No More Magic Hat

We're taking a bit of a break from our regularly scheduled program today. If you're at all tuned in to the craft beer world via Facebook or Twitter there's no doubt that you saw all of this mess between Magic Hat and West Sixth blow up yesterday. Now, if you've been reading this blog or following me on Twitter for any significant amount of time you've no doubt realized that I'm a huge fan of the guys at West Sixth and what they do. My girlfriend lives in Lexington so I spend a lot of time down there. They're a local beer as far as I'm concerned. I love hanging out at their taproom and drinking their beers. This is all a way of saying that when I heard about all of this lawsuit nonsense yesterday, it hit close to home, as it were. Now, I'm no lawyer, so I can't speak whatsoever to any of the copyright claims or any of that, but here are my thoughts nonetheless.

REVIEW: West Sixth Amber

Today's beer comes from a brewer that my Cincinnati readers may now recognize, Lexington, Kentucky's West Sixth. They have recently started to distribute their IPA in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Unfortunately, the amber that I'm looking at today, for now, is only available in Central KY. I'm sure we'll see it in this neck of the woods pretty soon though. So anyway, the amber joins the IPA in their canned lineup. It's kind of odd that on the can it's just referred to as Amber Ale While at the taproom it's Deliberation Amber. I think I prefer the latter. Also, big time thanks to my girlfriend's parents for the rad monogrammed pint glasses that I finally have the chance to use! Enough of my rambling. To the beer!