Posts Tagged: Styles
Germany: Kölsch, Heinrich Reissdorf, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Posted by on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 in - 6 comments
I know so little about kölsch because it is so hard to find on the shelf. I know it is an ale from Köln and that municipal regulation over time has done its job in protecting the style. Clearly not much of an edjification. I found this one at Tully's in Maine in April for $2.49 each and actually …
Quick Note: Whirlwind Witbier, Victory, PA, USA
Posted by on Sunday, June 4, 2006 in - leave a comment
Ah, another white beer to try. We've discussed wits, wittes or whites here, here, here, and here. • This one pours a cloudy, particulate-floaty lemon yellow ale under white rim and foam. It is both creamy and dry due to the combination of unmalted wheat and a fairly generous level of hopping …
The Question Of Pilsner
Posted by on Saturday, June 3, 2006 in - 9 comments
There are beers I know I should like. People work very hard to make them and they are made with skill. They are popular and have names a lot of people recognize. Pilsner is one of those beers. And I don't like them generally. • Last November I found one I did like - Steam Whistle from Toronto …
Big Hop Bombs: Two California IPAs
Posted by on Friday, May 26, 2006 in - 6 comments
I picked up these last time I was in New York, far western IPAs making their way across the continent. While I have had a number of North Coast brews before - like their Rasputin Imperial Stout - and have seen them fairly regularly, it was only around last Christmas that I noted the Lagunitas …
Ukrainian Beer Season
Posted by on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 in - leave a comment
I came across an interesting article in the Kyiv Post on the coming of Ukrainian beer season: • “With summer looming and the first days of real heat expected any time now, the beer season in Kyiv can be officially considered open (though when or whether it officially closes is another matter …
Four More English Pales Ales
Posted by on Saturday, May 6, 2006 in - 2 comments
I have done a couple of sets of tastings of English pale ales before and with a guest about this is another good opportunity. Here are four more English ales: a 4.3% best bitter from Somerset to the left, then a 5.5% pale ale from East Sussex, next a 7.5% Burtonian IPA and to the right an organic …
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 …
