After the trifecta of Heavy Seas barleywines last month, I have been on a search for more of these heavy-handed brews…They seem to just mesh perfectly with the end of Winter and transition into Spring and warmer weather.

This brew has been on my beer wishlist since last winter because I have heard so many great things about it.  How stoked was I to find it last week, and in a big 22 oz bomber!

I have sampled the base brew of this collection a couple times in the past, and was pretty impressed with the result. But never before have I been able to taste three different versions of the same beer.

I hope everyone out there had an awesome Christmas and New Year’s celebration and got everything you asked Santa for! One of the things I asked for (not really, but it has been on my beer wishlist since 2006!) and finally got was this beer!

Tonight I am cracking open a big beer that I should have probably sampled a few months ago. Printed right on the side is the bottling date, “August 2011″ and in bold print beneath it reads, “Enjoy Fresh”. Dangit!

I love Thanksgiving – more specifically, I love food. Fortunately for me, I get to eat Thanksgiving dinner three times. . . All of them, of course, will be celebrated with lots of craft beer!

I am done with pumpkin brews for now, and as the weather starts to FINALLY get colder I begin reaching for increasing darker, heavier beers.

I sampled my 1,000th craft beer this week, and to celebrate the arrival of this milestone I wanted to pick out a special beer. Not one that couldn’t be topped – I’m not stopping at this point after all! – but one that held some significance and would be somewhat rare.