Posts Tagged: About Oaked Beer
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 - leave a 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 …
About Oaked Beer: Bam Noir, Jolly Pumpkin, Dexter, MI
Posted by on Sunday, November 11, 2007 in - 1 comment
Just a few days after saying that I could not find copies of Celebrator magazine - I find one at Jolly Pumpkin's store in Dexter, Michigan. I also found this Bam Noir labeled as Batch #246 even though the brewery does not list that one as a Bam Noir batch. No never mind. Numbers can have that …
About Oaked Beer: Odyssey, Allagash, Maine, USA
Posted by on Sunday, November 4, 2007 in - leave a comment
This is a special release by Allagash from October 2006, weighing in at a hefty 10.3%. It pours a deep rich mahogany under thick lacing cream froth. Lots of big dark aromas coming out of the glass - sort of like a brown sugared baseball glove that was on fire but put out with a good soaking of …
About Oaked Beer: Blasphemy, Weyerbacher, PA, USA
Posted by on Thursday, September 27, 2007 in - 2 comments
I think I should be pouring this one into a shot glass - an oaked version of the brewer's Quad which was happily reviewed in January 2006. 11.8%. Good Lord. The brewery notes that the aging was in bourbon barrel and was not extended to ensure much of the original ale's complexity was not lost …
The Session: The Brew Zoo
Posted by on Friday, September 7, 2007 in - 2 comments
It is the first Friday of the month and that means it is the day of The Session. Rick Lyke named it this time and chose "The Brew Zoo" demanding we all drink beers with animals on the labels. I forgot this earlier in the week when I popped a Struis with an ostrich on the front. That would have … read more »
About Oaked Beer: Prophacy, Weyerbacher, Easton, PA, USA
Posted by on Sunday, August 19, 2007 in - leave a comment
One of a number of siblings to the previously reviewed Insanity, the brewer tells us that Prophecy is their tripel, Merry Monk's Ale, aged in bourbon barrel. I liked Merry Monk's ale is Weyerbacher that I tried in a group in early 2006 along with a bunch of their other brews - but I liked their …
