Colonial Spirits is pleased to offer our first exclusively brewed beer, made by OPA OPA Brewing – Tavern Disorder Porter! Available in growlers, while supplies last – only $9.99+dep
Colonial Spirits is pleased to offer our first exclusively brewed beer, made by OPA OPA Brewing – Tavern Disorder Porter! Available in growlers, while supplies last – only $9.99+dep
The Mayans predict that the world will come to an end in 2012. At Colonial Spirits, we thought this would be a great time to discuss what drink we’d want to go out with. In this video, Nicolay, Nic, and Tim tell us what they’d be sipping on that final day. Nicolay would enjoy a…
I love drinking beer. I also love being a purveyor of beer. There are so many enthusiasts out there who I have been pleased to meet and talk beer with. Finding great beer and getting it to these people is a lot of fun. A recent trend in the beer market is one that marketing…
The other day I was approached in the beer aisle by a customer looking for Stout. I was immediately fired up to get into the wonderful world of stout beer with an eager drinker. Stout has really come into a style of its own, but was originally the term for the strongest (or stoutest) porters. …
Following my last post about hops, I thought it fitting to consider a relatively new trend in brewing – the Black IPA. This style falls somewhere between Porter and Stout and strives for IPA like qualities. The fact that it is called an IPA may speak more to the marketing draw associated with ‘IPA’ than…
September 17th, 1-5pm The famous Colonial Spirits Oktoberfest celebration is coming up on Saturday, September 17th. This year we’ll celebrate the kick-off of the actual Oktoberfest in Germany on the same day (they start on the 17th at 12am)! There will be dozens of O-fest and Pumpkin beers to try. As well as free food…
Are hops overused? Whoa, perhaps this is an incendiary question. Why, then, am I posing it? Well, I am doing so indirectly, as it was posed to me by our friend, the famous oenophile, Nic Haegeli. Nic knows what he is talking about, for sure. Nic also enjoys challenging the practices of modern wine makers…
We hear quite a bit about the ‘Craft Beer Movement’. ‘Craft beer’ is everywhere and, in the industry, people just cannot stop talking about the continually increasing sales in that market. With all this clamor about craft beer and with new breweries springing up all over the place I see an interesting, almost desperate, trend…
Amber Ale is a ‘style’ typically referring to a pale ale with some amount of crystal malt added to create the amber or copper color. It also very much seems to me to be a generic term used to classify any beer that is not either IPA/Pale or Stout/Porter. An expectation of beer drinkers often…
Every year I see more and more beer coming in cans. About 2 years ago I wrote about good beer coming in cans and how excited I was about this. At that point it was mainly Oskar Blues from CO spearheading the craft can movement. 21st Amendment from CA was another early adapter and has…
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