Posts Tagged: Porter Season
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 …
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 - 1 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 …
