Posts Tagged: Porter Season
What Beer Goes With Non-Stop Rain?
Posted by on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 in - 6 comments
There are summer beers for cooling you off in the sunshine. There are Octoberfest beers. There are imperial stouts for sipping as the winter weather howls beyond the doors. But what beer to have when the holiday is awash with rain? • I had a Mayflower porter last night which made a reasonable …
Quebec: Porter Baltique, Les Trois Mousquetaires
Posted by on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 in - leave a comment
This must be the best value in Baltic porters on the planet at $7.99 a 750 ml at 10%. Dated and "grand reserve", too. I don't know what "grand reserve" means in this particular case as I picked it up at Marche Omni and it didn't come out of a deep dank cavern but... • The beer pours inky brown …
Oregon: Black Butte XXI, Deschutes Brewery, Bend
Posted by on Saturday, March 6, 2010 in - 3 comments
I am delighted that samples from Deschutes get through the solid mile high maple soaked wall that is the US-Canadian border but disconcerted nonetheless. Should I be drinking a beer that says "best before 17 October 2010" or should I not? In this weekend's spirit of not being so anal about these …
Ohio: Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Great Lakes, Cleveland
Posted by on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 in - 6 comments
What is it about Canadian craft brewers? American's have a brewery called Great Lakes on the south shore of Lake Erie so we need one on the north shore of Lake Ontario. We have a New Brunswick brewery that just happens to come up with styles and names for beers that have been used for years next …
Rhode Island: Lager And Porter, Narragansett
Posted by on Saturday, January 9, 2010 in - 5 comments
I got a few emails from very nice people representing Narragansett over the fall asking if I would like some samples and, of course, I said yes. From Great American Beer, I learn that the brand was bought back from Pabst in 2003 by Mark Hellendrung, a local businessman. So, while I was not …
Day 10: Even More On Innovation And, Yes, More Photos
Posted by on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 in - 6 comments
It was a day of reading about new things in beer. Not just new new things but things that introduce newness in beer. And not just experimentation either: • Lew was not struck dumb about the new porter from Narragansett. Uncle Jack has mentioned Lew's capacity to "wax poetic about virtually every …
England: Coffee Porter, Meantime, London
Posted by on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in - 2 comments
I must have picked this up at Finger Lake Beverage last February. Lovely new web site. $3.50 USD with as cheery a small bottle as ever there was. Well, to be fair, the 375 ml cork top from Girardin is pretty damn fine but this is swell as well. • Gorgeous. Dark mahogany beer under a tan cream …
Massachusetts: Leviathan Baltic Porter, Harpoon Brewery
Posted by on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 in - leave a comment
A small sensible bottle of very strong beer from a classic New England brewery. I picked up one of each in the Leviathan series, this and the Imperial IPA. With a wall of snow outside and after shoveling my way in only to put the car exactly where it will be stuck in the morning, it was really … read more »
Porter Season: Baltic Thunder, Victory, Downingtown, PA
Posted by on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 in - 2 comments
Lew has written much about his enthusiasm for the creation of this beer from the Victory Brewing Co. of eastern Pennsylvania but I only got the chance to open one about a year after it hit the market. David was way more on top of the news. This is a decidedly good brew. And, like a lot of Baltic …
Porter 2006, Burton Bridge Brewery, Burton-Upon-Trent
Posted by on Thursday, January 8, 2009 in - 3 comments
Time. For the most part beer's enemy is time, specially for a beer with only 4.5%. But in 2000, as I've mentioned a few times, I clearly remember having a Burton Bridge Porter that was overwhelmingly bitter and pleasantly foul due no doubt to its utter mishandling and disregard. Some time ago I …
