Unfortunately Wolaver’s website is under construction but I did a little digging to get you guys some back story about this brew…. The selling point of Wolaver’s Alta Garcia Coffee Porter is that they use organic coffee from the Costa Rican farming village of Alta Gracia. The organic coffee is grown by the farmers, and they are paid fair prices for their product. Alta Garcia is also an educational farm where locals can learn organic coffee farming techniques themselves and  [ Read More ]

A witbier found at the Belgium booth during the 2011 Epcot Food and Wine Festival, Hoegaarden Original Belgian Wheat Beer gets its name from the village of Hoegaarden in Belgium. The witbier style originated from this village; however, this beer was first brewed in 1965 by Pierre Celis, who tried to bring back the witbier after all the breweries in the village closed. After a fire destroyed the Hoegaarden brewery, Interbrew (later InBev after a merger with AmBev) helped rebuild the  [ Read More ]

Stopped by one of my favorite BBQ places in NYC and wanted something light and refreshing to wash down the grub.   Had heard of Southampton Publick House since they’re out of Long Island so I decided to give it a try.  From their website… Southampton Double White is a truly special brew and a Southampton original. It’s a stronger version of the classic Belgian white ale style. White Ales (or Witbiers) are called white because their light color and cloudy  [ Read More ]

Alright, I get it. It’s the Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, not the Food and Beer Festival. However, there are over 100 of what Disney refers to as “Wine/Beverage” Seminars at the 2011 festival. Out of these 100+ sessions throughout the entire length of the festival, a grand total of one  focuses on beer. I hope you beer lovers are available October 4, 2011 at noon, because your one chance to participate in a beer seminar is at that date and time. Samuel  [ Read More ]

Over at the Hops and Barley booth, the home of Samuel Adams for the 2011 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, one of the eight Samuel Adams varieties will be Cream Stout. Cream Stout is a very dark brown, almost black beer with a milk chocolate colored head; hold it up to the light and you can see some lighter brown tones around the edges. This stout has a roasted scent with a slight bit of chocolate mixed in. The  [ Read More ]

In our initial article on all the 2011 Epcot Food and Wine Festival beers we accidentally overlooked this one. Oops! Good thing we noticed, because Leffe may be the jewel of the Belgium booth. Leffe, according to the brewery website, was originally brewed by the monks of the Leffe Abbey. The abbey was flooded in 1460 and suffered numerous other disasters in the years to follow. Eventually, the abbey closed until the early 1900s and brewing of Leffe resumed in  [ Read More ]

Anyone care to guess what Germany’s number one draught beer is?  Let’s see, I heard Beck’s…wrong.  No, Lowenbrau’s not it either.  Heineken is Dutch, so that’s wrong.  Okay, okay stop yelling at the computer, I’ll tell you…it’s Bitburger! So you probably guessed that by the title of this post, but have you ever had one?  Bitburger is a traditional German pilsner whose brewery is located in the town of Bitburg.  Initially opened in 1817, the Bitburger brewery brewed ales due  [ Read More ]

I discovered this beer with my fellow co-host and brother of The Lost Boy’s List Podcast, Craig, at the Great American Beer festival in Boston this past June.  After sampling 50-100 beers we kept going back to this terrific brew.  In an intoxicated state post festival, we both agreed this was the clear winner taking home “Best in Show”. Over the next month or so I went crazy searching for the beer at my local package stores without any success.   [ Read More ]

Avaliable from August to October, Samuel Adams Octoberfest is a seasonal beer for the Fall, even though most of us wouldn’t quite consider it to be Fall yet. To fully understand this beer, let’s first discuss Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest is the biggest festival in the world; it takes place annually in Munich, Germany and lasts somewhere between 16 and 18 days. Germany has had Oktoberfest since 1810, and like Mardi Gras, other cities have adopted the festivities and hold their own  [ Read More ]