Posts Tagged: Beer Reviews
Four North East IPAs
Posted by on Monday, September 6, 2004 in - 1 comment
PA's Tröegs Hopback, southwest NY's Southern Tier, Ithaca's Flower Power and Maine's Shipyard. • Porter lost out to India Pale Ale somewhere in the mid-1800s. The style came out of the export trade to the British soldiers in the Empire - by brewing double strength and double hopped, the ale …
Three Mid-Atlantic Brown Ales
Posted by on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 in - leave a comment
Brooklyn Brown Ale, Ithaca Nut Brown Ale, Tröegs Nut Brown Ale • Brown Ale is a difficult style. It is really a bunch of styles from England, Belgium, Scotland and the USA. When you think of it...pretty much all beer is brown. And, really, so it ever was until someone figured out how to dry pale …
Five From Penn And One New Yorker
Posted by on Monday, August 16, 2004 in - 4 comments
As part of a continuing tradition of investigative reporting, I present five Pennsylvanians and one south central New Yorker: • Click on the picture for, really, nothing more than a slightly larger picture of the same thing. • I've give some detail as I pop a few of these starting with the …
Belgium: Four Whites or Wittes or Wits
Posted by on Saturday, June 12, 2004 in - 1 comment
Hoegaarden, Ommegang Witte, Unibroue Blanche de Chambly, Brouwerij Sint-Jozef Brussels White • It's a tough job. Over the last month I assembled this collection of Belgian white beers which are cloudy wheat based ales flavoured with dried orange peel, corriander seed and other traditional spices …
Belhaven Fruit Beer, Scotland
Posted by on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 in - leave a comment
I am fairly pleased to say I have only met one beer I did not like - Garrison Jalapena Ale. Mouth gets hot, take a drink, mouth gets hotter, take a drink, mouth gets hotter...you get the idea. • Belhaven Fruit Beer is not quite that but it isn't quite fruity either. When very fresh raspberries …
Three American Brews
Posted by on Friday, May 14, 2004 in - leave a comment
I was going to call this post Three Summer Ales in homage to the winter version but what with the current Molson ad running on the TV about why would you drink an American beer any more than you would buy a Morrocan snowmobile, I am compelled to point out that most Molson products have a little …
Three Winter Ales
Posted by on Thursday, January 29, 2004 in - 8 comments
These are three great candidates for the best have-one-bottle beer. Nothing for the faint hearted, though: Young's Double Chocolate Stout ($3.10 for 500 ml at 5.2%) from London, UK; Victory Storm King Imperial Stout ($2.40 for 355 ml at 9.1%) from Pennsylvania; and Anchor Liberty Ale ($3.55 for … read more »
