Beer: Bar Harbor Blueberry Ale Brewer: Atlantic Brewing Link: http://www.atlanticbrewing.com/beer.html Taste: Ale flavour. A little bitterness. And an aftertaste (afterhint?) of blueberry. If I didn’t know it was blueberry, it would have just been a little bitter, and have an aftertaste. Knowing what it was I could identify it and appreciate it. Colour: Amber. Definitely [...]
Beer: Peg Leg Brewer: Clipper City Link: http://www.clippercitybeer.com/home/beers_heavyseas.htm Taste: It’s an Imperial Stout. Dark tasting. Heavy, heady. Happy bitter. Chocolate & Caramel hints Colour: Dark. Black, even. Stout. Likeability: Very good. Not incredibly impressive or distinctive, but still very good. IBU: 25
Beer: Merry Monks Brewer: Weyerbacher Link: http://www.weyerbacher.com/cwo.php?id=7&page_id=17 Taste: Bitter. Sour. Evil. Very sharp. I think it’s probably the yeast and sugar the site lists that are added just before bottling. Apparently it’s like wine and it becomes dry as it ages. WTF? Colour: There’s a reason I have a rule against really light beers. This [...]
Beer: Old Skratch Brewer: Flying Dog Link: http://www.flyingdogales.com/beer-old-scratch.asp Taste: Unmemorable. Unfortunately, I drank this about a week ago. I have no recollection of it, really. As I recall, it tasted like a lager rather than an ale. Colour: Lite Amber. It’s not quite as dark as most ambers, but still amber-y Likeability: Very mediocre. Unimpressive, [...]
Beer: Dragon’s Gold Brewer: Bards Tale Beer Link: http://www.bardsbeer.com/ Taste: Tastes like an amber, but with a bit of a smoother flavor. And not red, more yellow. It’s Ciliac Sprue friendly. It’s a gluten-free beer! Made from sourghum. Color: Yellow. Not to say ‘gold’, even Likeability: I liked it. Definitely something I wouldn’t mind picking [...]
So Last night we decided to run up to the farmers market (it’s in the library parking lot on thursdays). We picked up fresh basil, some cherry tomatoes, honey and jam. 20$ Then i decided i’d make fresh pesto sauce. Except we didn’t have any garlic. So we thought about bruschetta. Except we didn’t have [...]
Name: Berry Weiss Brewer: Leinenkugel Link: http://www.leinie.com/berry_weiss.html Taste: Blackberry. And it’s not a subtle taste. I like blackberry jam. I’ll even eat blackberries. But beer? It might work if the blackberry were a complement flavour, something in the background to give some depth and body. But as the primary ingredient? All I could taste was [...]
Name: Black Hawk Stout Brewer: Mendocino Brewing Link: http://www.mendobrew.com/brews/black_hawk.html Taste: Fairly bland. Don’t get me wrong, it was decent, but it was your generic stout. Colour: Dark. Stout-y. Likeability: If it’s what’s on offer, I’ll drink it. But I’m not going to go out of my way to look for it. Generic enough, I wouldn’t [...]
Name: Red Sky at Night Brewer: Clipper City Brewing Link: http://www.clippercitybeer.com/ Taste: Decent. A bit of bitter, and it definitely TASTED “red”. Interesting factoid: I hear, smell, taste things as colors sometimes! I had this beer a couple days ago, so the taste is vague in my memory. It was, I suppose, immemorable. Not a [...]
Name: Dead Guy Ale Brewer: Rogue Link: http://www.rogue.com Flavour: I want to call it a dark caramel. Funny thing about “tastes” in things like this — without a common point of reference, it’s meaningless I don’t even know what “Dark Caramel” would be! But the beer tasted somewhat caramelly, but with a bit of a [...]