rogue john john ale

rogue john john ale - pale ale brewed with juniper berries and aged in spruce gin barrels

look of love - muted wheat

nosed - lemon yellow sun, musty grapefruit

in my mouth - juuuniper...a bit of xmas in the mouth...upbeat lemon and pepper...grapefruity hops.....

this is a most wonderful drink all day ale made with love and happiness..i will be drinking as much as i can find...

this beer is love...one of my tiptops!

saison dupont belgian farmhouse style ale

saison dupont - 375 ml - 6.5% abv - belgian farmhouse ale

this cork popped with a mighty sound!


a nice golden color..like sparkling cider

smell - damp cellars, apples.....pepper and lemon..

mouthwise - fresh and alive with that yummy saison funkness to it, figs, wood, a bit o honey sweetness...plenty of carbonation for those awesome live yeast belches...

i cannot wait to get to the yeasty bottom and tell you about it...

this seems young..funky but young..not all that nuanced but maybe i need to try again...

craft beer week

a week full of beers...

at hollingshead:

tall bottle rogue smoked porter

short bottle of avery dépuceleuse - barrel aged wild ale brewed with sour cherries and in zinfandel barrels, 100% brettanomyces fermentation....... (what a great beer)

on tap:

stone vertical epic 090909 x 3

russian river blind pig

stone / dogfish head / victory brewing collabo - saison du buff - brewed w parsley, sage, rosemary and of course thyme..another great beer x 4

at home with ryan on his bornday:

dogfish head red & white

ballast point victory at sea coffee vanilla imperial porter

mikkeller 1000 ibu

at the stone brewing tasting with ryan also on his bornday:


stone cali belgique
saison du buff
oaked arrogant bastard
sublimely self righteous
13th anniversary imperial red
2006 double bastard
2006 imperial russian stout
2007 imperial russian stout
2010 imperial russian stout
12th ann bitter choco oatmeal stout
2008 old guardian
2009 old guardian
2010 old guardian



and just yesterday...

port brewing third anniversary
avery fifteenth anniversary


happy craft beer week everybody!

port anniversary 4

port brewing 4th anniversary - a self proclaimed "hop monster"......10%

look - a rich orange-ish rust..

smell - orangey hops up front, a wonderful yogurt smell...if you like that kind of thing....,

taste - wow, still the yogurt....perfumed hops, calm malts and low carbonation lend a gentle mouthfeel to this one...the lack of carbonation is odd...not bad but..different....this lol...kinda tastes like keifer (look it up).....some peach to this...and floral..i would say orange blossom....

i have not had a beer this atypical in a while.....i will keep at it until i understand it..i have a few bottles..

i recommend it if you are into otherworldly ales...the hops are brave but not like a hopsickle (moyland's)..more like a hop tide (port brewing) but muted by the yogurt and orange flavors.....

avery fifteen

 

 

 

avery farmhouse ale - fifteenth anniversary - brewed with spices, herbs
and figs..hibiscus flowers, white pepper..mission figs and fermented
with 100% brettanomyces yeast.....

...
a soft gold color with always rising bubbles and small flakes of yummy
goodness rising then falling throughout....at first pour, then near the
bottom of the bottle (1pint - 6 oz) swish the remainder and you will see
a bounty of yeast sediment...which makes for an extra kick as the last
glass....



nose - sour cherries....then a softer note (that becomes more bold when
the cup is warmed by hand or otherwise) of that much loved "brett" or
"farmhouse" or "horse blanket" character....which in this particular ale
presents as wet hay, soft figs, horse piss, sawdust, a wonderful
must....a barn after a rain...



and in the mouth - tangy apple followed by musk melon then figs, and
here comes the farmhouse...soft apples....wet older hay...processed
grain....lemon pith, hardly any sweetness at all...i believe the batch
form years ago had more honey taste to it and yes....one can taste honey
but a wildflower honey with the sweetness taken out.....hmm......

 

one of my all time favorites

king cobra malt liquor - 40 oz - 6%

http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/archive/kingcobra.html

looks - 0.5 - yellow gold - i shall call it ...well..yellow gold hits it just right..

nosed - malts and sweetness up front, lemony effervescence, bright!

mouthed - tangy in the mouth, turns quickly as it warms...malty and sweet..

drink this cold and not often...

for you i drink!..to thee i imibie...!



first off i am going to drink the mickey's tall can 24 oz - malt liquor at 5.6%



a 0.9 on the aforementioned color chart, making it "amontillado sherry" color but i shall call her
frosty urine color...

nosed - sweet malts, yeasty bread....fruity like white grapes...ps: a little bit of banana on the nose as it sits...


m outh - a bit of sweetness, some bite from the carbonation...a small hint of grass...

this is nothing you would want to let get too warm, i consider it best coldcold...almost icy...but it does seem to give up flavors the warmer it gets...

http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/archive/mickeys.html

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next up we have steel brewing company steel reserve 8.1% high gravity malt liquor - 24 oz....

color - about a 0.3 pale gold....to me it looks like yellowed apple juice....

nosed - sweet and bananas, this shit is bananas, a bit of malt......

mouthy - tastes like..malt liquor......a tiny bit of skunkiness...a tiny bit of alcohol...malt enough...

this is what one thinks about when one thinks about that nasty malt liquor taste.....though this is higher in alcohol than most..

http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/archive/steelreservehg.html
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olde english 800 malt liquor - 24 oz tall can - 7.5%

http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/archive/oe800.html

color - 0.6 - old gold - i will call her comfort...

nosed - copper, clean....bit o barley....

mouth - the grain is strong with this, then the suds...carbonation and ..just a touch of the nastiness that can be malt liquor ....

drink this darling cold...





the 4 loco i will have to taste another day lest it kill me......

http://www.stonebrew.com/news/100225pr/

http://www.stonebrew.com/collab/default.asp

nose - peppery lemon, sage, rosemary...very uplifting...

mouthed: very drinkable.....rosemary and lemony hops...grapefruit...crisp...comforting...

this is one of the good ones....i will be buying a lot more of this...

't smisje

't smisje + india pale ale - brewed/bottled by de regenboog, brugge, belgium - 10%abv

this has a cloudy consistency, the color of a worn baseball glove...sediment in the bottom..when i tried to swish it with a chosptick the bottle quickly foamed up and overflowed.

nosed - yeasty white grapes, bright citrusy....

mouthed: very bright then quickly turning to hoppy bitterness with fruit in the background..this tastes like a yeasty hoppy grapefruit soda....

this is now a favorite......and i have never been too big a fan of belgians...now wait skeetor....let the man speak....i do not like my beers sweet, this one is not.......i do have my favorite belgiums (abt 12 special from st bernardus being one of them)....maybe i have just been spoiled by west coast ipa's....

i will buy this again...

this is the chart i usually use when i am eying whisky...i often though have my own super fancy color names ...