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Favorite beer styles:
Porters, Stouts, ESBs, Kolsch, Belgian Strong ales, IPAs and American ambers mostly but I'll try any beer once. Recently getting into the Imperial porters and stouts. Yes - I finally love IPAs!
Favorite Craft breweries:
Breckenridge Brewery, Avery Brewing Company, Dogfish Head, Left Hand Brewing, Oskar Blues, New Belgium, Odells Brewing, Boston Beer Co, Bell's Brewing. Heck, every small brewery makes something good.
Who am I?:
I'm another 49 year old beer geek who is fermentedly challenged. I'm a long time corporate IT cubicle slave who lives for his ale after a hard day on the keyboard. Born in Michigan but living now in Greeley Colorado for the last 25 years. Love to taste as many craft beers as I can get my hands on. Hope to see some of you at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver this year. I first homebrewed back in the late 90's but got lazy and just started buying all those great craft beers. Looking to get back into home brewing again soon. @ChipperDave on twitter.
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http://www.fermentedlychallenged.com/
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Hidden Brewery in Colorado getting attention

I posted an article on the examiner.com/denver site today that spotlights a fairly new start-up brewery in Colorado called the Crabtree Brewing Company. Their beers are only sold in Colorado currently but they are planning to expand to other states in the not so distant future. Check out this hidden gem at the… Continue

Posted on July 6th, 2008 at 11:08am — No Comments (Add)

Sam Adams Beer Dinner 5-15-2008 Recap

Hope all of you enjoyed American Craft Beer Week as I did. I had the golden opportunity to attend the Samuel Adams Beer Dinner at the Rioja restaurant in downtown Denver on Thursday night. Best of all - it was FREE! I entered in a contest sponsored by Samuel Adams to their newsletter subscribers and was shocked when they told me I had won. I grabbed two friends (and 1 extra ticket) and headed down to Denver for a delicious 3-course meal. Got to meet brewer Bob Cannon from Boston Beer. Pictures,… Continue

Posted on May 20th, 2008 at 9:06am — No Comments (Add)

I can finally say I love IPAs!

Thanks to the encouragement of many of you here on Aleuminati, I've been trying many IPAs over the last month or so and I can now say with confidence that I LOVE IPAs! I had my first Dogfish Head 90-minute Imperial IPA tonight and I just loved it! I wrote up a raving review of it tonight on my main blog. Looking forward to tasting more like this in the future.

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Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 9:46pm — 5 Comments (Add)

Personal Tour of Rock Bottom Brewery Loveland

Just had a great visit to one of the newer breweries in Northern Colorado. This one was at the recently opened Rock Bottom Brewery and restaurant in the Centerra shopping complex in Loveland, Colorado. I personally talked with their Brewmaster and got to sample 11 different beers! For a quick summary and review see the blog entry.

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Posted on April 9th, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment (Add)

Ode to Chimay Blue

I had the special treat to sample a bottle of Chimay (Blue) Grande Reserve this weekend. This is a fine example of a Trappist Belgian Strong Dark Ale. If you've never had the chance to try one of these beers you owe it to yourself to buy one. Read more of my review on my blog.

Posted on April 6th, 2008 at 9:22am — 4 Comments (Add)

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At 5:07am on June 21st, 2008, Porterbrewer said…
Thanks for the welcome. I do enjoy other beer than the dark stuff. But Porter just goes down so nicely anytime of the year. But i like a good Real Ale in the summertime and I have a double IPA on dry hopping now, and a light Berliner Weisse in primary.
At 7:29am on June 19th, 2008, BrewDudes said…
Thanks for the welcome Chipper Dave.
At 1:04am on June 17th, 2008, Midwest Microbrews said…
Chipper Dave, thanks for the info on the Colorado breweries! We truly appreciate your help. Cheers!
Mcihael and the crew from MidwestMicroBrews and RockyMountainMicroBrews
At 5:38pm on May 28th, 2008, The Beer Philosopher said…
Very cool, Chipper Dave ... thanks!
At 3:42pm on May 28th, 2008, JoMoRisin said…
No, the name is just an acronym, and a play on my real name.
I WILL have to give a try to any nectar sharing my name, though ;-))
At 11:13am on May 25th, 2008, Eli the Mad Beer Man said…
Sounds like ya dodged a bullet... literally. Awesome. and Fran and I didn't get to Beaver Creek. We were just too burned out (posted about why this morning on my blog).
At 11:33am on May 23rd, 2008, Eli the Mad Beer Man said…
Glad to see that you're OK (after the big tornado), amigo!
At 7:46am on May 22nd, 2008, Virgil G said…
The intention of that comment was a little joke, you'll note that half my pictures have my fridge as the backdrop. Others have a white wall. It wasn't until the last two pics (at home) that I even attempted a background.

Hope you aren't mad, I was trying to pick on myself more than you.
At 4:38pm on May 20th, 2008, BAYAREA_IPADRINKER said…
thanks for the comment on the filet
At 10:26am on May 16th, 2008, Chipper Dave said…
Boston Beer company really knows how to throw a beer dinner. I attended their Denver Beer Dinner last night as part of the American Craft Beer Week festivities. I will be writing up a complete summary of the event on my blog as soon as I get off work tonight. All I can say is - wow that was some awesome food and some tasty beers! More later...

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American Craft Beer Fest (via Twitter)

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MidwestMicroBrews launches sister-site, RockyMountainMicroBrews!

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