Posts Tagged: Belgium and the Belgian-Influenced
To What End, The Traveling Beer Writer's Argument?
Posted by on Saturday, December 4, 2010 in - 7 comments
I was shaking my head at another piece of Roger Protz's writing last night. This time it was a bit on Chimay. I like Chimay as much as anyone so my concerns do not relate to the brewer - but you will recall that Mr. Protz is hardly monastic himself. He has a temper and a lack of discretion when it …
Session 46: On Contest Day 20 A Rare One Was Opened
Posted by on Friday, December 3, 2010 in - 2 comments
This is crazy. Three beer blogging themes meet on one night. This is the final Friday of the Yule, Christmas, Hogmanay, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa 2010 Good Beer Blog Photo Contest. It is also the weekend that Mark Dredge demanded we Open It! And it is the night of The Session's 46th edition. That is …
Belgium: Scaldis Blond Triple, Brasserie Dubuisson
Posted by on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 in - 2 comments
Enough of the art: "...more Bergman than Fellini."!?! What a thing to say. I can't believe it. What a comment. I simply can't believe it. I am simply gutted. Only one thing to do. Have a beer. • I got this one a couple of months ago at Finger Lake Beverages as part of The Attack of the Gueuze … read more »
Beau's Thursday Night Tasting In the Backyard
Posted by on Thursday, August 12, 2010 in - 5 comments
A fun way to spend the evening. Beau's had their quarterly business meetings in town and they all came over for a few hours of opening bottles - including the father, son and a sizable host. We nine started well with two saisons and biere de garde: Hennepin, Jack D'or and 3 Monts. Batch 10 from …
California: Black Orchard, The Bruery, Placentia
Posted by on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 in - 2 comments
A discontinued beer. Great. It's not even listed by the brewery. Never made their blog...oh, yes it did. Still, its departed. Yet there it is, cooling is the cistern. I picked this up in Ithaca because I had never seen on of their brews this far east and was please to see the price below ten bucks …
New York: Zuur, Ommegang, Cooperstown
Posted by on Friday, July 30, 2010 in - 2 comments
I know I should have gone to the brewery. I know. I know I know. But I was on holiday and sick and I needed to save it up for the Baseball Hall of Fame because it's the year another sweet Expo enters and, well, I liked the Expos. I got the hat, OK? Let it go. Jeesh. • Zurr doesn't even seem …
Florida: Saison Athene, Saint Somewhere, Tarpon Springs
Posted by on Friday, July 23, 2010 in - 3 comments
I didn't expect this to be my first Floridian beer but I guess it is. Andy Crouch in his soon to be published (review copy delivered yesterday) Great American Craft Beer calls it both "a flavor parade of spice" and a "spice bazaar" which gives me some pause. Can I handle it? • It opens with a … read more »
Do Olde Geuze And Oysters Go Together?
Posted by on Saturday, July 17, 2010 in - 8 comments
I was out hunting for some Caribbean stout to go with the PEI oysters I picked up and the incredibly jambi Mike Mundell's shop this afternoon. Without success. What to do? • I love oysters. I used to live in view of the Gulf of St. Lawrence on PEI's north shore and heading over to Carr's at …
New York: 12, Ithaca Beer Co., Ithaca
Posted by on Thursday, July 15, 2010 in - leave a comment
Bought a couple of these at the brewery Tuesday for something between 7 or 9 bucks. I have a weakness for quads. Confessing. Even in a heat wave. • It pours cola with a light mocha foam and rim. The nose is pumpernickel with a nice spicy thing down below, maybe cinnamon and nutmeg. In the mouth …
Maine: 11th Anniversary Ale, Allagash, Portland
Posted by on Saturday, May 29, 2010 in - leave a comment
Memorial Day weekend el norte continues with this four year old treat from Allagash in Maine. Sixteen bucks for 750 ml at 9.2% in 2006? I have no idea. Pre-recession pricing is meaningless to me now. • The brewery speaks highly of this creation which finds itself this far into its life looking …
