Hi Folks. Welcome to our inaptly named blog, the Perfect Batch.

Is there really such a thing as a perfect batch, a perfect beer? No, probably not. There's a mood and setting for everything. What tastes great in the dead of winter will lose some luster come summertime. Time and place means everything when it comes to really, really enjoying a great beer.

But I digress... back to the welcome.

This is a place to talk beer, in all its sudsy glory. No snobbery, no high-minded ramblings about hard to figure out criteria -- none of that. Sure, we'll tell you what we like and why we like it, but it's open season for disagreement. This is an open market of ideas about what makes beer the greatest, most interesting of all earth's liquids.

We'll post some reviews and pics, talk about our favorite watering holes, hopefully travel a bit, and dabble into questions about altering America's crazy drinking culture (as college students, we have an interesting perspective).

Most importantly, we'll drink a hearty amount of beer and share the results of our noble experimentation.

Let the games begin.