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New Beer Blog Sea Dog India Pale Ale

In this beer blog, we are going to get into a beer I received from my Beer Of The Month. The brewery and the beer is called Sea Dog Brewery India Pale Ale. Sea Dog Brewery was founded in 1992 in the State of Maine. The brewery was named after a dog called Barney, which is no longer with the brewery. They brew several different beer styles and have several location around the Portland, Maine area. Let us get into the beer.

It has a deep copper color with a semi white head on the beer. The smell is a citrus to a little malty to this India Pale Ale. The taste of this full body beer is a carbonation citrus with a sweet dry aftertaste. It is a pretty drinkable IPA.

Here is a description from their website (www.seadogbrewing.com):

OLD EAST INDIA PALE ALE

Fashioned after the famous ales from Burton-On-Trent which took on such bold character after surviving the long, rolling voyage from London to Calcutta in the days of the Empire. This is an amber-colored masterpiece in the world of beer styles.

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.seadogbrewing.com

Twitter: @seadogbrewing

In closing, there is not too many good English style India Pale Ales on the market. I know this brewery is in the Chicago Market but I never see their India Pale Ale. It is pretty balance and well hopped. I have to say I love the story and history of this brewery. It is a really cool story. I wish I could find more of their beer in the Chicago market. If you are a hophead like me, I recommend you trying this beer and let me know what you think of it. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

New Beer Blog Heavy Seas Brewing Gold Ale

In this beer blog, here is another beer from Heavy Seas Brewing and the beer is called Gold Ale. This is another brew from my Beer of the Month. If you read my earlier blog on their flagship beer while I was in Washington DC, you know the history of this brewery. If you have not, please, read that beer blog post. Let us get into the beer.

This gold ale is what it is a golden color without a head on the beer. The smell is very fade and hard to smell. The taste is a sweet carbonation malty with a small touch of hops. It is not overly hopped. The aftertaste is a dry earthly to a little malty. It is pretty drinkable beer.

Here is a description from the beer bottle:

American gold ale with floral hop aroma. Well rounded, fruity, and complex.

Here is a description from their website (www.hsbeer.com):

Gold

Year Round

This easy-drinking session beer pours a deep golden color. It smells slightly floral and herbal, thanks to a hopback full of Cascade and Centennial hops. Gold is tasty and refreshing, with a round mouthfeel. In 2010, it took awards at both the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup.

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.hsbeer.com

Twitter: @heavyseasbeer

Closing, I am not a fan of most of these gold ales or golden ales. I went with a positive attitude to give this beer a chances. The one thing that I love about this beer it is a session beer. Sometimes you need to drink some of these beers to give you a break from the over hop to heavy stout and porters. However, this gold ale gives you some hop finish to keep the hophead happy, I recommend you trying this beer. If you are an experience craft beer or just an American lager drinker, this beer will give you a different pace as an experience beer drinker or set you on the road to drinking more craft beer. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

New Beer Blog New Glarus Brewing Two Women

In this beer blog, we are going to sample another beer from New Glarus Brewing Company. The beer called Two Women Lager. If you read my earlier beer blog on their beers, you know the history of this brewery. If you have not, please, read that beer blog post to get know this brewery. Let us get into the beer.

This lager has a beautiful copper color without a head on it. There is a lager malt smell to the beer. The taste is a carbonation malty with lager finish to light hoppy aftertaste. This is a pretty drinkable beer.

Here is a description from the beer bottle and their website (www.newglarusbrewing.com):

Four thousand years before Christ, Sumerian women created the divine drink of beer. Viking women brewed in Norse society. European Ale Wives were so successful as cottage brewers they were taxed. Artisanal women lost their domination of the daily ritual of brewing during the Industrial Revolution. Today’s brewing trade is controlled by men.

The collaboration of two Craft companies both led by women, New Glarus Brewing and Weyermann Malting, is unique. You hold the result “Two Women” a Classic Country Lager brewed with Weyermann’s floor malted Bohemian malt and Hallertau Mittelfrueh hops. A tempting and graceful classic lager found…Only in Wisconsin!

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.newglarusbrewing.com

Twitter: @newglarusbeer

Ending, I am not a huge fan of craft lagers. This is a pretty balance and drinkable beer. I was pretty impressed and I am glad I had a chance to try this beer. This is a pretty good craft lager. I will have it once and move on to the next beer. If you are a lager fan or craft lager fan, this is a beer you will need to try. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

New Beer Blog New Glarus Brewing Apple Ale

In this beer blog, we are going to sample out another beer from New Glarus Brewing. The beer is called Apple Ale. If you read my earlier beer blog, you know the history of this brewery. If you have not, please, read those beer blogs to get up to speed on this brewery. Let us get into the beer.

