Posts Tagged: Styles
Collecting Belgians Again
Posted by on Saturday, December 10, 2005 in - leave a comment
Last year, I wrote about collecting Belgians and how you have to have a strategy for dealing with the variety and the strength. A great one is to suggest popping over to friends and sharing. At up to and over 10%, popping a large bottle ought to be a communal event. This year's line-up includes …
Big Hop Bombs: Hop Wallop Ale, Victory Brewing, PA, USA
Posted by on Monday, November 28, 2005 in - 3 comments
A quiet weekend around here as I was off in central New York state picking up some more beer to keep your insatiable appetite for my views on brews fed...or at least watered. Also quiet because I've been muttering under my breath about another digital camera that has died on me. For the short term …
Another Three Whites Or Wittes Or Wits
Posted by on Saturday, November 5, 2005 in - 3 comments
Last year I did a side by side of four wittes or wits, Belgian white beers. Here I repeat the inclusion of the elemental wit, Hoegaarden, as a benchmark for comparison with the white in the middle from Allagash, a micro from Maine focusing on Belgian beers, and Blue Moon, which is actually … read more »
8<sup><small>th</small></sup> Anniversary Ale, Stone, California, USA
Posted by on Thursday, November 3, 2005 in - leave a comment
What can you say about a beer that says so much about itself. I picked this one out of the stash, $5.99 USD last time I was south. It is a one off brew made in August 2004 from Stone of a previous standard of theirs called Lee's Mild...which makes it more of a revival than a one off. At 7.8% I am …
Pump House Scotch Ale, New Brunswick, Canada
Posted by on Monday, October 31, 2005 in - 2 comments
Pump House Brewery is located in Moncton, New Brunswick, "the hub" of the Maritime provinces. But is it the brewing hub? This remains to be seen. • While I intend to sample more of their fare, their Scotch Ale was not for me. It may well be that scotch ales in general are not for me, as this one …
Weyerbacher Brewing Company, Easton, PA, USA
Posted by on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 in - 9 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 …
