Posts Tagged: Styles
Is Twisted Thistle An IPA?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 in - 28 comments
I picked up this beer while on the road and I was immediately in a fix, dealing with cultural confusion. As a son of Scots I know that Belhaven is a fine and reputable brewer of Scots ales bought last year by Greene King...yet I know IPA is not a Scots style. I have discussed this before in …
Ontario: Confederation Ale, Robert Simpson Brewing, Barrie, Simcoe County
Posted by on Friday, April 14, 2006 in - 3 comments
A can of beer from Barrie. Mmmm. Robert Simpson Brewing is a brewer that does not make it to the east end of Lake Ontario. I picked this one up a few weeks ago at the Queens Quay LCBO in Toronto. The BAers, who have some reservations at 21% nay, call it a cream ale - which to me means a warmer …
Big News From Ithaca Beer Co.
Posted by on Thursday, April 13, 2006 in - 2 comments
I like press releases. They give me a strange sense that someone somewhere out there has thought about this blog for the seven seconds it takes to add me to their email circulation list. It's the little things that give joy, you know. • Well, this news has made me think that I may try to make a …
The Two-IPA Challenge
Posted by on Friday, March 24, 2006 in - 2 comments
I've wanted to try this comparison for a while. Sgt. Major's IPA from Fitzroy Harbour in the Ottawa Valley is a unique beer in at least the eastern side Canada in that it attempts to take on the US style on its own chewy hoppy terms. Hop Devil IPA from Victory in Pennsylvania is one of the classic …
Blending Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 in - 21 comments
Mixing beer has a venerable heritage - whether it is the black and tan with Guinness floating upon a higher gravity lager or Newcastle Brown with its pre-made mix of 1/3 older stock ale and 2/3 fresh...or is it the other way? But recently I have taken to 20% good raspberry lambic with 80% oatmeal …
Barley Wine: Old Horizontal, Victory, PA, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 in - 2 comments
Barley wine. Sorta like winter warmers times two that have funnier names. No insanely massive hopping or extreme exotic malts, though there is a bit of each. More like a lack of water really. Two other favorites of mine are Old Foghorn from Anchor and Druid Fluid from Middle Ages. • Old …
Abita Brewing Company, Abita Springs, LA, USA
Posted by on Friday, February 17, 2006 in - 8 comments
Another new guest author from the south of the border has joined the team, Scott Gordon of • Evanston, Illinois near Chicago. He sent me some information about Reconstruction Ale by the Abita Brewing Company from near New Orleans and I thought it would be a good intro to a review of some of the …
Three US Doubles
Posted by on Saturday, January 28, 2006 in - 2 comments
Art by John Neville • A weekend's worth of work, these three large format Belgian Abbey style doubles brewed in Pennsylvania, California and New York from left to right above. I wrote a bit about four doubles just a little over a year ago, including the Ommegang. I repeat it here as the standard …
Five More From Weyerbacher, Easton, PA, USA
Posted by on Saturday, January 21, 2006 in - 3 comments
Last fall I reviewed the Weyerbacher Brewing Company's Old Heathen Imperial Stout and the Imperial Pumpkin Ale and when I was last down south I picked up this mix of five more of their brews. Weyerbacher has a new web site which is worth checking out. In their history section they explain some of …
Four Northeast US Winter Ales
Posted by on Saturday, January 14, 2006 in - 8 comments
What is a winter beer? A beer brewed for winter? Is it that simple? CAMRA's annual National Winter Ales Festival is aimed at old ales, stouts and porters but that is not what the US understands by the term. As the Magic Hat offering is called "a dark wheat ale" on the label you can expect to find …
