Posts Tagged: Beer Reviews
Gdanskie, Gdansk, Poland
Posted by on Friday, November 19, 2004 in - leave a comment
In a quick moment of research looking up Lisa's beers in the previous post, I came across this reference to an old pal from this website: • “Gdanskie: 6.2%. Pale lager. From the now closed Hevelius brewery in Gdansk.” • Finding this stuff in a corner store in the Baltic provinces of Poland in …
Hungary Czech Hungary
Posted by on Friday, November 19, 2004 in - 15 comments
Dreher Classic, Krusovice Cerne, Borsod Bivaly • Hot in from Budapest is a digital photo of three brews picked up by Lisa shopping today. She tells us: • “I've attached a photo of some beers I bought at the grocery store. I know that the one with the bull on the front is probably pretty …
Stouts: Royal Extra Stout, Trinidad
Posted by on Thursday, November 18, 2004 in - 6 comments
This is one of my favorite winter stouts, a real foreign stout. A foreign stout was a high test export ready stout created to survive a sail. Imperial Stouts, dry and roasty at pushing 10%, were originally created for the Baltic trade between England and the northern Slavs in the late 1700s and …
Historic Ales of Scotland
Posted by on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 in - 13 comments
Alba Pine, Fraoch Heather, Ebulum Elderberry, Grozet Gooseberry • I buy this four 330 ml bottle boxed set every Christmas at the LCBO for no doubt an exorbident price given all the fancy packaging. What I do not understand is why the beers in this promotional package are not otherwise available …
Belgium: Checking Out Four Blondes
Posted by on Friday, November 12, 2004 in - 4 comments
Affligem Blonde, Bruegel Amber Ale, Leffe Blonde, Petrus Special. • In his book Belgian Ales, Pierre Rajoute states: • “Trying to classify Belgian beers in well-defined styles is like attempting to impose guidelines on the Belgian brewmaster's creativity. There are always beers that at one … read more »
National Six-Pack IV: Big Rock Traditional Ale, Alberta
Posted by on Thursday, November 11, 2004 in - leave a comment
A trip to the LCBO located this week's contender for national six-pack supremacy, Big Rock Traditional Ale out of Alberta. To review, this is the nation of Canada we are discussing and the pursuit of the best pale ale produced therein. So far we have had the great, the good and the ugly. The last …
Adnams, Suffolk, England
Posted by on Saturday, November 6, 2004 in - leave a comment
Here are two siblings I picked up recently, Adnams Broadside Original Ale and Adnams Suffolk Strong Bitter. This first was $2.99 USD at the Party Source, the second $3.25 CND at the LCBO. With taxes and custom costs, the first likely cost at least $5.00 CND. The cost of research. • The brewery …
HopDevil, Victory Brewing, Pennsylvania
Posted by on Sunday, October 31, 2004 in - 2 comments
A halloween scare...and what's scarier than the Devil? HopDevil, that is. • HopDevil has long been one of my favorite beers - indeed, it may be the beer that single handedly delivered me away from techno-swill permanently. It wasn't the first craft beer I ever had, but it was the first that …
Wychwood Brewery, Oxfordshire, England
Posted by on Sunday, October 31, 2004 in - 6 comments
All Hallows' Eve is well spent with samplings from the • Wychwood Brewery of Witney in Oxfordshire. I've enjoyed the charms of the Black Wych, and am currently squaring off with the Hobgoblin. We just had our first six trick-or-treaters, btw - 5:20pm. • Here is what the brewery says about the …
New York: Variety 12- Pack, Cooperstown Brewing, Milford
Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2004 in - 10 comments
Another big buy from my trip a few weeks ago to the Party Source in Syracuse, NY. The case of this happy vista upon cracking the cardboard. Cooperstown Brewing is not actually in Cooperstown but is a proud cornerstone of the Milford, New York business community. • Like the Smuttynose case review …
