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Wow! Malty!
And that is my review. Goodnight!
Nah, just kidding! I'll add this: This beer is so good that I decided to cook with it! I'm doing an omelet with spinach and a chicken jamaican jerk sausage and decided to fry the sausage with the beer! Love glazing beer onto sausage! And man, this beer makes one hell of a glaze in the frying pan. OMG Beer candy!
OK, this is the second time that I have tried this beer and I am so glad that I revisited it! Of course the huge bottle is to my liking! (less bottles to cap when brewing)
It pours, you smell her sweet abundance, you make a double take like there are pheromones in this beer. She is delicious! You drink her in. You have to. There is no turning back. She will treat you with respect in the morning, but she is going to make a whore out of you tonight! She is going to make you want to come back for more. Not because you weren't satisfied, but because she is so sweet and has a huge malty back end! You know you like those big dark malty backsides. Don't deny it!
Her color is somewhere between dark caramel and milk chocolate and her complexion is as clear as the wind in an Alberta Clipper.
And she wears only the finest delicate lace against her full figured dark caramel body. Oh Black Betty!
She's not bitter, NO! You purchased her, but she's not bitter at all! In fact, I bet she likes the noblest of hops! She could never leave a bad taste in your mouth!
I give her a 9 ONLY because I like my dark girls more sultry and not overly sweet!
OK, the omelet. Well this is it in the process of being an omelet. The engredients are:
3/4 Dietz and Watson Chicken Jamaican Jerk sausage browned and then glazed with 3 tbsp Baltic Porter on both sides.
Add 1/4 cup frozen spinach to the fry pan, fry 3 minutes on medium
Add 1/4 cup smoked gouda cheese, fry 5 minutes medium
Add 1 cup egg whites and 2tbsp Baltic porter (either to a different pan or clean this pan first, it will stick and not flip over well)
Brown to your liking, serve.
This turned out really really well. All the engriedients seem to be at odds with each other if tasted separately but when combined all together, the smoke from the gouda, the beer, and the sausage (even though jamaican jerk) all congeal into a fantastic omelet!
Happy Saturday! Be kind to your dark lovely tonight!
-Fish
Here folks is another gem from the 24 Beers of Christmas case that Scoats put together for us.
It's called Saranac Big Moose ale and the bottle describes it as an ale that is dry hopped with 3 different hops, amarillo, centennial and cascade. Initially after reading that I thought that I wasn't going to jive with this beer, but again, I was wrong. This is an excellent beer!
The bottle I can reuse...SCORE!
What can I say, this is a very IPA like beer called an American Pale Ale. The color was coppery to light coppery and when poured into my room temp mug it almost foamed over but quickly subsided to a nice uniform thin head that laces nice on the side of the glass.
I find the hop aroma nice, light and citrusy and tastes quite the same as that first in your mouth, then slight bitter balanced with very light malt sweetness and finally ending quite peppery with a bit of smoke and dryness. I haven't seen any reviews that mention the peppery smokey flavor at the end but it covers my tongue to where it feels very very slightly numb. It's kind of cool!
It seems to me to be light bodied with a light to medium mouthfeel (slightly watery) but I'm not complaining because it keeps it refreshing to me.
Now on my scale, I would rate this an 8 out of ten. As a judge, the rating may be different to meet criteria, but I like this beer. The peppery aftertaste is really cool! I can see cutting points for mouthfeel. It's very nice and I totally would seek this beer out again!
Thanks goes out to Scoats for including this one in the case! I can't wait to see how this one cellars for next year!
Hey all, have a great weekend and I look forward to sharing my next beer with you!
Prost!
-Fish (as in drink like a...)
This is quite possibly my favorite beer along with Morimoto Hazelnut Brown. That being drastically nuttier than this and a different palate.
I'd love to see Sam Smith's fermenters which is on my bucket list. It must be a pain in the azz to clean a square slate fermenter, but damn!, it pays off in the end with this beer!
