Bottle/Tap: Bottle I do enjoy a good coffee beer, and I’m glad to say that this ale is a good coffee beer.  Peak Organic makes one great brown ale that I’ve enjoyed from Strangebrew, but I had never seen their espresso ale before.  I felt that I needed to become better acquainted with the beer and bought a bottle to take home and sample at my leisure.  When it comes to beer sampling you cannot rush semi-perfection. This ale is made with Fair Trade certified organic coffee; no free-range beans died while they made this beer, they were all home grown.  I...

Bottle/Tap: Bottle Nothing says history like a cool beer, as Sackets Harbor Brewing claims on their label; history never tasted so good, and they are right.  The same friend who procured the Yuengling Lager also gave a few bottles of this interesting amber ale.  Name alone gives this beer some points and the overall taste wasn’t bad either. This beer comes to us from Sackets Harbor, New York, and you can’t find it anywhere in the southern New Hampshire area.  Now, I’m not a history buff, but I do know that the War of 1812 did happen a long time ago., it...

Bottle/Tap: Bottle As usual, it wouldn’t be a month if I didn’t review at least one Dogfish Head brew, and this is a good one.  Palo Santo is Spanish for ‘Holy Wood’. Typically found in South America, this phrase can refer to several different species of tree.  This wood was used to create beer barrels able to hold 10,000 gallons each in the time before Prohibition.  Nowadays, 10,000 gallons is nothing, but 100 years ago, that was an incredible capacity for brewing. This beer is dark; you would have thought I poured molasses into my glass.  At 12% I could smell the...