Posts Tagged: Beer Reviews
Gary Tries Three Dutch Micros
Posted by on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 in - 1 comment
Like pennies from heaven, this correspondent received beers from Amsterdam. Nothing else to do but drink them! I notice the book review of a history of Dutch brewing here, so this is most apropos. I loved the first I tried, an unfiltered lager reviewed here from Christoffel. I didn't know what it …
Session 3: The Closest Thing To Mild Around Here
Posted by on Friday, May 4, 2007 in - 4 comments
OK, here is a further last note about my best bet for a bottle of mild or a mild like product made in Ontario - Black Oak's Nut Brown Ale from Oakville to the west of Toronto. In the early 1970s, David Line (the grandfather of all homebrewing and thereby the great-grandfather of the modern craft …
Quick Note: Pranqster, North Coast, California, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 in - leave a comment
This is the fourth anniversary of the blog from which this blog spawned. My first beer post will be four years old next month. That has nothing in particular to do with North Coast's Pranqster except that I feel like a treat. • A gorgeous glowing orange amber ale clouded by a fine suspension of …
Three New Czech Brews
Posted by on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 in - 2 comments
The launch of two new beers from Pilsner Urquell • It's great news for beer fans (and tough breaks for beer writers): so many new brewpubs and new • beers are showing up here in the Czech Republic that keeping track is an almost impossible task. When researching my Czech beer guide, I tasted …
Quick Note: Pendle Witches Brew, Moorhouse's, England
Posted by on Monday, April 23, 2007 in - leave a comment
Infinitely more-ish slightly clouded and slightly oranged amber ale under a thick frothy light orange cream head. Somewhat herbed candyish on the sniffer. In the mouth woody hops. [Ed.: I'd say Fuggles but who knows anymore what with all these hybrids.] Masses of fruit - russet apple, fresh date …
Quick Note: Wraspberry Ale, Wild Rose, Alberta, Canada
Posted by on Thursday, April 19, 2007 in - leave a comment
This one slipped through the lines care of the National Beer Policy (NBP) in which the free amongst us share beer without regard to inter-provincial borders. Wild Rose Brewery of Calgary is rebuilding its website but, according to the BAers, they have a pretty strong line up. • It pours a smart …
Quick Note: Wheat Wine Ale, Smuttynose, NH, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 in - leave a comment
Why do the rude Dutchmen laugh behind her back? I am quite taken by the label, a charming and not at all disease-ridden 19th century agricultural worker lady bringing in the sheaves. Laugh? They should be all rejoicing as this is a really nice beer - a hybrid of American wheat meeting barleywine …
In The Good Beer Blog Mailbag And Around The Internet
Posted by on Monday, April 16, 2007 in - leave a comment
Is this the best place to have a beer? • I get lots of email. Sure there is a lot of spam but some of it, like the picture above from Paul, is from the writers and plenty is from readers. Paul wrote to send me a bit of the trip he and herself to the village of which included a B+B and a pub …
Belgium: Bruin Bier, Brouwerij der Sint-Benedictusabdij de Achelse Kluis
Posted by on Thursday, April 12, 2007 in - 3 comments
After dumping two very weird beers (who knew a beer could remind me of Old Spice pit wax?) I needed a break - something I could trust and what can you trust more than a dubbel with the Trappist logo on the label...unless one without the label, if you know what I mean. This 8% brew from the …
Holland: Double Hopped Bier, Christoffel
Posted by on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 in - leave a comment
Having received a rather interesting box of exotic brews from Amsterdam - like Knut did but without paying Norwegian tax - I am diving in here with the beer in the cute bottle first, labeled "Double Hopped Bier" from Christoffel. You will notice, as my wife did, that there is one of those little …
