Posts Tagged: Styles
Four Perfectly Good US Wheats For A Hot Day
Posted by on Monday, July 17, 2006 in - 1 comment
Here I am back from a week and a half roaming New England and eastern New York State and I have been struck how this is the year of wheat - everyone is brewing a wheat beer and calling it that or "summer ale" or some such thing. Time was a summer ale was just a crappy light beer. Now it means …
Quick Note: Ten Years Alt, Victory, PA, USA
Posted by on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 in - leave a comment
Holy product placement, Batman. • I picked this up at Finger Lake Beverages the other weekend and didn't twig to this being a special release by Victory as it was not in the 22 oz bottle that usually screams special release. Here is the Victory press release which provides the facts on the style …
Three Lagers, Two Pilsners
Posted by on Sunday, June 25, 2006 in - 4 comments
As you know, I am not a lager lover. But since asking the question of myself about pilsner, like Donavan, I have been wondering more about this half of the beer world and particularly this style so I picked up two more to consider as well as another lager I should trust as a comparator … read more »
Thousand Islands Pale Ale, Sackets Harbor Brewing, NY
Posted by on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 in - 7 comments
There are not too many beer brandings I like as much as this. But I am a big fan of this place, the Antique Boat Museum at Clayton, NY, and also like the Kodachrome kitch as much as the next resident of the St. Lawrence valley. Mind you if the beer was hopeless I'd lack that warm fuzzy feeling I …
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 …
