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Most bars and pubs in my area are now carrying Union Jack IPA. God bless them
Maybe now is the time to consider another Cyburbia beer exchange?
Not too impressed with the Mikkeller All Others Pale, despite the hype all of his beers receive. It had the short-lasting, almost pop-like head of an amateur homebrew. It also tasted a bit homebrewish; franted, a very good homebrew, but a homebrew nonetheless. 8/10 for taste, but 6/10 overall.
The brewer loves American craft beers, and looks to them for inspiration, so I'll try another sometime. There's quite a few available at the local beer store.
Right now I have the Brother Thelonious and the Blue Star from North Coast. Overall, I've been very happy with their selection.
Kelpie Seaweed Ale .
I drank a beer last night called 'Miller High Life'.
It was fairly unremarkable and tasted a lot like Coors, Budweiser, Pabst, Strohs, and several other beers I have sampled. Very light bodied and a low alcohol content. The flavor of adjuncts (corn or rice maybe) was evident. Good head retention, though.
You have no shame!
In Erie and Niagara counties, empty counter space at 12 Sunoco APlus stores was retrofitted with beer taps and Kegerators, allowing the convenience stores to fill and sell glass "growler" containers with small-batch draft beer on the premises.
7. Milwaukee's Best Light
5. Old Milwaukee
4. Milwaukee's Best
3. Bud Select
2. Michelob Light
I had a bottle of Green Flash West Coast IPA this weekend. Probably just about my favorite beer. The 4-pack box label says: "A menagerie of hops is layered throughout the brewing process; Simcoe for unique fruitiness and grapefruit zest, Columbus for strong hop pungency, Centennial for pine and citrus notes and cascade for floral aroma. A multi-dimensional hop experience."
Quite hoppy but not ultra bitter. Just a nice full spectrum of hop flavors and scents.
I would say Dick's IPA is probably the bitterist beer I've tasted: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1345/14783/?view=beer&sort=&start=10interesting analysis. I too enjoy this beer but I have always found it to be extremely bitter (in a good way).
I am not sure if someone posted this before, but a local (and newer) microbrewery here in GR opened up and they don’t bottle their beer… they can it. The idea seems so foreign to me mainly because I have always been a bottle beer drinker and enough of a beer snob that I would drink water over many kinds of light beers often served in a can (think Bush Light)…
But there is discussion about the UV rays causing bottle beer to go bad and that canned beer is cheaper to ship and less likely to break. There is also the argument that it maintains temperature better… or so I am told.
But does it result in a better beer? The beer is good out of the tap, but I have not been able to bring myself to buy a 4-pack… Partly because of the price, partly because it’s in a can!
What are your thoughts on the bottle vs. can debate?
More and more you'll see canned micro-brewed beer it the nongrocery store places. Part of it is its easier to take camping than bottles, or to the pool - but I bet price of canning is cheaper. Next time I head to Total Wine & Beer, I'll get a list or pic.
I've had Dale's Pale & Old Chub in cans and its good.
At lunchtime I discovered a local establishment that has North Coast Brewery beers on tap.
On an unrelated note... At lunchtime I discovered that Brother Thelonius Belgian Style Abbey Ale is not a lunchtime beer.
Anyone been following the story on Billy Busch and the beer ("Kraftig")he hopes to compete with the macros?
I'm kind of on the fence about this; on the one hand I like to see the macros get challenged any way they can, but otoh if it's just going to be another macro-style brew that's really not an improvement in the state of American beer, is it?
Not easy to find in this neck of the woods, but if you can get Bells HopSlam, buy it, drink it, enjoy it.
Our local brewpub got one keg of it and was tapped at 4:30 and lasted until 7:00 (they also have 26 other taps). Kinda expensive at $6.50 a pint, but well worth it. It was like a strong IPA, but not over the top hoppy.
You Michiganders ought to be able to get it without too much problems.
If interested in a trade, let me know. I'm already sending out one six-pack to a friend either tomorrow or Saturday. I'm not the biggest fan, and have yet to crack the ones I bought for myself, but I've heard from a few folks that this year's supply is better tasting than recent years.