Posts Tagged: Big Bombs
Ontario: West Coast IPA, Church-Key, Campbellford
Posted by on Thursday, April 10, 2008 in - 3 comments
Driving back from Toronto, today I thought that the 50 km's worth of relief from the 401 would be worth it if only there were some of that West Coast IPA. Well, not only was it there, it was on tap for the growler fill and John was around just before heading out for a 6 hour round trip delivering …
Michigan: Sacred Cow IPA, Arbor Brewing Co., Ann Arbor
Posted by on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 in - 12 comments
The other day I had an alt. The alt by Arbor Brewing and it was so good I didn't post about it, take a note or nuttin'. I simply marveled at the most robust head on a beer I had ever seen. I also planned how I might find myself in a position to buy more • We stopped into Arbor Brewing when we …
Ontario: The Grains Of Wrath, Church-Key, Campbellford
Posted by on Monday, March 3, 2008 in - 2 comments
Excellent! A literary allusion to a classic of American prose for this month of the beer blog's poetry contest. Or to an '80s and early '90s Canuck rock indie band. Yet it's also a (skate) punk tune. I picked up this one when I was on the road coming back from Toronto last week but I have to …
Big Hop Bombs: Hallertau Imperial Pilsner, Samuel Adams, USA
Posted by on Saturday, February 23, 2008 in - leave a comment
I learned a lot from this beer. The bright orange fluid and the orange blossom green hoppy scent. This wasn't what a pilsner was supposed to be but now it is what I realize it is what I expected Dogfish Head's Golden Shower to be rather than the expensive malty perhaps malt-liquor-esque, perhaps …
Big Hop Bombs: India Pale Ale, Meantime, London, England
Posted by on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 in - 6 comments
I picked up a couple of big format bottles of Meantime beers at some point in my travels last year. I needed a Stonch-like moment to try this micro from the centre of the known universe like the one from last March when he tried this beer on an English spring afternoon. Apparently, this first …
Holland: Urthel Hop-It, Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven
Posted by on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 in - 19 comments
Holland? Not Belgium??? • Let's review the evidence: the caps says "Leyerth Breweries, Belgium" and the label says "Produced in the Netherlands". Licensed beer. How low.¹ The importer explains that the brews are all made in Holland by those Dutch monks of Koningshoeven/La Trappe but designed by … read more »
Michigan: Red's Rye, Founders Brewery, Grand Rapids
Posted by on Thursday, January 10, 2008 in - leave a comment
When I was at Bello Vino in Ann Arbor, beer manager Jeremy McClelland made sure I did not leave the store without this one. I used to have a hard time with rye beers but Bittersweet Lenny's RIPA not to mention a growing obession with my neighbourhood's Polish deli has pretty much cured me of that …
Big Hop Bombs: Extreme Beer And Your Personal Limits
Posted by on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 in - 16 comments
It's always a big day when Eric Asimov writes a beer article for The New York Times. Being Canadian, a culture with a deep seam of neediness running through it¹, you glow when you feel like you are noticed just as when the beer nerd's nerdiness gets the MSM treatment. But in today's article all … read more »
Big Hop Bombs: Ithaca Beer's IPAbbey, Me And Tom Brady
Posted by on Saturday, December 29, 2007 in - 5 comments
Is this the right thing to note? I dunno. I think sometimes that we are a bit to concerned as beer nerds that the beery moments in life are not quite up to the sip any more. But Stan has pronounced that beer is still beer and Stonch argues that it should be more the pub than the brew. There you …
Big Hop Bombs: Harvest Ale, Founders, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Posted by on Thursday, November 22, 2007 in - leave a comment
Man does not live by contests and prizes alone. Some days you need to have beer. Most days really. And what better beer to have than Founder's take on wet hopped IPA brewed with undried hops rushed from the field upon picking to the boiling wort. A seasonal released just a few weeks ago. Orange …
