Posts Tagged: Beer Reviews
Brewery Focus: Bell's Oberon Ale, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Posted by on Thursday, August 23, 2007 in - 4 comments
Finally, the last of my six beers from Bell's of Michigan. The brewery calls it an American wheat ale but it pours deeply cloudy amber ale under a thin white foam and rim with a whacking great big glob of yeast left in the bottom of the bottle. Not like any American wheat I've seen lately. Drying …
Best Bitter, St. Peter's, Bungay, Suffolk, UK
Posted by on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 in - 6 comments
This is why it is so great to have the LCBO in my life - they use science. It actually came up in the Globe and Mail today in relation to some recent wine forgeries: • “The quality assurance process undertaken for every single alcoholic beverage sold by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the …
New York: Porter, Rohrbach Brewing, Rochester
Posted by on Saturday, August 18, 2007 in - leave a comment
Growlers are not common in Canada. A few micros are now selling them at the brewery but nothing like in NY state where any decent beer store has a few good beers on draft for the customers to fill half-gallon jugs with. • This beer pours deep cola brown under a mocha loose large bubbled rim and …
Big Hop Bombs: Three Friday Night Big Pale Ales
Posted by on Friday, August 17, 2007 in - 2 comments
Here we are. A Friday night in a summer that is drawing to a close - at least up here in Canada. Time to get out some summer bombs out of the stash. • First up is far southwestern New York's Southern Tier's Hoppe, an imperial pale ale. Wow. A drier 10% imperial extra pale ale. Not an imperial …
Really Old Brown Dog Ale 2007, Smuttynose, NH, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 in - leave a comment
Even in the new world, there is obviously something old time about brown ale in the sense that there is a reasonable argument that it is the predecessor or even mother of all styles. In 2004 - and again last week as it happens - I enjoyed a Smuttynose variety pack that included the junior version …
About Oaked Beer: Burton Baton, Dogfish Head, DE, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 in - leave a comment
I've told you about the writings of Bob Cowser Jr., right? More here but buy these books. You will be happier or wiser or something. • I wonder if Dogfish Head's 10% blend of young and oak-aged Imperial IPAs will make me feel as good as those books did. The brewer says: • “A blend of oak-aged …
Ontario: Wind And Sail Dark Ale, Barley Days Brewery, Picton
Posted by on Saturday, August 11, 2007 in - 1 comment
So what do I do when back from a beer hunt? Go beer shopping I guess. Barley Days Brewing on the west side of Picton is the resurrection of the former Glenora Springs brewery to the east side of Picton which had an unfortunate track record of unintended lambics noted here and here a year and a … read more »
Ontario: F + M Brewing, Elmira Road, Guelph,
Posted by on Friday, August 10, 2007 in - leave a comment
Neat and Tidy • Not all my travels for beer around Lake Ontario were on the US side. No, I headed straight for what must be the densest centre of brewing in Canada: Guelph, Ontario. Between the 401 and highway 7 on the west side of town you have national brewer Sleeman as well as venerable …
BF: Bell's Special Double Cream Stout, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Posted by on Friday, August 10, 2007 in - leave a comment
This is one of the best beers I have had in a long time. Thankfully, I landed a six pack when the elves drove back from Michigan the other week. This stout defines rich and would be a great introduction to beer for any chocoholic or coffee fiend who says they hate beer: licorice, espresso, dark …
Quick Note: Aviator Red, Flying Bison, Buffalo, NY, USA
Posted by on Thursday, August 9, 2007 in - 1 comment
It's a scary thing realizing you have to start moving out some of these beer in the stash. Drew gave me reason enough today what with his award winning...or at lease beerfest pass winning comment to the effect he likes this beer. Aviator Red is made by Flying Bison which describes it thusly …
