Skull Crushing Ape-Devils Backbone Brewing
The marketing department earns their salaries again .
I'm not sure I've ever had this style of beer, a schwarz-weizen doppelbock. This was another shared 12 ounce bottle with the previously posted menu tonight. Pour was a dark brown (not black for you German scholars) with a tan, creamy head. This really tasted like an orange/dark chocolate/caramel dipped banana that had been passed very briefly through a smoke house. It's a lager, so despite its name/appearance, it was rather light on the palate with minimal bitterness at 20 IBUs and a hefty 8% ABV, making another nice pairing with our feast this evening. I think this was $9-10 for the 6er a couple weeks ago with my buck off Total Wine coupon. I gave a couple to family members so I'll still have a couple traders this weekend at the Devil-Deac game.
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Here Gose Nothin'-Destihl Brewing
Their Flanders Red is more sour but this one has quite a pucker, too. Pour was a straw color with a lot of fizz that lingered a few seconds, leaving a mildly "hand-harvested French grey sea salt"-y, spicy, Warhead-like lemon-lime concentrate in my pint glass from this 12 ounce can. IBUs a bit high for the style at 12 () and the ABV is 5%. Not sure what I'd pair this with, maybe some lump crabcakes and slaw or a sweet and sour Chinese entree. Definitely takes some adjustments on the tastebuds to drink this. I think it was $8-9 with my buck off Total Wine coupon this afternoon.
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"Amazing what a minute can do."
Nice find. That was a June, 2013 post and I hadn't thought about that ale for 3 years until I saw it on the Total Wine shelf over this weekend and made some other selections instead, including a NB/DeKonnick collabeeration 4 pack. Now I'm going to have to ponder buying the WW beverage.
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Done. Again.
Rodenbach-Brouweriij Rodenbach (or something like that)
Now owned by Palm Brewery.
The classic (original?) Belgian red/brown/sour ale, brewed since 1821. Poured from a $2.69 330 ml bottle (dated 9/24/16 so we "enjoyed by" the suggested date) and divided into 2 "cocktail" glasses with our son last PM, along with the Destihl as threatened, err, promised last month. The Rodenbach is a blend of old/aged on oak ale and young/un-aged ale in a 25%/75% fashion. Color was a mildly murky, reddish-brown with next to no head. Aromas were red wine, vinegar and tart cherries with tastes of the same, smoothed a bit with some oaky/woody flavors. Their website states the pH at 3.4 (I've never seen beer pH measurements before ) but no IBUs so I'll guess 20 as it was more sour and winey than bitter. ABV is 5.2%. Tough to figure out a pairing with this. Mussels are the obvious recommendation here but I don't like them, so I'll go with sauerbraten or shrimp diavolo.
Now, the comparison. As expected, fuse was on the money as I expected with the Destihl being significantly more sour (there is no sourness scale for comparisons that I'm aware of like the AA/Lovibond/SRM/IBU/ABV numbers) than the Rodenbach which almost seemed tame with its oaky/winey characteristics vs the very tart cherry/Sour Patch/Warheads type sour of the Destihl.
I've got one can of the Destihl left and would be happy to trade at tailgate but, if I have no takers, I'll likely try to pair it some night with a mixed green salad with bleu cheese crumbles, lots of berries, candied pecans, craisins and a raspberry balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
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Do we need to start a Ymm, Soap thread?
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/bus...100156332.html
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http://www.citizen-times.com/story/n...view/89919048/
Make that 10 new Asheville breweries.
I remembered you had posted about Raleigh Brewery and soaps but guess I got a bit lazy about the search feature. Sorry.
We have an almost non-beer drinker in our tailgate crowd so when we sample something like Creme Brulee or Blushing Monk, we'll always have her olfactory lobe evaluate our pours and whether they'd make a good candle scent or not. And, to her great credit, she has sampled some dark, dark aromatic porters and stouts and some fruit beers and has posted favorably about them and that's not just crazietalk.
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From 10/25/14 (for comparison purposes-see next post in about 30 minutes):
Liquid Bliss-Terrapin Beer Company
This is the second chocolate peanut butter porter I've tasted with the first being from DuClaw brewing. The pour was dark brown with a small, tan head that lingered for a bit. Not surprisingly, the nose was Jif (or Skippy or Peter Pan), Hershey's with a wafting of Starbucks (or Caribou). Tastes were nutty, chocolate-y and coffee-like, the latter of which is fairly typical for a porter. Best served slightly chilled in a pint glass, with or without a chocolate chip cookie. IBUs listed at 23 and the ABV was 6.1%. Hey, Chuck, here are the ingredients from their web site:
Hops: US Golding
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Wheat, Crystal 85, Crystal 120, Chocolate Wheat, Chocolate Malt, Black Malt
Other: Peanut Butter, Boiled GA Peanuts, Olive & Sinclair Cocoa Nibs
This was their Side Project volume 18. What else might you expect from a Georgia brewery beside this and some variation of a peach ale? Cool label, too.
http://terrapinbeer.com/wp-content/u...-S-300x300.jpg
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The only good terrapin is a :
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For Pete's Sake-DuClaw Brewing
An imperial version of this (from 12/3/13):
Sweet Baby Jesus-DuClaw Brewing
Quite the name (though I'd have probably picked another) for this chocolate peanut butter porter. A shout out to fuse for his selection of this as one of his traders last month. It poured a dark, dark brown with a thick, foamy head. Aroma and tastes were Reese's peanut butter cups with a trace of espresso. Six grains and two hop varieties weigh in at an ABV of 6.5% and IBU of 53, both a bit high for the style but very pleasant. Dessert beer all the way. This is worth a 4 pack or 6er to do some bartering as I'm not sure I could drink more than a couple of these during the fall/winter seasons but definitely worth tasting.
A bit more viscous with a dramatically smaller head, a few less IBUs (a tad surprising but really not perceptible) at 45 and a lot more booze at 9% ABV. Serve up with a few dark chocolate covered raisins, some caramel-drizzled brownies or in a snifter by itself for a liquid dessert.
Shout out to August West for this as a trader last Saturday.
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You know the evolution of beer distribution and variety in America over the last 6 years has been great. 6 years ago if I wanted beer and went into a gas station all I would find was your generic horse piss, Yuengling or if you were lucky and had a nice gas station you could grab Sam Adams. Now it doesn't seem to matter which gas station I go to but I always have at least 1 option that isn't terrible and many have excellent options.
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge" -Stephen Hawking
Can I be blunt?
Oskar Blues Pinner straight from the can tonight.
Go Panthers.
Keep Pounding!