Beer geeks rejoice! Monty Python’s Holy Ail ends your quest to find what may be the world’s geekiest beer. It’s also been “tempered over burning witches”, although I’m not sure if that would improve the flavor…
(Photo credit: Holy Ail by Stuart L Ruffell on Flickr)
At least to me, this beer sounds like a terrible idea in combination of their flavors, even if the individual tastes could be quite satisfying. Has anyone else noticed a trend in strange beer combinations as of late?
Review via notyouraveragebeersnob:
Rogue’s Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale. This beer is disgusting! Over powering Smokey flavor.
Interesting review, via beeradelphia:
120 Minute IPA – Dogfish Head Brewery, Milton, DE.
ABV: 15-20% (I believe this year’s sat around 18%)
Style: Imperial IPA.
Seasonality: Rotating (once a year).
Drank: 12 oz. bottle, snifter.
Pour: Thick pour, with a hazy copper color. No head, but leaves good lacing.
Aroma: Lots of alcohol, sweet malts, and lots of citrus hops.
Taste: Sticky sweet malts, citrusy hops, and alcohol. Bready finish.
Mouthfeel: Full bodied and dry.
Unaged, this is pretty good. Very heavy, and very hot. Quite sweet, but the bitter citrus from the hops provides a nice contrast. Balanced, for as big as it is. Take a cue from the bottle, and put this one in your cellar for a year or two. Age will definitely be kind to this beer.
Your truly in a Christmas Day beercast from St. Louis, taste testing Schalfly’s Chistmas Ale! Talking about “Old Ales”, Missouri breweries, and Christmas traditions…
Over Thanksgiving weekend I traveled to my hometown of St. Louis and had the opportunity to sample a number of local beers during my visit. So I decided to record another beer review on uStream, about one of my favorite local brewers O’Fallon who brew a tasty pumpkin ale I was drinking during the recording. In the video I also go on to discuss the beer culture around St. Louis, what makes for a good pumpkin beer, and more generally about pairing beer during Thanksgiving.
Reviewing Tumbler (no, not that Tumblr) by Sierra Nevada, a seasonal Brown Ale.
via twotipsygypsies:
If you want to celebrate this beautiful season of changing leaves and crisps breezes, pop open a Sierra Nevada Tumbler. This deliciously smooth Autumn Brown Ale is definitely one you don’t want to miss this season. ”So pour a glass, and grab a window seat to watch as the leaves come tumbling down”
On Monday, Great Lakes Brewing Company and Mitchell’s Homemade Ice Cream announced an ice cream for the holiday season: Christmas Ale Ginger Snap. The new flavor will incorporate residual Christmas Ale that’s leftover from the bottling process, as well as local honey and homemade ginger snaps. Christmas Ale Ginger Snap will be released on Nov. 1 and can be found at Mitchell’s five locations in Northeast Ohio. The cinnamon-seasoned ice cream can also be purchased for dessert and in to-go pints at Great Lake Brewery.
Mitchell’s, Great Lakes Brewing Company announce Christmas Ale ice cream
(via thebusstop)
(via thebusstop)
My favorite pumpkin ale is the one pictured here, Schlafly’s Pumpkin Ale, which has a balanced amont of cinnamon and nutmug, and a malty charecter to its taste.
via weatherbird:
The great pumpkin • Beer guy Evan Benn rates this year’s crop of pumpkin beers, on a scale of one to four jack-o’-lanterns. The local contenders: Schlafly Pumpkin Ale (seen above), Kirkwood Station Pumpkin Ale, Ferguson Pumpkin Ale and O’Fallon Pumpkin Beer.
Bonus: Evan’s picks o’ the week include Perennial Artisan Ales’ Hommel Bier. It just so happens that my next meetup will be Oct. 6 at Perennial Artisan Ales — stop by and see if he’s right about Hommel.
Looks like the perfect opportunity to bring cans on your train ride; maybe this is what Brooklyn Brewery had in mind when they introduced cans for their Summer Ale
Follow ohhleary (also the editor behind BrewYorkNY) for the best of beer culture around the Tri-state metro, with a healthy dash of humor and in convenient Tumblr format:
12:40: somewhere between Hudson and Albany, I crack open my craft beer stash, and the ride suddenly gets a lot better.
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