Posts Tagged: About Oaked Beer
Scotland: Canada Day 2011, Innis & Gunn, Edinburgh
Posted by on Monday, June 27, 2011 in - 8 comments
The good folks at the Ontario's importers of Innis & Gunn's beers forwarded this sample a few weeks back and, as Canada Day is this coming Friday, I thought I better give it a go before the big day. And as I let one of their beers sit too long and another got taken out by a freezing delivery van I …
Scotland: Paradox Islay #004, BrewDog, Aberdeenshire
Posted by on Saturday, September 25, 2010 in - 2 comments
What a mess. I hadn't realized the label was made of hard card stock stuck on with two-sided sticky tape. I might take it down to the lab and get James' near teen DNA off of it. Bottle 131 of 200. By opening it, I probably just threw away the 100 bucks I could get from some guy in Kansas on eBay …
Scotland: Oak Aged 2006, Innis & Gunn, Edinburgh
Posted by on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 in - 7 comments
I have had this in the stash for a while but there is plenty of BAer respect so I should be pleased with myself for being so full of self control. The key is, of course, loading the stash with so much that you forget what you have. And layers of heavy boxes. Place them in the way and, well, who …
Michigan: Weizen Bam, Jolly Pumkin, Dexter
Posted by on Friday, December 25, 2009 in - 1 comment
It's been all too much, really. The photo contest, plus the shopping, then the work lunches and drinks and then shopping and the seminars and concerts and church and... now it's Christmas night. Present opened, lamb consumed, half the kids in bed and the rest headed that way. What to have to cut …
Scotland: Paradox Smokehead, BrewDog, Aberdeenshire
Posted by on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in - 2 comments
OK, the cold is still there but something has to shake it. I can't wait to tomorrow either as that is the day of The Session and this time that means the day of lager love. Given that it is love of macro crap mass produced lager, while it should make for a good read, it is not something I am …
About Oaked Beer: Perseguidor 2006, Jolly Pumpkin, Michigan
Posted by on Saturday, October 4, 2008 in - 1 comment
This beer crosses a lot of categories: oaked, aged, sour and from a state that looks like a mitten. I picked this 2006 edition of Perseguidor from Ron when I spent an hour with him a year ago, probably my beery highlight of 2007 now that I think of it. • BAer's lavish love - though they lament …
Belgium: Pannepot GR '05, De Struise / Deca, W' Vleteren
Posted by on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 in - 1 comment
I must have been very good today as this is the bottle I decided to open. I mowed the half the lawn. And I held the fort at my desk with a certain style. I'll likely even keep the empty as it even has the mark of importers Roland + Russell, the kind folks who forwarded this sample. • But, you …
Single Cask Brews: Manufacturing Scarcity Or Pure Genius?
Posted by on Monday, May 5, 2008 in - 11 comments
I just about flipped out when I saw this post over at 2 Beer Guys (from the April 16, 2008 issue of The Coloradoan) about the Odell Brewing Co. (with whom I am not familiar but which I am sure is nice and run by fine folk, and all) doing a limited run of a series of single cask beers - each brew …
About Oaked Beer: Angel's Share, Lost Abbey, San Marcos, CA
Posted by on Saturday, April 26, 2008 in - leave a comment
The neatly manicured hand is Josh Rubin's. After the very successful Southern Tier dinner on Friday night, he snabbed Phin DeMink, Southern Tier's brewer Paul Cain (aka "Paul whose business card I misplaced") and me taking us on a taxi ride to BeerBistro! where we popped tops until we closed the …
Sour Beer Studies: Madrugada Obscura, Jolly Pumpkin, MI
Posted by on Saturday, November 17, 2007 in - 1 comment
A Michigan beer got the big game at the Big House...and what a big beer it is - a tangy sour stout weighing in at 8.1%. This is what I expect when I get an old school porter and is not unlike a badly handled Burton Bridge porter I had once in 2001. I have a 2006 and 2007 Burton Bridge in the stash …
