A bitter Englishman records his beer journey of more than 40 years, the last 23 of which have been in the USA
Beers in the database:
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Allagash Curieux
(Bourbon Barrel-Aged Tripel)
Allagash Brewing Company
12/01/2007
Sensible Beer Talk is Back
Ding’s Rants
Recent and/or Popular Posts
Things I'm just not going to do, in 2023, as a legacy beer drinker
Legacy drinkers and the assault on Belgium, England and Germany
Birdboy Brewing Co.
- Phoenix Rising
in Fort Wayne
Purity, skin in the game, and when Capitalism spits on you
An Englishman and a Scotsman walk into an American brewery
Session Beer - an amalgamation of years and years of thoughts
Never meet your heroes. The death of elite beer bars?
Beer is Promoting Community in Goshen, Indiana
Shipping beer from Belgium to the USA. Recent experiences
Fortlandia - a true nano production in Fort Wayne, Indiana
More than a decade removed, beeradvocate still banning!
Come Into My Parlor. A chat with Chris Bryant of Parlor City Brewing
Ding’s Six Pack
The 6 Most Recent Reviews
Fantôme Rare
BarleyDark Project
The usual presentation, 750mL corked and capped. Chestnut brown pour - conker like. Thick,...
Fantôme
Esprit Valdotèn
Pour is a butterscotch colored body with a nice, substantial white head. Decent retention and...
Logsdon Two Rivers
Violette
Much the same as its sister beer, Two Rivers Noir in many respects. After cracking the cap there...
Tsjeeses Reserva
(Porto Barrel Aged)
I don't understand this beer. Vintage 2020, bottled on 15/11/22 and good for 5 years out. Now...
Duchesse
Petite
11.2 oz can, from Belgian Style Ales here in the US. Pour is as expected with the Coke like head...
La Moneuse
Triple X 30 Ans
750 mL corked and caged from Etre Gourmet. Red cap on the cage has dot-matrixed "U2 02:22 TRIPLE...
The Past. The Present. The Future.
Here’s the complete blog archive with all of the posts from 2011 until today. In addition, you’ll see posts broken down into more specific categories in the Blog Menu. What kind of content can you expect here at Ding’s Beer Blog going forward? What’s the newer content likely to look like? What kind of opinions and writing can you reasonably expect? Here’s a heads-up.
The Past.
No BS please, frankly I’ve seen it all before
I am not a kid either in terms of my chronological age or my beer experience. There are a lot of movers and shakers in beer these days who weren’t born when I was drinking Bass from the wood with my dad, that were in elementary school when I was traveling to Belgium twice a year for beer, and that were only just starting puberty when I was critiquing the fledgling US craft beer scene two decades ago. (Don’t worry, I know that most of you don’t care). So what? Just don’t bother me with your BS.
The Present.
I’ll drink (almost) any beer at least once, but …
Drinking something that you know that you probably won’t like just because it’s there, or just because it’s the current flavor of the month is frankly, dumb. What does that mean for me and DBB? Well, likely that I’m going to come down hard against hazy ‘IPAs’, that I’ll be ultra-critical of the non-descript, lazy ‘fruited sours’, that I’ll be hating on milkshake ‘IPAs’, and more often than not pissing all over pastry stouts. I’m a traditionalist, a defender of classic styles, and not a fickle, Johnny-come-lately.
The Future.
The Fort Wayne & North-East IN beer scene critiqued
With the re-launch of the website you’ll likely find an emphasis on the beer scene in and around Fort Wayne and north-east Indiana, as I get back to reviewing and commenting on the beer (and the beer scene) that’s close to me. Expect to read my opinions about what’s going on here, but don’t expect blanket praise. If you’re a local brewery or brewer you’ll need to earn the kudos. Local beer is most definitely not necessarily good beer, and expect no punches to be pulled; no beer given a pass.