Posts Tagged: Porter Season
Ontario: Yuletide Cherry Porter, Barley Days, Picton
Posted by on Sunday, December 21, 2008 in - leave a comment
Apres shovel. • I had been waiting for this beer for a while. In 2006, I even went looking for it only to find the predecessor brewery rather empty. Fortunately, the Barley Days story has been a happy one so far. I have been a repeat purchaser of their Wind and Sail Dark Ale, though I heard from …
Maine: Imperial Porter, Shipyard Brewing, Portland
Posted by on Thursday, December 4, 2008 in - 2 comments
I have a huge soft spot for Shipyard. Ten years ago, when I lived in the Canadian Maritimes to the east of Maine [You: ...there is something... to the east... of Maine??] it was a taste of civilization getting across the border to taste the southern delights of their export ale or - madness of …
Craft Or Kraphtt: Porter, Michelob Brewing, St Louis, Mo.
Posted by on Saturday, November 22, 2008 in - 3 comments
I was going to write "wow" or something but that wouldn't quite capture my surprise at how good this beer is. Poured at a chilly cellar temperature, there is an immediate mass of dry cocoa that sits in such balance with that bit of hop, a little java and that little nod to dark plum that …
Saturday Night Dinner Norwegian Style In Canada
Posted by on Saturday, September 27, 2008 in - 1 comment
I hope Knut would be proud. I made dinner tonight entirely out of the Kitchen of Light, a Norwegian cookbook based on a series by Andreas Viestad called New Scandinavian Cooking. We have a series on DVD. The parsnips baked with cumin and olive oil were the best but the way Viestad directed that … read more »
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 …
