Sending beer through the internet tubes
Hey you guys! Out watching Goonies at Mason Jar Lager Company in Varina. Drinking their schwartzbier. Smells of toffee with chocolate in the background. Very little hop but a slight ester smell. Pours a very dark brown with a thin head. Sweet almost cloying but doesn't cross that line. Slightly roasty, but very toasty and... Continue Reading →
Reinheitsgebot! Time to get our German on! I've got pictures of a trip to Berlin from a few years ago, but considering the beer and the style both had Munich in their name, it didn't feel right using a picture of the wrong city. So I went with the most stereotypical German picture Google could... Continue Reading →
Not sure what happened to my beer count on Untappd. I lost one somewhere. Oh well, we'll just stay on #3609 forever (or until tomorrow). River Rat is an interesting brewery for us. Our kid joined the Army in 2017 and did basic training at Fort Jackson just around the corner (across town) from this... Continue Reading →
Oh geez...I've had this one; albeit two years ago. I guess that's going to happen from time to time. I originally had this at a great steakhouse in Raleigh, NC: The Angus Barn. They have great French Onion soup and they will Oscar a steak for you (crab and asparagus...so tasty). On to the beer!... Continue Reading →
One beer review a day. Starting today. Maybe. I hope. I'm going to use a variety of tools here: Untappd: http://www.untappd.com BJCP Beer Scoresheet: https://www.bjcp.org/docs/SCP_BeerScoreSheet.pdf 33 Bottles of Beer: 33books.com These first few will be a bit pedestrian as I continue to prepare for the daunting task of Certified Cicerone.
July is shot already. Got too much travel to post regularly. Going to try an August challenge of doing one beer a day. I should be able to pull that off... ...sure...
Alright, the pressures (in the background) of Cicerone prep are nagging at me. Instead of enjoying a beer a sharing it here for no one to read, I'm worried about drinking the right beers to prep. I need to take a deep breath and just get to posting regularly.
Great beer from Tallin, Estonia (picture below from a cruise we took back in 2015). Really starts off as a typical stout, but the lingering taste of grape skin and apricot make this a wonderful beer. I'm looking forward to cellaring this beer and revisiting it in a year or so.
Going to try and structure this one a bit better than my last. Pours dark brown almost black. SRM is clearly above 40. No head retention. Smell is low in both maltiness and hops. Plum is almost overpowering on the nose. Low hop flavor. Grainy malt flavor. Raisin that bleeds into brown sugar aftertaste. Very... Continue Reading →
A nice saison. Well balanced between the phenols and esters. Not a lot of herbal notes and low carbonation. A bit of doughy malt. Picture unrelated.
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