This apple ale is a hazel copper color without a head on the beer. The smell is an apple cider to the beer. The taste is a carbonation sweet apple cider beer. The aftertaste is a carbonation cider to the beer. It is a pretty drinkable beer.

Here is a description from the beer bottle:

A few times a year we cut Dan loose to brew whatever he chooses. Always handcrafted, the bottle you hold is brewed for the adventurous soul. This is a very limited edition and we make no promises to ever brew this style again.

Apple Ale sings with the fresh crisp taste of Apples. Our Brewmaster begins with a brown ale base and a blend of fresh picked apples. Our apple growing friends squeeze them especially for this brew.

Expect this Ale to pour a beautiful copper color. The fresh bouquet of Apple will rise to meet you even before the glass touches your lips. So be sure to sip slowly and enjoy the fruits of a Wisconsin Harvest.

Here is a description from their website (www.newglarusbrewing.com):

Apple Ale sings with the fresh crisp taste of Apples. Our Brewmaster begins with a brown ale base employing Wisconsin farmed wheat and a blend of fresh picked apples. Our apple growing friends squeeze them especially for this brew.

Expect this Ale to pour a beautiful copper color. The fresh bouquet of Apple will rise to meet you even before the glass touches your lips. So be sure to sip slowly and enjoy the fruits of a Wisconsin Harvest.

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.newglarusbrewing.com

Twitter: @newglarusbeer

In closing, this is what apple ales should taste like in the beer market. This is a great beer and it is pretty well balance. I really enjoyed this beer very much. It has a cider beer style to it. I know Miller Brewery Company put out their apple ale called Redd’s. The beer is carbonation apple juice beer. New Glarus Brewing did a great job on this beer and this is the apple ale to be drinking. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

New Beer Blog Sixpoint Brewing 3Beans

In this beer blog, we are going to get into another beer from Sixpoint Brewing. This is a new beer from this Brooklyn base brewery and the beer is called 3Beans. If you read my earlier beer blog post on their beers, you know about the history this brewery. If you have not, please, read the first part of that beer blog. Let us get into the beer.

The color of this unique beer from Sixpoint Brewing is a brown to dark brown color with a slight brown white color head on it. The smell is a heavy coffee bean to the beer. The taste is a full body of complex taste. It has coffee to toffee and a little chocolate. It is a understatement to say there is a ton going on in this beer. It is not drinkable beer but good beer with a cigar on a Sunday afternoon. Even though, I do not smoke.

Here is a description from the beer can:

Take thou also unte thee wheat, and barley, and beans…and part them in one vessel. The beans of bygone brewers, united with cacao and coffee, to creat a trinity of roasted, rich, and savory flavors.

Here is a desecration of the beans off the packaging of the beer:

Romano Beans

Favored by brewers in centuries past, these hardy legumes are blended with barley malt during the mashing to feed the fermentation, while their proteins add texture and complexity.

Cacao Beans

Liberated from their lager pods, the fermented husks of the roasted cacao beans add notes of rich chocolate to brew. Provided by Mast Brothers Chocolate

Coffee Beans

A cold-brewed concoction of hand-picked, meticulously roasted coffee beans infuses the brew before aging on oak. Provided by Stumptown Coffee Roasters

Beans And Beers:

A brief history, As the culture of beer spread around the globe, diverse new brewing styles emerged. When the brewers of old Baltic Europe riffed on a popular foreign style, they formulated new recipes by harnessing familiar techniques and locally available ingredients. 3Beans is a Sixpoint’s tribute to these bygone brewers: a rich, oak-aged brew with our own additions of chocolate and coffee.

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.sixpoint.com

Twitter: @sixpoint

In closing, this beer has a ton going on in it. It has a full body while giving the craft beer drinker a complex taste that will keep them coming back for more. Every sip, the drinking experience gives the beer drinker something different every time. At first, you will smell and taste the coffee but when you break it down more you will notice a few other things in the beer. I really enjoyed this beer and I will be picking it as long as it is available. I need to get back to Brooklyn to visit their brewery. I highly recommend this beer. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter; @djweiser

New Beer Blog New Glarus Back 40 Bock

In this beer blog, we are going to get into another beer from New Glarus Brewing and the beer is called Back 40 Bock. If you read my earlier beer blog on their beers, you know about this brewery. If you have not, please, read that beer blog to get up to speed on this brewery. Let us get into the beer.

