Posts Tagged: Styles
Big Hop Bombs: The Week of Eleven Big US India Pale Ales
Posted by on Thursday, March 29, 2007 in - 2 comments
Two of my favorite eleven a side squads - IPA and AFC • Springtime is here. For me this is the perfect season for those American green, weedy IPAs that taste like liquid salad with gasoline for dressing. Autumn cries out for stouts and porters while winter needs a slow-sipped tripel or the malt …
Session 2: Don't Forget Your Dubbels
Posted by on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 in - 3 comments
Greg has reminded us to remind him to remind me that the day of the dubbels is coming a week Friday. I also rooted around in the cellar and found a bottle from a north-east US brewer that I bought a while ago, have never tried and forgot about so that should be an interesting taste. • Still, I … read more »
Can the Water Be The Best Part?
Posted by on Friday, March 9, 2007 in - 4 comments
Or if not the best part, can it be the thing that makes a beer extreme? [Or is it X-treme? Maybe X-treem! That's it.] • Anyway, Lew was asking again about session beers and X-treem! ones and wondered out loud if sessions are really just the lowest common denominators. Thinking about it, I wrote … read more »
I Declare! The Next Choice For The Session Is...
Posted by on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 in - 7 comments
Which author's second work out did his first? Who remembers the sophomore record by last year's big new band? That is sort of the feeling which I approach this, the declaration of the second beer style for The Session, the monthly global multi-blog-a-rama of beery goodness that was triggered by …
The Session: Me And Stouts
Posted by on Friday, March 2, 2007 in - 7 comments
It would be easy if there was only one stout in the stash that I have yet to try. But I have Avery's Out Of Bounds, North Coast's Old 38 as well as Hop Back's Entire Stout. And I know them not. Other have their posts up already. Not Lew. If I can just make up my mind, I might get my post up before …
Germany: The Week Of Nine German Beers
Posted by on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 in - 19 comments
What an awful photo. The colours are all over the place, the bottles are not straight and I am not even sure that it is in focus. This is sort of how I feel about my understanding of German and German-style beers. I am not a fan and I base that primarily on ignorance. Fortunately I have the Good …
The New York Times Considers Brownness
Posted by on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 in - 4 comments
Our pal Lew Bryson wrangles another date with free beer at the New York Times, this time on brown ales.
Belgium: Scotch, Brasserie de Silly, Silly
Posted by on Sunday, January 14, 2007 in - leave a comment
In his mid-70s first edition of The World Guide to Beer, Michael Jackson wrote: • “The fact that the Scots do not celebrate Christmas (preferring to save their serious drinking for New Year's Eve¹) might surprise Belgians. In Belgium, "Scotch" is not a whisky, but a very dark and creamy beer of …
Stouts: The Week Of Ten Stouts
Posted by on Sunday, December 31, 2006 in - 12 comments
I've written about plenty of stouts before but never a collection this big: imperial stouts, imperial extra double stout and just plain stouts, from four US states as well as Quebec, England and Australia. Stout has experienced a great diversification in its sub-styles through the explosion of …
Two North-East US Winter Ales
Posted by on Monday, December 11, 2006 in - 3 comments
You thought I was going to title this A Tale of Two Winters or something all Dickensy like that, right? Well, I didn't. Sometimes you just have to set aside the Dickens and move on. These are two brews from two of my favorite smaller breweries within striking range of my place, Winterizer from the …
