Beer: Java Stout

Bottled By: Bell’s Brewery

APV: 7.5%

What Makes It Geek?: Coffee and Beer – Two great tastes that go great together.

Goes Great With: Donuts and Chips – AT THE SAME TIME!!

When To Drink: When to drink? … When NOT to drink is more like it!

Beer: Celtic Gold Ale

Bottled By: Dunedin Brewery (Dunedin, FL)

APV: 5.2%

What Makes It Geek?: From the bottle: “A smooth, Kolsh style ale brewed to soothe the longshanks while he awaits the Scottish warriors’ return to freedom.”

Goes Great With: While your 12th level fighter is traipsing around Greyhawk and pizza.

When to Drink: When you have plenty of time to wait for that friggin’ head to go down. Seriously, I played 2 rounds of C&C3 in the time it took to pour the whole bottle… I do suck at C&C, however, so it was only like 15 minutes.

Beer: Rogue Chocolate Stout

Bottled By: Rogue Ales (Newport, Oregon)

APV: UK

What Makes It Geek?: There is a girl on the bottle, it’s made with imported chocolate, and it is bottled by a company named Rogue.

Goes Great With: Watching Johnny Depp work his magic in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and Brach’s Double Dipper’ Chocolate Peanuts.

When to Drink: While your kicking Magneto’s ass and stealing mutant powers.

Since Widge and the crazies over at Need Coffee have wrapped up their month of caffeine appreciation (great work guys); I figured that I should ride their coattails and declare April “Geek Beer Month”. Each day this month we will feature a “geek” beer (or at least a beer we will try to pass off as geek). Really it is just an excuse to drink more beer.

To kick off April, in the spirit of All Fools Day we have a very special lager…

Beer: Monty Python’s Holy Grail

Bottled By: Black Sheep Brewery (North Yorkshire, England)

APV: 4.7%

What Makes It Geek?: Umm… It is Monty Freaking Python! What else do you need? Hello?

Goes Great With: Raiding French forts, slaying rabbits, gardening shrubberies, and pretzels.

When to Drink: While watching fine, fine British comedy.