following, and we couldn't agree more:

Food Pairing Recommendations: Turkey, roasted duck, lamb, stuffing, dessert dumplings (we had Laura's Taco Soup and more beer)

Glassware Recommendation: Pint (We put ours in the freezer, as you can see above)

Tasting Notes: Malty, pumpkin, caramel, brown sugar (I guess that must be why we like it!)

We will get back to you on rankings when we find our notes (or more Punkin Ale to retaste).

We are working on a backlog of posts, promise.

But until we managed to finish them, here is something to hold you over:

20 Things Worth Knowing about Beer 

Courtesy of The Oatmeal.