This 750 mL bottle was from the late 2008 or early 2009 bottling. It was corked and capped; now Upland lambics are corked and caged like a champagne bottle. The first pour was beautiful – crystal clear and the color of honey with ruby highlights. No lacing in the glass but lots of bubbles rose [...]
Archive | March, 2012
Coming Soon from New Albanian
David Pierce of New Albanian Brewing Co. sent me a note earlier about their new beer, a Blue Agave Nectar Spiced Ale. Wha? Sounds interesting for sure. Due out April 18th. The label (which is beautiful, of course) says this fine beer uses Belgian yeast and Saison spicing; black pepper and blue agave and lemongrass. [...]
BBC Bourbon Barrel Stout
I am staying home and not braving the crowds of drunken bros drinking green swill this St Patrick’s Day. I wanted something dark and stormy to go with the weather tonight. I remembered the Bluegrass Brewing Company Bourbon Barrel Stout I had in the fridge. Perfect. It’s one of the standard issues that BBC puts [...]
Semantics, Dialectics and Devilry
You know it’s going to be a rough day when there hasn’t even been enough time to make coffee, and you’ve already seen a note like this one at Beerpulse: Anheuser-Busch’s answer to Leinie’s Summer Shandy has arrived in some markets. Meet Shock Top Lemon Shandy. … and of course, after reading words like these, [...]
A 3-Way with Bigfoot
When I think of the word ‘vertical’, two things come to mind. The first and most obvious is Michael Jordan. The second, and most awkward is Olivia Newton John. Now I don’t have an 80′s spandex workout gear crush on Olivia (I actually despise the movie Grease and cringe when that song comes on at weddings), [...]
Cumberland Brews IPA
Recently I picked up a growler of Cumberland Brews current IPA made with Citra and Cascade hops. My favorite style of beer is IPA and I was excited to try their new offering. This one is 7.25 ABV and an IBU of 68. The body was a hazy blunted orange color with a dirty white [...]
Founders Better Half
My cell phone sits in my left hand, torn and battered like a prize fighters punching bag. In my right, a wireless mouse scanning across Beernews.org looking for any updates. A quick text lights up my phone saying three simple words, “Old Town Now”. The beer has arrived, luckily, with a little less fanaticism than [...]
Great Crescent Brewery Coconut Porter
This beer is from a small Indiana brewery in Aurora, west of Cincinnati. I am a sucker for canned craft beer and Great Crescent packages their beer in 4 packs of 16 oz cans. The porter has the darkest of brown bodies with a rich tan, irregular head. The foam faded to nothing fairly [...]
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