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From The Cellar: Short's Mystery Stout 2010

Short’s says:

Imperial Oatmeal Stout with cocoa and molasses. It possesses rare flavor combination’s which can overload even the most experienced beer connoisseur.

Short’s Mystery Stout Imperial Stout, 10.8% ABV

Sayeth the Guys:

(EDITORS NOTE: This beer was puchased in January of 2010 and first reviewed in April of 2010.  Two bottles [...]

Review: Short’s The Curl

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Short’s says:

Brewed with 40% more ingredients to bump any ordinary pilsner to an imperial level.  We hop the kettle four times, using a good amount of Amarillo hops to balance the malty sweetness from the pilsen malt and  lots of flaked maze. At 7.5% ABV and 50 Bittering Units, this [...]

A List Of Beer At The End Of The Year: Here’s What We Liked In 2011

All the cool kids are doing year-end lists, so we’re jumping on board this particular train as well. You may recall we recapped our Top 5 Beers after a year of being in existence, but we have a few notable brews floating around in our brains that are worth mentioning. True, we spent most of [...]

The GDB Pumpkin Beer Roundup 2k11

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KARL: We’ve been threatening to do this for a while now, and it started somewhere around the time we poured our first pint of Pumking for the year a few weeks back. Now that we have found a few different styles and offerings from this years crop, rather than spread it out over 2 weeks [...]

On Hallowed Ground: We Went To Shorts (Finally)

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KARL: It should come as no surprise that we like Shorts. Combine a minimalistic sensibility with an aptitude for amazing specialty brews and experimental fruit beers (paired with a little bit of demand from market limitation) and you’ve got a recipe for Shorts, and we like it. Despite being in Northern Michigan just a [...]

Review: Short’s Wizard

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Short’s says:

“Short’s first barley wine is a force to be reckoned with! From its batch number, to its identical boil time of 6hrs and 66mins, this deep dark amber ale holds some epic warming flavor. A monstrous malt bill creates a full bodied behemoth with high residual malty sweetness of caramel [...]

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