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Well, it’s in the bottles. And it’s pretty damn good. Granted I tasted it flat and somewhat lukewarm, but it’s got a great balance between chocolate sweetness and lavender herbalness. The chocolate plays off the roasted malt, and the lavender off the hops. Carbonation and more time in the fridge should definitely help this become [...]
This is a really nice beer. The color is a really beautiful, clear amber/red, with a very minimal, thin white head. Putting your nose in the glass gives away the 10% ABV immediately – the smell of alcohol is strong in ths one. Tasting is it a similar story. There’s a really nice, somewhat chewy [...]
I must say, I was very excited by this beer. A certified organic old ale at 9.7% – sounds great. Not too expensive, either. I have to say, though, it’s pretty disappointing. There’s some malt flavor there, and then a big gob of bitterness. Not the kind of hop bitterness that can be described as [...]
The HeBrew Jewbilation beers have always struck me as creative despite their strict rules: 1 ABV % point, 1 grain and 1 hop variety per year celebrated. It sort of seems similar to what KFB did with Excelsior! (née Manbearpig), except…different. Where we had no idea what our blend of however many different kinds of [...]
Granted, these may not happen for quite some time because of a certain recent purchase, but they’re beers I’ve been wanting to do for a while. And I’m gon’ do ‘em, damnit.
First, and the longest in the pipeline, is 77X42 (tentative name), an IPA, possibly DIPA, with tamarind, ginger and lemongrass. Initially the plan [...]
Two nights ago, William and I dove into 4 of the 5 Kungfu Bicycle brews, some of them the last extant sample. The only we left out, somewhat disappointingly, was batch 0001, “West Coast Pale Ale.” Sure, it’s a generic recipe from HomeBrewMart, and it wasn’t exactly amazing when we tasted it in August of [...]
ABV: 17.5%, apparently.
There’s something fascinating about things as old as this. Granted it’s not a centuries-old bottle of wine or a 60-year Macallan. But this is a 14-year old beer, which is the oldest I’ve seen readily available and certainly the oldest I’ve consumed. This beer was brewed when I was [...]
Good God, finally another tick in the “plus” column for the past few weeks. Those have been few and far between.
Anyway. Lagunitas Brown Shugga is finally back. Undoubtedly one of my favorite beers. A heavenly brown color and thick texture, a fabulous mix of barleywine bitterness with a rich, mellow sweetness, and of course [...]
Redhook Double Black Stout with Coffee (Limited Release)
ABV: 7.0%
IBU: 47
Pours a full, dark black with a foamy caramel-colored head. Heavy malt profile, with the fairly standard array of stout flavors: chocolate, toffee, coffee (made all the more intense as a result of coffee being added to the [...]
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