Posts Tagged: Porter Season
Porter Season: Porter, Okocim, Brzesko, Poland
Posted by on Monday, November 26, 2007 in - 3 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 - 4 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 … read more »
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 …
Porter Season: Black Irish Plain Porter, Scotch Irish, ONT, CAN
Posted by on Saturday, September 22, 2007 in - 1 comment
Greg beat me to this review but only because he is in the heart of LCBO-land, Toronto, and it takes some beers weeks to make the two hour trip east. The nuttiness of that is compounded by the fact that beer is brewed by Scotch Irish Brewing (now aka Heritage Brewing) of Carleton Place to the east …
Porter Season: Black Hole, Weyerbacher, PA, USA
Posted by on Thursday, September 20, 2007 in - 3 comments
If stinking hot July is the month for wheat beers and the end of summer is the time for sour fruit beers, then the end of September has to herald the slowing down of my sour beer studies and the beginning of the season of porters. Why? First, they go with stew and they go in stew and no one eats …
New York: Porter, Rohrbach Brewing, Rochester
Posted by on Saturday, August 18, 2007 in - leave a comment
Growlers are not common in Canada. A few micros are now selling them at the brewery but nothing like in NY state where any decent beer store has a few good beers on draft for the customers to fill half-gallon jugs with. • This beer pours deep cola brown under a mocha loose large bubbled rim and …
