Posts Tagged: Styles
Blending Beer
Posted by on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 in - 26 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 - 9 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 …
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 …
