Posts Tagged: Aged Beer
Aged Beer: Smashed Pumpkin Ale, Shipyard, Portland
Posted by on Friday, October 15, 2010 in - leave a comment
Because I believe calling anything "world class" is quite unfortunate, I could not contribute productively to Stan's recent question "Can a Pumpkin Beer be World Class?" Usually "world class" - like "premium" - ends up meaning whether people who know not all that much can brag about something to …
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 …
Massachusetts: Glacier Harvest '08, Harpoon, Boston
Posted by on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 in - 3 comments
Enough of the playing seer! Enough of the badly considered science!! Enough all ready!!! This is a blog about beer, isn't it. Well, I got out of the black shoes, jacket and tie at 9:38 pm so beer it is. • I have had a few of the Harpoon 100 Barrel series offerings before and generally liked …
England: Entire Stout, Hopback Brewery, Wiltshire
Posted by on Sunday, March 15, 2009 in - 2 comments
I have had this beer in the stash for a while - at least before it won a CAMRA prize - and privately fretted over it. I was sure I had left it too long for its 4.5%, that when I poured it would be nothing but fouled water and black cottage cheese. How wrong I was. As rich and stiff a foaming head …
Porter 2006, Burton Bridge Brewery, Burton-Upon-Trent
Posted by on Thursday, January 8, 2009 in - 3 comments
Time. For the most part beer's enemy is time, specially for a beer with only 4.5%. But in 2000, as I've mentioned a few times, I clearly remember having a Burton Bridge Porter that was overwhelmingly bitter and pleasantly foul due no doubt to its utter mishandling and disregard. Some time ago I …
Barley Wine: Olde Deuteronomy 2003, Alley Kat, Alberta
Posted by on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 in - 2 comments
Election night here in Canada. So far most of the fun has been watching people get around the blackout law that bars transmission of election results until polls close across the whole country by posting from the UK or posting as rumours. The law is pre-Internet. It's actually pretty much pre-TV …
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 …
Aged Beer: The Rules I Follow To Get The Cellar Filled
Posted by on Monday, September 29, 2008 in - 4 comments
Stonch has a very good post today about how he finally came to love Rochfort 10 - he gave it a couple of years in the cellar. Result? • Gone is the excessive carbonation and the oppressive aroma of fiery alcohol. Instead, the beer's smoother and more enjoyable. In fact, it's positively easy …
