Posts Tagged: Barley and Wheat Wine
New Hampshire: Barleywine Style Ale, Smuttynose, Portsmouth
Posted by on Thursday, April 14, 2011 in - 3 comments
I had no idea. I was certain I had posted a review of this family favorite but apparently not. It's the 2011 bottling so it's early days but this is one of my favorite subdued takes on barleywine... or barley wine.... or barleywine style ale. • Five ninety-nine for 22 oz. Strong but smooth. Big …
Session 45: What? Wheat Beer?? Session Time Again???
Posted by on Friday, November 5, 2010 in - 4 comments
Why didn't anyone tell me? What the hell is this about? The first Friday of the month? Are you kidding me? Already? What the hell is this about? • [More later... maybe... what the hell do I have in the stash... friggin' first Friday... whose stupid idea is this anyway... and, just to top it off …
New York: Young Barley Wine Takes On Rotten Cold
Posted by on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 in - 1 comment
A rotten cold has kept me from a snarky yet clever retort to the spree of posts in the UK beerblogoverse about styles. It's quite remarkable to read all the comments - even my telling, Jack Hughesian... nay, incisive contributions. Yet I have no energy and no appetite for such things jsust hours …
Maine: Sea Smoke, Manly Men Beer Club, Bah Ha-Bah
Posted by on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 in - leave a comment
A smoked barley wine. It pours deep orange chestnut under a light pale cream froth and rim. At first, it tastes like something I would have made as a fairly unreliable home brewer getting rid of ends of specialty malts. Yet it's not unattractive. In fact, as sips are sipped it gets a little more …
When Does Beer "Tasting" Simply Go Too Far?
Posted by on Sunday, March 21, 2010 in - 6 comments
Jay Brooks has written a thoughtful post about his impressions after a barley wine tasting session that takes extreme beer in another dimension altogether: • It’s a simple, if punishing format, where a new beer is opened roughly every five minutes over a period of several hours... Last year …
Barley Wine: Treblehook, Redhook Ale Brewery
Posted by on Sunday, October 18, 2009 in - 1 comment
The label lists both the Washington and New Hampshire Redhook breweries but I received this last week in the mail from Craft Brands Alliance of Portland Oregon. Bet it's a west coast brew. You know, another brewery told me again last week that it cost too much to get samples through the Maple …
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 …
Vermont: Ridge Runner, Rock Art Brewery, Morrisville
Posted by on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 in - 6 comments
Barley Wine: Hog Heaven, Avery Brewing, Colorado
Posted by on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 in - 3 comments
By the way, do you like my cinder block studio look for these mid-winter pictures? I realized I had a perfect tiny beer studio on a shelf right next to a light bulb that gives the sharpest photos. In the time of root vegetables for every meal and a drive to and from work in the dark, these things …
Session 12: Old Guardian, Stone, Escondido, California
Posted by on Friday, February 1, 2008 in - 1 comment
Stone? All hop monster brew. Barley wine? Malt bomb. How can this be? Ying can't be Yang any more than...than...the Red Sox can make peace with Yankees. It's like the eternally sworn mortal enemies Casey and Finnegan making nice nice!!! The beer in question? Stone Old Guardian Spring Release 2007 …
