Posts Tagged: Styles
Belgium: Three Saisons for Hogmanay
Posted by on Saturday, December 31, 2005 in - 8 comments
What to sip for for the New Year, for Hogmanay, as we wait for the baby in the sash to kick the old bearded guy with the staff out of the room as we wait for the odometer of life to click over one more digit? • What better than saison, one of the great ale styles. One, Hennepin, from Ommegang of …
Three Imperial Stouts
Posted by on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 in - 8 comments
The season of Yule demands big beers and there are few bigger as a style, rather than some stunt for high alcohol, than the imperial stout. The Beer Judge Certificate Program describes the style in this way: • “Intensely fruity and malty, backed up by balancing roastiness and prominent hop …
Quicknote: Celis Grand Cru, Michigan, USA
Posted by on Sunday, December 11, 2005 in - 6 comments
This beer is from the Michigan Brewing Company but formerly was brewed in Austin Texas by Pierre Celis who had immigrated there after played a key role in the restoration of the entire Belgian white beer style. The brewery has a Flash time-line on all that history and here are three beer blog …
IPAs from Sleeman and L'Alchimiste
Posted by on Sunday, December 11, 2005 in - 9 comments
IPAs (India pale ales) have been a source of perturbation for me ever since I started learning about beer. In my youth – which is to say, up until I was about 40 – I was quite happy to simply drink the stuff (beer) without making any inquiries. Sure, I was one of the first to embrace the …
Collecting Belgians Again
Posted by on Saturday, December 10, 2005 in - leave a comment
Last year, I wrote about collecting Belgians and how you have to have a strategy for dealing with the variety and the strength. A great one is to suggest popping over to friends and sharing. At up to and over 10%, popping a large bottle ought to be a communal event. This year's line-up includes …
Big Hop Bombs: Hop Wallop Ale, Victory Brewing, PA, USA
Posted by on Monday, November 28, 2005 in - 3 comments
A quiet weekend around here as I was off in central New York state picking up some more beer to keep your insatiable appetite for my views on brews fed...or at least watered. Also quiet because I've been muttering under my breath about another digital camera that has died on me. For the short term …
Another Three Whites Or Wittes Or Wits
Posted by on Saturday, November 5, 2005 in - 3 comments
Last year I did a side by side of four wittes or wits, Belgian white beers. Here I repeat the inclusion of the elemental wit, Hoegaarden, as a benchmark for comparison with the white in the middle from Allagash, a micro from Maine focusing on Belgian beers, and Blue Moon, which is actually … read more »
8<sup><small>th</small></sup> Anniversary Ale, Stone, California, USA
Posted by on Thursday, November 3, 2005 in - leave a comment
What can you say about a beer that says so much about itself. I picked this one out of the stash, $5.99 USD last time I was south. It is a one off brew made in August 2004 from Stone of a previous standard of theirs called Lee's Mild...which makes it more of a revival than a one off. At 7.8% I am …
Pump House Scotch Ale, New Brunswick, Canada
Posted by on Monday, October 31, 2005 in - 2 comments
Pump House Brewery is located in Moncton, New Brunswick, "the hub" of the Maritime provinces. But is it the brewing hub? This remains to be seen. • While I intend to sample more of their fare, their Scotch Ale was not for me. It may well be that scotch ales in general are not for me, as this one …
Weyerbacher Brewing Company, Easton, PA, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 in - 9 comments
I did not see their Imperial Raspberry Stout - just the Old Heathen Imperial Stout and the Imperial Pumpkin Ale. You know, this use of the old "imperial" adjective is all the rage in the US craft brewing trade. It originally meant a honking big stout and was roughly to porter what barley wine was …
