The Adventures of Bren and Sven

Put a Little Ho in your Gaarden!

No that was not a typo, this post brings you our second beer review - first if you don't count the Budweiser berating on our beer review intro post: Hoegaarden's Witbier-Biere Blanche. This cloudy little citrusy cluster of crisp, clean, coriander creativity hails from the great country of Belgium and it brings with it the image of summer afternoons spent at beer gardens being served by buxom bar maids! So needless to say, we like it! But enough alliteration, lets get down to business and throw t...

Bren’s Beer-o-meter

Beer is good! Science is good! Beer and science is double good!! So this is my mission: to apply a sense of order and structure to the often highly subjective forms of beer rating. Now I know taste is subjective, and this is precisely why I am laying out my measures for the world to see. So when you notice I gave Bud Light a 5 and Newcastle Brown Ale a 20 you will be able to identify exactly why I gave such a rating. The rating scale is broken into 5 different categories which have a sca...

Bren and Sven’s Top five Best Jobs

As a kid we wanted to grow up to do something awesome, like blow stuff up or go really really fast. So now that we have some more experience within the working world we here at the Bren and Sven team would like to impart upon you our knowledge of what we view as the top 5 best jobs. 1. Hosting Top Gear- OK so if your not familiar with this show... Get familiar!!! This has to be the best automotive show on the planet. It's informative, interesting, and even someone that doesn't know the differ...

The Side Car

As the name implies, the Side Car is the ultimate motorcyclists' cocktail. This was once one of the classic cocktails that has sadly fallen out of favor. The story behind it is that a WWII American Army Motorcyclist entered a french bar in the winter and asked for something to warm him up. The normal answer to this would have been a snifter of brandy or cognac, but due to the fact that this was prior to dinner, and back then straight alcohol was something to be consumed after dinner, the bartend...

The Holiday Spirits

Tis the season For lack of a better reason, To take time off to think And try this new drink. If your goal this holiday is to get sauced, Then try a Gentleman Jack Frost (excuse the poor rhyme on that one). Ok, I promise I wont try to open a post with a rhyme for quite some time... Ok I’m done. So to the point, we here at the Bren and Sven laboratory have discovered a great drink for the winter holidays known only as the Gentlemen Jack Frost. Now as much as we would lo...