Danner on June 28th, 2009

Last night I had the honor of MC’ing Alabama’s first beer dinner featuring exclusively high gravity beers, in celebration of Free The Hops’ success raising the ABV limit on beer in Alabama.  The J. Clyde hosted.  Here’s a brief rundown of how the pairings faired:
Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza with a fresh garden salad mixed [...]

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Doug on January 10th, 2009

This is the flip side of Danner’s recent visit to the J Clyde where he had a Good People Brewing Co. IPA followed by an Olde Towne Amber with his fried green tomato BLT.  I also had two beers with a sandwich.  My first was the long-anticipated GPBC Coffee Oatmeal Stout.  The sandwich:  a roast [...]

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Danner on October 16th, 2008

As promised, here is my review.
It’s fantastic.
Appearance is a deep opaque dark brown. I think the coffee actually may have shifted this from black to dark brown.
Aroma is almost 100% coffee. It’s a bit shocking, actually.
The first sip is like the aroma, almost 100% coffee, and intense. And you start to think this is overdone. [...]

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