Posts Tagged: Beer Reviews
Still On Beer Pricing - What Is Your Best Value Beer?
Posted by on Sunday, November 11, 2007 in - 6 comments
I am still on the road hoping to make one more beer stop at Grand River to cash in some growlers...and spend that cash on more great value beer. Cashing in growlers seems like free beer but really it is only realizing a past investment in beer futures. Beervestment. • You see, you can't get away …
Paul Has Too Much Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 in - 5 comments
A terrible problem to have. • Too much beer. Can you have too much beer? • As I’m writing this I hear a resounding NO!!! But it's sort of a predicament that I’m in. When we closed our beer shop at the end of 2005 we had some stock left over. It wasn't much in terms of weekly turn over, but it …
Quick Note: Ommegeddon, Ommegang, Cooperstown, NY
Posted by on Saturday, November 3, 2007 in - leave a comment
A bottle from batch #1 dated June 2007. Light straw ale under a fine white frothy head. On the nose there is plenty to remind me of Goliath triple, one of my favorite beers - candy floss with nutmeg. In the mouth, this beer is drier without so much of the pear juiciness (actually more faintly of …
St Edmund Ale, Greene King, Bury St. Edmunds, England
Posted by on Sunday, October 28, 2007 in - 4 comments
Once upon a time there was a rather nice strong pale ale called St Edmund. It was a bottled beer brewed by Greene King to 5.5% abv. Admittedly it was a pasteurised beer rather than a real ale, but all the same it was a decent drop of stuff. Unfortunately, it's not been brewed for some years now. A …
What To Drink For Game 3? Have Another Jolly Pumpkin!
Posted by on Saturday, October 27, 2007 in - 1 comment
I have no idea how I picked up three Jolly Pumpkins for the stash and seemingly forgot about it. After last month's Bam and last night's Oro, both unflugabaligabally good, this one is the brewer's take on a Belgian white, Calabaza Blanca. Tonight, for game three of the World Series, what better …
Quick Note: Coup De Grisou, Brasseurs RJ, Quebec, Canada
Posted by on Saturday, October 20, 2007 in - 1 comment
This was a real surprise. A bottle quietly sitting in the stash as those around it slipped away, often left unnoted from banality. Clouded light amber ale under a fine white swirled head. A simple beer with a focus on malt...ok, and the yeast, too...but it's buckwheat malt. The malt has a strong …
Tripels: Black Tulip, New Holland, Michigan
Posted by on Sunday, October 14, 2007 in - 1 comment
What beer to drink with baseball? Triples, of course. Or tripels or, like this one from New Holland, trippels. • Black Tulup comes across as vegetative bubble gum. A bit of a shock after that Tripel Karmeliet [which will not go reviewed] and its echos of Hungarian Tokay - honey, almond, that …
Belgium: Jan Van Gent, Liefmans, Dentergem
Posted by on Sunday, October 14, 2007 in - 1 comment
I was going to cheat on you, have a beer and not review it but this 5.5% Belgian pale ale is too good not to note. A massive rocky off white head sits over dark straw ale. The malt is all pear juice - quite extraordinary. It has a great French bread crust texture as well as some fine lacy faded …
Paul Discovers Grimbergen Blanche
Posted by on Saturday, October 13, 2007 in - leave a comment
As mentioned in a previous article, I delighted in trying new wheat beers on our holiday in Alsace this year. And whilst bieres blanche are readily available, I suspect that blonde beer is probably more popular in France. A popular blonde in Northern France and certainly one of my favourites is …
Hair Of The Dog: Fred Update
Posted by on Thursday, October 11, 2007 in - 2 comments
So it's been ten months since I got the case of Fred with the crap cap job. Rather than complain - or recap - I loaded them up with weight and have been sipping them quite happily as the days became weeks and then months. • The beer has settled down a bit. Rather than pour an explosive head like …
