Posts Tagged: Porter Season
Porter Season: Nightmare, Hambleton Ales, Melmerby, England
Posted by on Monday, May 12, 2008 in - leave a comment
There's plenty to read on this label. The beers full name seems to be "Nightmare Yorkshire Porter" and it's brewed by "Nick Stafford's Hambleton Ales" - there's even a subtitle "Legend of the White Horse" plus a blurb on the side about the damn white horse. In the UK it appears to be labeled as a …
Porter Season: Raspberry Porter, Southern Tier, NY, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 in - leave a comment
All things have to come to an end and the season of porter is no different. The deep freeze has come here at the east end of Lake Ontario and autumns turning leave and harvest are long gone. Tripels, Christmas ales, imperial stouts and barley wine will be everything until the snow banks begin to …
Porter Season: Porter, Harvey and Sons, Lewes, England
Posted by on Thursday, November 29, 2007 in - 4 comments
Are there comfort beers like there are comfort foods? Maybe we should restructure our categorizations of beer based on how you feel as you have one. This beer surely would make many lists of beers that imitate how a heavy fall sweater feels, how a basement rec room cocoons. • The only brewery I …
Porter Season: Porter, Okocim, Brzesko, Poland
Posted by on Monday, November 26, 2007 in - 2 comments
When I worked in Poland 16 years ago I tried plenty of Okocim ("oko-cheem") but you never knew what you were going to get from the corner shops run by Zbigniew or Piotr out of their homes, their own fledgling first steps in capitalist democracy. They were subject to the vagaries of supply in a …
Porter Season: Four US Porters Side-By-Side-By-Side-By-Side
Posted by on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 in - 2 comments
...Colorado, Maine, New York, Massachusetts... • This porter season thing is a little overwhelming - sure it's a whole season but there's supposed to be snow by Friday and I gotta get on to the imperial stouts, old ales and barleywines...and winter beers...and Christmas ales. You know I want to …
Porter Season: 6, Baltika, St. Petersburg, Russia
Posted by on Monday, November 12, 2007 in - 3 comments
What do I think about drinking Russian beer? I suppose, having lived in Poland on the Baltic, I really should accept that whatever could have been done likely was done some time ago. Whatever is in the water, however, the rest of it is pretty tasty. A thick cream head resolves to a rim of beige …
Porter Season: Porter, Ølfabrikken, Vejby, Denmark
Posted by on Monday, October 29, 2007 in - 3 comments
Even though the costs of imports is a slightly different question that that of regionally made and bought craft beers, given recent posts, you can imagine my excitement that this 500 ml bottle cost me 9.00 USD - and I bought it back when nine buck was nine bucks and not 8.57 Canadian. It's 50 …
Porter Season: XII, Imperial Porter, Middle Ages, Syracuse, NY
Posted by on Sunday, October 21, 2007 in - 2 comments
My high school history teacher taught us when you want to use the word "very" try using "damn" to see if it worked better. Most times neither were necessary. Lately that's been one point underlying much of the discussion around the word "imperial" - like this post by Ron, this by Stan and this by …
Porter Season: Porter, Nøgne Ø, Grimstad, Norway
Posted by on Saturday, October 6, 2007 in - 3 comments
We are having a two month dry spell that has extended into October, bringing with it the sorts of temperatures that should have been fading away five weeks ago. Porter season is late hear at the most easterly point of the Great Lakes. And yet I think of the snow and winter and of Knut because this …
Porter Season: Deep Enders Dark Porter, Anderson Valley, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 in - leave a comment
Just because the night came earlier, it was still hot - not even getting too far below 20C tonight. Just because it is autumn, is it porter season? • This one pours very deep dark black with a fine mocha head and reeks of date, damson plum and bakers chocolate. Lighter body than you would expect …
