Exploring the wonderful world of craft beer with my trusty taste-tester dog Cisco & his faithful butler Arfred

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3 Nations Brewing – Salty Pirate

Today Arfred is serving 3 Nations – Salty Pirate, a 4.7% strawberry lemonade sherbet gose. Love the can art, I have no idea why it reminded me of that awful 90’s Geena Davis pirate movie Cutthroat Island. Maybe she was…

Founders KBS Espresso

Today Arfred is serving Founders – KBS Espresso, a 12% bourbon barrel-aged stout brewed with chocolate and coffee. I don’t think y’all need me to tell you a KBS was good, not exactly breaking news. Aged on espresso beans after…

Fair State Brewing & Pulpit Rock Brewing – Main Boss

Today Arfred is serving Fair State Brewing & Pulpit Rock Brewing collab – Main Boss, a 12% imperial stout brewed with coconut, molasses and house-made orgeat syrup. This beer was fantastic, and not just because it tasted great. With each…

Martin House Brewery – Lemon Icebox Pie

Today Arfred is serving Martin House – Lemon Icebox Pie, a 5.4% lemon sour brewed with graham crackers and lactose. Never had a slice of lemon icebox, but now I’m definitely craving one. Kind of an underrated member of the…

Untitled Art & Hop Culture – Hurricane Hard Seltzer

Today Arfred is serving Untitled & Hop Culture collab – Hurricane Hard Seltzer, a 9% seltzer brewed with oranges, key limes, passionfruit, pineapples and finished off with rum and cherry juice. Modeled after the famous New Orleans cocktail, this one…

Little Toad Creek – Pendejo Porter

Today Arfred is serving Little Toad Creek – Pendejo Porter, a 6.7% porter. Another nice local selection from my faraway neighbor state of New Mexico. I love the name of this beer, but I don’t know what they have against…

Short Throw Brewing – Resting My Greatness

Today Arfred is serving Short Throw – Resting My Greatness, a 11.8% stout with Rostovos coffee, Vermont maple syrup and vanilla. I’ve been replaying the Uncharted video games lately, so I totally thought of the Sir Francis Drake quote Sic…

Tupps Brewery – Full Grown Man-Child

Today Arfred is serving Tupps – Full Grown Man-Child, a 8.3% stout brewed with coffee and chocolate. If liking chocolate in your beer makes you an official man-child, well you can hand me my pink polka dot pacifier anytime. Who…

Zilker Brewing – Coffee Milk Stout

Today Arfred is serving Zilker – Coffee Milk Stout, a 5.9% creamy stout brewed with coffee beans from local Austin TX roasters. Full disclosure, I drank this in 2020. I think this can is nearly a year old – I…