Posts Tagged: Beer Reviews
The Week Of Eight Flavoured Beers
Posted by on Saturday, February 24, 2007 in - leave a comment
This week may not last that long. These beers have sort of collected on the stash shelf over time. Usually, I do not go out of my way to find a beer that has been flavoured. The worst thing, in fact, I have been asked in a pub by a bar tender after I said that I would have a beer was "what flavour …
Vermont: Harvest Ale, Long Trail Brewing, Bridgewater Corners
Posted by on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 in - leave a comment
I have reviewed one or two Long Trail beers here before, and the company should hire me I love them so much. • This bottle of Harvest Ale has sat in the beer stash here for a little bit, waiting for the right moment. My wife is out and about this evening, so I didn't have to share, making this a …
Quick Note: Suffolk Strong. Greeene King, England
Posted by on Thursday, February 15, 2007 in - 1 comment
This has been kicking around the stash since it was on the LCBO's seasonal release for, I think, winter. Thick frothy lace-leaving tan head over deep chestnut ale. In the snoot, a bit of a tang like a Belgian dubbel - a comparison not dispelled in the mouth....minus the burlap. Very nice. I am …
Quick Note: Monkman's Slaughter, Cropton Brewery, England
Posted by on Wednesday, February 7, 2007 in - 2 comments
From the Cropton Brewery - whose website has an e-commerce basket system offering free delivery throughout the UK. It would be interesting to know what their web sales are like as I am just hittig the part in Beer School where the Brooklyn Brewery guys make a wrong turn on to a ramp heading to the …
Two Organic Beers From California
Posted by on Friday, February 2, 2007 in - 2 comments
The two in question are Wild Hop Lager from Green Valley Brewing and Butte Creek IPA. Two pretty good brews which, after I compared them, caused me to discover one BIG SURPRISE. • First, though, the question is this - do I need organic beer in my life? Well, I know this: I need good beer in my …
Germany: The Week Of Nine German Beers
Posted by on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 in - 19 comments
What an awful photo. The colours are all over the place, the bottles are not straight and I am not even sure that it is in focus. This is sort of how I feel about my understanding of German and German-style beers. I am not a fan and I base that primarily on ignorance. Fortunately I have the Good …
The Week Of O'Hanlon's
Posted by on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 in - leave a comment
A couple of weeks ago, the hard working new editor of The Bar Towel, Greg Clow, announced that Roland and Russell, an eastern European wine, spirit and truffle distributor in Ontario, was now offering the O'Hanlon range of beers from Devon, England including the famous Thomas Hardy's Ale which I …
Quick Note: Scottish Ale Draught, Belhaven, Scotland
Posted by on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 in - 12 comments
I have to admit, I am very entertained by 'draught' cans. The pop, the schnick, the whoosh. Guinness, for example, has done this for a few years, which adds a nice head to the beer, Murphy's Irish Stout and Boddington's Pub Ale too. I don't know exactly what that little ball does, but it does pour …
Barley Wine: Doggie Claws 2006, Hair of the Dog, Oregon
Posted by on Friday, January 19, 2007 in - 1 comment
From last month's troublesome shipment. • Deep cherry red amber ale under the slimmest of foam and white rim. Thick and still ale, almost syrup. Masses of resinous green and bitter tea, candy caned hops with a line of chili hot heat over rich candied fruit malt - peach, cherry, pear - with …
Belgium: Scotch, Brasserie de Silly, Silly
Posted by on Sunday, January 14, 2007 in - leave a comment
In his mid-70s first edition of The World Guide to Beer, Michael Jackson wrote: • “The fact that the Scots do not celebrate Christmas (preferring to save their serious drinking for New Year's Eve¹) might surprise Belgians. In Belgium, "Scotch" is not a whisky, but a very dark and creamy beer of …