Browns are my favorite and this beer reminds me of why. Some come off too bitter, too dry, too sweet or too high in alcohol. I think this is the perfect balance of all of those. When you pour it from the bottle against the glass a perfectly nutty, malty, caramel aroma escapes toward your nose. Of course my nose is all up in it dying to get some of that heaven to my brain.
I love the bottle. Huge and reuseable!
With light behind the glass the beer is dark and coppery with a thin head that does leave trails on the glass from gulp to gulp. This beer I gulp. It's not a beer to session with, but I WILL drink this all night, hopefully remembering to have a glass of water in between each to stave of a stupendous hangover because I could put 6 down easy. The head remains throughout the drink.
And yes, the drink. The drink is perfectly mildly hoppy with a creamy, malty, mildly carbonated mouthfeel that tastes exactly as it smells. The finish is probably Kent Goldings and just WOW! I'm not sure what the ABV (alcohol content) is, but it's not slacker. It's most likely 6.5 or better but it's not apparent in the taste. I served it cold, but it is fine cold or at 50. It's at 50 now and sooooo pleasant. This is truly a pleasure to drink.
I have actually seen this beer on an episode of "All Creature's Great and Small" which was filmed in the 70's about a farm veternarian (James Herriot) in 1930's Yorkshire, England. That was a pretty cool sighting! Netflix has since taken that series off of streaming (I effing hate Netflix, they are so cheesey with that sh!t). Only shite shows are streaming and if the good ones are they only have half of the season or some BS like that. What a scam.
I digress, effects of my favorite beer in the world! It definitely gets a 10! (I'm going to have to learn how to truly score a beer soon)
Hey, you have a great night and try to get yourself out to FKD Ave. and Knights Road to the Craft Beer Outlet. I went and spent a good bit o' cash tonight there (not nearly enough) and got almost a month's haul of brews for the blog. I got 3 from Weyerbacher, which I haven't tried yet and am champing at the bit to give them a go!
Shaka!
-Fish
Words almost cannot describe this beer, well, yes they can. It's not super complex of a beer, maybe the amount of different hops might be complex, but this is one hell of a straightforward IPA.
Awesome reusable bottle. Points there for homebrewing! Attractive too!
The beer pours nice and has a beautiful clear coppery colour. There was sediment so I'm not sure if this is bottle conditioned or not. The head is a perfect 1/4 inch on the pour and stays 1/8th throughout drinking with definite lacing on the glass. It's quite perfect!
While drinking you definitely get hops right up front and it has a great feel in the mouth. Malts come through after the hops (which are soooooo fresh tasting) and mellow the flavour a bit, but it is mostly a hoppy beer like an IPA is supposed to be.
I'm getting a warm feeling from the alcohol but it is not noticeable on the tongue. The medium carbonation may add to that a bit.
I freaking love this beer! I'm not an IPA fan and would not drink them all night if given the opportunity to mix it up, but this beer would change that. What I don't like most about IPA's is the dry, bitter aftertaste but this beer leaves me with a sweet bitter aftertaste that is nothing but pleasant.
Yet this is another 10 chosen by Scoats for the 24 Beers of Christmas case that he put together for us this fall. Cheers on this choice Scoats because this may just very well be my favourite IPA so far!
If you all can get your hands on this beer, give it a try! I can't wait to see what it tastes like next year after I cellar it!
Have a great night everyone!
Slainte!
-Fish
OMFG! Yup!
So from what I understand, this beer is a golden ale with the addition of Frankincense and Myrrh and being so close to the Epiphany (twelfth day of Christmas) not a bad time to drink it.
Tonight was the Lucky 13 Homebrew club meeting and we gained some good ground on community oriented ideas and moving the club forward while we had a few pints at the Grey Lodge. I started the night off with a Gift of the Magii and man was it a great way to start off the night!
I have got to tell you that I haven't had anything like this before and it was quite enjoyable. It poured an opaque coppery colour with large bubbles at first and then the head settled nicely.
