Posts Tagged: Stouts
Michigan: Dragon's Milk, New Holland Brewing, Holland
Posted by on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 in - 7 comments
Had the tripel and had concerns. I have no such concerns this evening. • I could make this a short matter and tell you this is like chocolate fudge cake laced with bourbon. Is that so bad? Can't we be happy enough with that? Apparently not. There is coffee, dark plum, dark and milk chocolates as …
A Beer In Need: XIII, Weyerbacher, Easton, PA
Posted by on Thursday, October 8, 2009 in - 5 comments
So, someone from the Federal sales tax or GST office called and left a message. Seems like when I paid the annual surcharge on the beer blog ads through my bank, well, seems like the bank didn't forward the paperwork with the little stamp on it. Man on the Phone (MOTP) told me they got my money …
Quebec: Noire D'Atwater, Au Maître Brasseur, Laval
Posted by on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 in - 1 comment
750 ml for $4.79 Canadian. How would that rate on a Beer Price Index (BPI)? Stan gave me the nod about the BPI. I think it needs to have a BAI factored into it - Beer Advocate Index - as this brew got a "D" from the one Advoctonian who rated it. I don't know if I have had a "D" rated beer before …
Vermont: Odd Notion Fall '09, Magic Hat, SoBurl
Posted by on Sunday, September 6, 2009 in - leave a comment
If Google is anything to go by - and it might well turn out to be - then I have clearly had a fair number of beers by Magic Hat. Like the buttery goodness. Like the quirky branding. Like the experimentations. This beer is one of there recent Odd Notions and I am told it is a stout, which it is … read more »
Michigan: Too, Cream Stout, Dark Horse Brewing, Marshall
Posted by on Monday, August 17, 2009 in - 5 comments
When I was at Dark Horse last week, I picked up a few of their beers at Wacky Willy's Party Store, which sits at the south western corner of the brewery compound. I was told they sell all their beer through their tenant Wacky's... because before they did Wacky's wasn't selling any beer at all. It …
Scotland: Paradox Springbank, BrewDog, Fraserburgh
Posted by on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 in - 6 comments
"It smells like the granary when it's filled." I think that is what I was told but it makes sense. • It pours - imagine - rather deep brownish and has a rich mocha froth and foam. The nose in delightful. Fig and chocolate, milk and bread crust. Like a rich child's breakfast in 1710. The mouth …
Yukon: Midnight Sun, Yukon Brewing, Whitehorse
Posted by on Thursday, March 26, 2009 in - 3 comments
A thirteen hour day. John Stewart rather than the evening news as I shake off the tie and suit jacket. What to do? Have a beer from Whitehorse, of course. Wouldn't you? Don't you?? This beer from the Yukon Brewing Company came my way through one of the beer fans I have been cultivating locally who …
England: Entire Stout, Hopback Brewery, Wiltshire
Posted by on Sunday, March 15, 2009 in - 2 comments
I have had this beer in the stash for a while - at least before it won a CAMRA prize - and privately fretted over it. I was sure I had left it too long for its 4.5%, that when I poured it would be nothing but fouled water and black cottage cheese. How wrong I was. As rich and stiff a foaming head …
Scotland: Paradox Smokehead, BrewDog, Aberdeenshire
Posted by on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in - 2 comments
OK, the cold is still there but something has to shake it. I can't wait to tomorrow either as that is the day of The Session and this time that means the day of lager love. Given that it is love of macro crap mass produced lager, while it should make for a good read, it is not something I am …
Stout: Oyster Stout, Marston, Burton-on-Trent, England
Posted by on Monday, February 23, 2009 in - leave a comment
I am slightly spooked. Spooked by the calories of big beers, spooked by how much effort it takes to balance off a big beer and stuff like that. But I have a low freaking tolerence combined with a with a high resistence to change so it isn't the end of the world. Had I only taken up fencing when I …
