Viewing by month: August 2009

Food Pairing: Hummus and Falafel

Recently a friend asked me if I do food pairings. I didn't quite know how to respond – I taste a fair amount of booze and I eat a fair amount of food, but it surprised me how rarely I do both simultaneously. So my honest first response was, “Yeah ... I mean, sometimes. Why?”

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1 comments - Posted by Greg Versch at 4:32 PM - Categories: Beer | Wine

Ska to Get Even Craftier With Cans

Ska brewing wasn’t prepared for the sensation caused by their early spring release of Modus Hoperandi IPA in cans.  For about a month, it became impossible to find this beer as hop-heads not used to IPA’s in cans devoured the initial...

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0 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 2:27 PM - Categories: Beer

Green Flash Brewing Lights up the Chicago Market

Green Flash Brewing invading the Chicago market might be an understatement when you take into consideration just how many beers from this celebrated brewery are now on our shelves.  Seven beers from the Vista, California based Green Flash Brewing are now on hand at select locations, including...

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1 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 10:46 AM - Categories: Beer

Styles Change, And So Do I

Like anything else, styles in wine are constantly changing. But what does that mean for us tasters, and for our palates?

Last Tuesday this issue came up at a Binny's wine meeting. We were tasting through some exciting new releases, including...

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0 comments - Posted by Greg Versch at 1:47 PM - Categories: Wine

Great Divide Unveils a "Hoss" of a Beer

As the sea of Oktoberfest / Märzen beers steadily flood our shelves, it is certainly a good idea to be the dimorphic fish of the bunch.  Great Divide displays this dimorphism well in their new beer Hoss, a Märzen style lager with a twist...

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0 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 2:15 PM - Categories: Beer

Unreal Sticky from Seppeltsfield

Sitting in the office next to the Binny's Australian wine buyer (and fortified wine buyer) affords me some interesting opportunities, so it didn't seem unusual to me when an Australian-sounding man came into the Australian wine buyer's office. His name: Nathan Waks, the managing director of the Seppeltsfield winery. The wines he brought...

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0 comments - Posted by Greg Versch at 5:31 PM - Categories: Wine

Binny's South Loop: A Magnificent Suds Experience

Looking for an exotic beer that you can’t find on the shelves?  Look no further than Binny’s in the South Loop.  The sixteen constantly rotating craft beer taps makes Binny’s in the South Loop one of the premier places to try beers rarely seen on draft. ..

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0 comments - Posted by Kyle Fornek at 2:09 PM - Categories: Beer