I scribbled some notes in my wee composition book:
Dark copper colour
Big bubbles
Hoppy up front converges immediately with a sweet hoppiness
It is definitely weird and exciting. LOL sounds a bit fruity I know, but I was surprised by how the hop bitterness flavour instantly turns into the frankincense-myrrh sweetness and then turns back into a light delicious hop finish. I haven't experienced that before and I totally dug it. I want more!
It's not a winter warmer style, but #f@ckyeahlostabbey#
It gets a total ten for what it is.
Cheers!
-Fish
Dark Brewed. Does that mean they brewed it with the lights off?
Hi everyone. Tonight I chose to drink a Yuengling Porter that my cousin donated to the cause and since I have had a few different porters lately I figured that it would be good to taste one while all those flavours were fresh in my mind.
The bottle, albeit brown, fails the homebrew test as it is a screwtop. Drats! For a few days since my last Yuengling tasting I have been pondering why they and others use green or even clear bottles and other than desiring the flavor that that glass imparts or that it may be traditional, I can see no logical reason for any brewer to use those bottles. I do, however, use them basically because they are there and they are free...
The beer has good color. It has been a while since I've had it so I was expecting a light hue, but no, it's fine. The bubbles were larger but the small ones continue to linger around the edge of the beer with a wee bit of lacing. Very light brown color to the bubbles.
The aroma is sweetly malty and, as one fella states on Beer Advocate, overcooked grains. I might even take it further and say those grains smell slightly corn like.
The taste is simple. What Chocolate or roasted malts that they used to achieve the fantastic colour really don't come out in flavor. Only slightly so. It is almost watery in body and sweet. I'm picking up only a very slight roasty note much later on. I am not able to pick out any obvious hops. If I was a homebrewer I would think that I got a medium starch to sugar conversion and I added too much corn sugar to the bottles.
This porter is almost thirst quenching! I suppose that is not a particularly good trait in a porter, but it is quite drinkable and an excellent transition beer for someone wanting to move away from the big 3 and start in the craft realm and in that respect it is commendable.
I give it a 7 out of 10 for all my different whacky reasons. ha ha ha
It's mild and enjoyable but if you are expecting to be "wowed" by complexities then this is not that beer. It is, however, in my price range and will be drunk in this household (if someone buys it for me!). Have a great night everyone, thanks for reading!
-Fish (as in drink like a-)
Ok tonights craft beer critique is coming to you after the fact, once again. Which will probably be the norm on the weekends. Being that I have already drank them and they are not in front of me, this is a lame deal, but it is good for me to recall what I thought of them. Maybe one day I will look into using the new app Untappd on my fone so I can truly remember them.
Atwater Vanilla Java Porter, well, I almost wet myself with this one. Yes Alina, it looked like a milkshake! Hell, it almost tasted like one! On draft in a nice pint glass the aroma of vanilla soothes your nose almost right away. For it's dark colour, it's actually mild on the palate. Perhaps that is a function of the vanilla. Orgasmic flavour! Seriously, this is a TEN! There was nothing about this beer that I disliked except that it was over too soon! Perfect!
I was at a place called Twisted Tale to drink this lovely. It's a nice place! Very nice! The staff are incredibly friendly and they gave me an "industry discount" because I am an aspiring brewer AND blogging about the beer so I will give them a shout out! I really do like that place! It's close to where I work on board Gazela and Jupiter too so I will probably be there again!
Next is a gluten free beer from Spain called Estrella Damm Daura. I am not sure what the name means as I was having a blast with a new friend and didn't want to geek out on reading into the label so I am not sure what the base is, but I am guessing mostly sorghum BUT they have managed to make this smell like a Moosehead or Heinekin and taste like a Stella Artois, which is pretty different than most sorghum based beers that I have had. It had only the slightest hint of tasting like cider so it is up there as one that actually tastes like beer! It was clear and refreshing and I drank like 3 of them without being VERY tired of the sorghum flavor. For a gluten free beer this is definitely a TEN as I can also reuse the bottles for homebrew!
My nose didn't stuff up from drinking Estrella like most beer makes me do after the first one, so it's high on the list! It may even be better than DFH Tweason Ale! Sorry Sam.
Have a great night everyone!
-Fish
