Posts Tagged: Stouts
Maine: Black, Allagash Brewing Company, Portland
Posted by on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 in - 4 comments
You will recall I visited Portland, Maine a few weeks ago and when there stopped by Allagash Brewing to pick up a small haul to bring back. The beer called only Black is describes as a Belgian style stout, the only other example of which I have seen is Podge Belgian Imperial Stout sampled in the …
An Update On The State Of Beer In Ireland
Posted by on Saturday, July 12, 2008 in - 3 comments
The LA Times has an interesting article today on the changing state of Guinness in the beer drinking life of Ireland: • Ireland is still the second-biggest beer-drinking market in the world, after the Czech Republic. But beer consumption has declined 15% since 2001. Rural pubs were closing last …
BrewDog Is Encouraging You To Do Bad Bad Things
Posted by on Thursday, July 10, 2008 in - 1 comment
What a burden it must be to be a firm with cheeky humour in a land...known for its cheeky humour. What would Billy Connelly say about this new move by the clearly irresponsible madmen in charge of this brewery?!? • Earlier this year BrewDog, the award-winning microbrewery, faced being …
Stouts: Milk Stout, The Duck Rabbit, Farmville, North Carolina
Posted by on Monday, June 16, 2008 in - 1 comment
I got this beer for being good, or at least neighbourly, when I took up the task of judging these brews a little while back. Milk stout reminds me of being good - I recall being handed a can of Tennent's Sweetheart Stout when visiting the Scots cousins when I was a teen. At 2% it had the light …
Belgium: Podge Belgian Imperial Stout, Alvinne, Inglemunster
Posted by on Thursday, May 22, 2008 in - 1 comment
Is this the worst label ever? It looks like it came off a black and white photocopier. Plus, how am I expected to fit the full name and brewery info in up there? That would be "Podge Belgian Imperial Stout, Picobrouwerij Alvinne, Ingelmunster." But these things are really unimportant and more than …
Stouts: Choklat, Imperial Stout, Southern Tier, New York
Posted by on Friday, February 15, 2008 in - leave a comment
Chok-o-la-da. That is how we say it in our house because we met in Poland back in 1991. Gdansk was a hot bed of decent chocolate that was sold for pennies a bar around the Baltic shore towns like the one where we lived. Other than that, I am fairly indifferent to the stuff. • On the nose, is/are …
Josh Tries Two Stouts Worth Nine Bucks For A Four Pack
Posted by on Monday, February 11, 2008 in - 6 comments
There has been some talk about the price of beer on this blog, the ascent of beer to a luxury status, and the proper place of beer. For me $9 for a 4 pack is in the realm of luxury, a special occasion beer or a once a month type of beer. Unfortunately I find a lot these beers are over-hyped and …
Stouts: Big Bear Black, Bear Republic, Healdsburg, California
Posted by on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 in - 2 comments
Ah, Bear Republic. I've tried three and I've liked three. Their Hot Rod Rye sits in the stash still. • This one pours an extremely attractive clinging fine thick rich mocha head over deep brown ale. In the mouth there is espresso, fig newton, dark plum and dry cocoa with plenty of semi-minty and …
Stout: Russian Imperial, Stone Brewing, California, USA
Posted by on Thursday, January 17, 2008 in - 13 comments
Sometimes when I have a stout, I often think to myself that it's no Freeminer Deep Shaft Stout, a beer I was recently reminded of by its listing in the December BeerAdvocate - and particularly reminded of when I noticed that the magazine had used my very own photo from that 2004 post to illustrate …
Ontario: Stout, Hockley Valley Brewing, Mono-Adjala Townline
Posted by on Friday, January 11, 2008 in - 8 comments
My prayers have been answered in one small way. A beer has shown up locally at about a 50% discount, a stout made by the good lads at Hockley an hour and a bit north east of Toronto. It is so new that their website has not caught up to it. Previously, it had only been available seasonally and in a …
