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Mucho tiempo paso desde la ultima vez que cocine mi ultima lager y me había quedado con ganas de repetir una pilsner (mi primer y único intento había resultado más que decente, pero al embotellarla se perdió un poco de su “pureza” debido a la … [...]
Brewery: Old Dominion Brewing Co., Dover, DEStyle: Baltic PorterABV: 6.8%Date Poured: December 2009I had a version of this beer about six years ago and although it was good, I haven’t had it since. This is mostly because I could not easily get Dominio… [...]
Roll out the booze and the buffet, ladies and gents charge your party poppers, the new year is nearly with us.This year has been a year of great change for me, probably the biggest transition period in my life thus far. I thought I would summarise it, … [...]
The rumors of our demise are… well quite funny actually. Sickpuppy and I have been hella busy with our side projects and then we decided to go on vacation. Well, not together… I’m on the snowy beaches of Lake Erie chasing snow bunnies… [...]
Brewery: Stone Brewing, Jolly Pumpkin, Nøgne ØStyle: Winter WarmerABV: 9.0%Date Poured: December 2009Here’s a unique brew. What do you get when Stone, Nøgne Ø and Jolly Pumpkin get together to brew a holiday ale? You get a 9.0% ABV behemoth brewed … [...]
…but if you turn your back it will always boil over!! I brewed my American IPA yesterday out in the fridgid cold, and stepped inside to warm up a bit and had a boil over. It was so cold that the bolied over wort froze as soon as it hit the ground. … [...]
Arctic Alchemy “Arctic Alchemy, discoveries of the Red Hand ……”, a discussion on the Homebrewers Association forum kicked off by Chris Bowen talking about a documentary project he’s embarked on. In July 2010, I am departing from Bethlehem with two friends on a 3 week journey about 2000 miles north to the Canadian Arctic. The [...] [...]
E’ un sacco che non scrivo nulla sul mio blog, è vero, ma in questi giorni sono finalmente arrivate le birre natalizie e mi è tornato il guizzo.Avete mai sentito parlare di birre natalizie? No, non parlo non della Moretti con il baffone travestito da… [...]
Homebrew competitions invite organizers and judges to strike a delicate balancing act: How to honor, on the one hand, the inherently fun and casual nature of the homebrewing community, while at the same time being serious and diligent enough to give en… [...]
Brewery: Bell’s BreweryStyle: Belgian WitbierABV: 5.0%Date Poured: December 2009A nasty little illness put my beer drinking on hiatus over the holidays. But the beer’s been bought and I’m no quitter! That beer’s not going to drink itself so I’m finish… [...]
Naturally flavorful and integrated, this feathery espresso stout harmoniously balances seemingly contradictory attributes, uncompromisingly dry roasted bitterness and the effervescence of a chilled coffee soda. The result is a coffee beer that is actua… [...]
The Washington Beer Commission is presenting a brand spankin new beer festival, “Belgianfest,” showcasing a wide variety of Belgian style beers on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010, at Georgetown Studios’ Engine Room, located in South Seattle.There will be … [...]
Over the holidays I had the distinct pleasure of getting my hands on Boulevard Brewing’s Saison-Brett from their Smokestack Series. This beer was rated pretty high on BA and RB, so I didn’t mind dropping the cash on it. It was the holidays, and I had been working my way through many imperials, stouts, and [...] [...]
Hopped up to an almost IPA degree, this winter-skewed American amber plows the palate with a comforting malty warmth and an unmistakably thorny hop gnash. A dry and cooling herbal freshness on the backend balances out the tangible hoppage and tethers t… [...]
This is a roll up your sleeves and get involved kind of lager, wonderfully complex and extremely lively. Following a sweet and musty tickle of the nose, an incendiary device of bitter grassy herbaceousness and concentrated citrus fruit engulf the pala… [...]
This is one seriously hopped and complex American winter seasonal, the power of biting and bitter hops tears through its pounding west coast heart like a cluster of supersonic rockets. This is beer as hostile takeover – lean, confident and unashamedly… [...]
Possessing a lot of what can only be described as ‘old fashioned’ charm, this Belgian Xmas release softly warms with an abundance of bitter herbal and forgotten European garden fruit flavors. Pair this with almost any rich game meats, accompanying chu… [...]
This small batch production tastes like an intriguing amalgam of a Strong Belgian Ale and a Baltic Porter, an odd couple pairing that in this scenario is a happy one and immediately serves to set this Christmas offering apart. The aroma of charred ban… [...]
Lying beneath the somewhat dusty and subdued nose of this festive Belgian emigrant is a fairly conservative dark Belgian ale. Like many of its well produced ilk it belies its not insignificant alcohol content with a caressing, but not cloying sweetnes… [...]
As the Great Alaska Beer and Barley Wine Festival creeps ever closer, some momentum is being made toward morphing the event itself and periphery events into a more encompassing Alaska Beer Week, or something similarly named. I wrote about this in las… [...]
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