The millenium arrives -- and takes its hat off and stays awhile (I like another beer)

How does it compare to my favorite, the great Duchesse de Bourgogne? A little bitter for my neophyte taste, not as sweetly round, not as tinglingly sour or freshly toast-and-cola-like as la Duchesse -- beer lovers use a vocabulary all their own, heavy on nuts, toast, and caramel -- but still very good.

Samuel Smith's nut brown ale