Posts Tagged: Styles
Weyerbacher Brewing Company, Easton, PA, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 in - 4 comments
I did not see their Imperial Raspberry Stout - just the Old Heathen Imperial Stout and the Imperial Pumpkin Ale. You know, this use of the old "imperial" adjective is all the rage in the US craft brewing trade. It originally meant a honking big stout and was roughly to porter what barley wine was …
India Ale, Samuel Smith Old Brewery, North Yorkshire, England
Posted by on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 in - 2 comments
...which photo sucks less...hmmm... • Somedays I can't get a good photo of a beer for love or money. I have about 30 bad shots of this fussy dark label and finally I thought - to heck with it. I can't be driven by your incessant demands for more and better beer-based photographic art. So there …
New York: Mendocino Brewing Co., Saratoga Springs
Posted by on Monday, October 17, 2005 in - 3 comments
I picked up these five a while ago from Ithaca's Finger Lake Beverage Center and I thought it was about time to put them on the reviewing stage. I have not visited the brewery which is located just to the south east of the Adirondacks about half way between the state capital of Albany and Lake …
Two New England Browns
Posted by on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 in - 1 comment
If there is one style of beer that can confuse it is brown ale. Beer, after all, is pretty much brown. There are any number of Belgian ales that can be thought of as brown but called Flemish brown or reds, quadruples or just browns. But there are also dubbles which are big and earthy and brown …
Grrreat Scots!
Posted by on Monday, September 19, 2005 in - 6 comments
Five different takes on scotch ales...three of which are even from Scotland. The two on the ends are from Smuttynose of New Hampshire, left, and Middle Ages of Syracuse, NY to the right. Who can not love a nation of ale that includes the style called heavy and know that it is not even the heaviest …
Stouts: Sinha Stout, Bygama, Sri Lanka
Posted by on Friday, September 2, 2005 in - 13 comments
Surprised I was. I pop into the government store looking for kookoo juice and what do I find? A beer I have not seen before. And from Sri Lanka as well. Excellence. I like these dark beers called foreign stouts. Last fall I reviewed another, Royal Extra Stout from Trindad, which is the same sort … read more »
Belgium: Six Lambics
Posted by on Monday, August 15, 2005 in - 14 comments
There are a few times my good wife is very pleased with this hobby. One is when there is Guinness in the house and one is when there are lambics. These historic vestiges of a Belgian need to capture summer fruit are made without added yeast...because the valley of the Senne is loaded with airborn …
Köstritzer Schwarzbier -- black lager
Posted by on Sunday, August 14, 2005 in - 17 comments
I have a flaw — or perhaps it's a virtue — in that I feel unsettled around people or things that are indecisive. Don't get me wrong — I appreciate ambiguity, especially creative ambiguity that forces one to think and interpret. But there is ambiguity, and there is indecision. • I'm not entirely …
Three Mid-Atlantic IPAs
Posted by on Saturday, August 6, 2005 in - 8 comments
Kind of an austire photo but click on it anyway. And I don't know of NY and PA are mid-Atlantic...but if not - what are they? • Anyway, I picked up a Victory Hop Devil from Downingtown in eastern Pennsylvania, Blue Point Brewing Company's Hoptical Illusion from Patchogue, Long Island and a bunch …
Quick Note: Butte Creek Organic Porter, Chico, CA
Posted by on Friday, August 5, 2005 in - leave a comment
I found this beer at Wild Oats in Portland, Maine last week. $8.99 US for a six and it comes with the "Pry Off" cap - click the photo for the details. Why twist when you can pry? • First, this is not an old school porter with the required sourness up front in the vein of, say, Grants or that …
