Sand Creek Brewing Company

This bottle of Lilja's Sasquatch Stout has been in the basement beer fridge for over a year now. There's no date on this bottle but seeing as how this beer is a Stout, I think it'll be just fine. There's actually quite a lot of stuff on this label, but not much of it is of any use... There's a line about the "Cheddar Curtain" and "Your Darkest Side" but you won't find the alcohol content of this beer or the date on which it was bottled. It may not be useful, but it's still a decent label even if I don't know who or what Lilja is...

Sand Creek and the Lilja line of beers don't make their way this far southwest so I had to bring this bottle back from Illinois myself. I knew virtually nothing about this beer when I picked it up this summer, I was just on the look out for beers that weren't distributed back home. I picked up a number of Lilja's bottles and promptly forgot all about them... This Hop Nest Monster IPA has been sitting in the basement for a couple months now so I figured I'd better hurry up and drink it because it certainly isn't getting any younger... It's for the best really, as the summer weather turns to fall and I bring the sweaters out of storage, hoppy IPAs won't be my first choice of beer.

Get it? Heifer Weizen... that's clever. This bottle of Lilja's Heifer Weizen was found on a recent vacation across state lines where Wisconsin beers are more readily available. I'd never seen the Lilja's beers from Sand Creek Brewing before so I snatched up as many as I could. Among them was a lone bottle of Hefeweizen that says "Wisconsin Farmhouse Wheat Beer" printed on the side. The label looks more or less homemade, with a badly photoshopped picture of cows in a field with a thought bubble asking "Where's da beer?" Kitschy? Sure, but professional beers aren't always the best tasting so I was undeterred. What really sold me on this beer was the tagline at the very bottom of the label, "brewed behind the Cheddar Curtain." Ha!