It has a brown color with a snow-white head on the beer. The smell is a hint of caramel. The taste is a sweet malty with a toffee aftertaste. It is pretty drinkable and smooth beer.

Here is description from beer bottle and website (www.newglarusbrewing.com):

The “Back Forty” is property commonly found on the outskirts of the Wisconsin family farm. Here uncultivated acres wait prime for adventure forts, tree houses, rope swings and first kisses! A place to run away, to camp, to climb, to build, to play. Not actually home but not too far away. That’s the Back Forty. The beer you hold is similar both dark and adventurous still smooth and familiar. Here’s a beer you can enjoy without pretense or explanation. Every mind requires some acres of possibility, space for dreams, the great escape, everyone needs a Back Forty.

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.newglarusbrewing.com

Twitter: @newglarusbeer

Ending, this was a pretty different beer. I was expecting something else and I receive something a little better in my mind. This bock is nothing special but it is still a good beer. To me, it is a beer I am glad I try but I know I will not be trying this beer again. Let me know what you think of this beer. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

New Beer Blog New Glarus Brewing Coffee Stout

In this beer blog, we are going to get into another brew from New Glarus Brewing Company. The beer is called Coffee Stout. If you read my earlier beer blog, you know the history of this brewery. If you have not, please, read that earlier beer blog. Let us get into this beer.

This coffee stout has a black color with a tan color head on the brew. The smell is chocolate with a little coffee notes. The taste of the full body beer has a chocolate with a little coffee notes. The aftertaste is a dry coco to the beer. It is kind of drinkable beer.

Here is a description from the beer bottle and website (www.newglarusbrewing.com):

Hearty and satisfying, out Coffee Stout is the ultimate full-bodied brew. Wisconsin water, roasted malts and American hops are the natural ingredients we use to brew this bier. Then cold pressed organic coffee from Just Coffee co-op is infused into the brew.

Expect this bier to pour a deep creamy head over an ebony rich body. Notice the powerful malt bouquet balanced by a spectrum of extravagant flavor. Served at room temperature this Wisconsin Coffee Stout is guaranteed to warm even the coldest heart.

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.newglarusbrewing.com

Twitter: @newglarusbeer

In the end, this is a pretty nice coffee stout. I love how the coffee is not too heavy in this stout. Most coffee stouts have a heavy coffee and it is not very well balance. Now that might be how the beer is design which is fine. I am not knocking it but it nice to get one like this one from New Glarus. The problem I have with this brewery. I do not know if it is the water they are using or the same yeast in their beers. I just feel the base of the beers are the same and kind of taste the same. I realize coffee stout to a cream ale or a lager. I know that and they are different. There is something the same in all their beers. This was pointed out by a few of my friends and there a few breweries like this. I enjoy most of the beers I had from this brewery. This brewery makes some great beers and I wish they were in the Chicago or Michigan market, when I go back to my home state, I could drink some of their beers. Let me know what you think. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

New Beer Blog Dogfish Brewery 90 Minute Imperial IPA

In this beer blog, we are going to get another beer from the Dogfish Head Brewery. The beer is called 90 Minute Imperial IPA. If you have read my earlier blogs on their beers, you know the history of this brewery. If you have not read them, please, read those blogs to get to know this brewery. Dogfish Head Brewery is pretty well-known so you might be up to speed on this brewery. Let us get the beer.

It has a clear copper color with a white head on the beer. The smell is earthly. The taste is earthy with a touch of malts. The aftertaste has a dry with a touch of earthy notes. It is a pretty drinkable beer for being a big beer.

Here is a description from the beer bottle:

What you have here is an Imperial India Pale Ale featuring a single, constant 90-minute hop addition. It’s balanced by a ridiculous amount of English Two-row Barley. Then we dry-hop it in every tank.

Here is a description from their website (www.dogfish.com):

Esquire Magazine calls our 90 Minute IPA “perhaps the best IPA in America.” An imperial IPA best savored from a snifter, 90 Minute has a great malt backbone that stands up to the extreme hopping rate.

90 Minute IPA was the first beer we continuously hopped, allowing for a pungent — but not crushing — hop flavor.

Since introducing the world to the continuous-hopping method with our 90 Minute IPA, we’ve since released the continuously hopped 60 Minute IPA, 120 Minute IPA and even a 75 Minute IPA (a cask-conditioned blend of 60 and 90 Minute IPAs).

In addition to the continuous hopping, 90 Minute IPA is also dry hopped with our ‘Me So Hoppy’ device during conditioning (check it out in the video below).

This beer is an excellent candidate for use with our Randall The Enamel Animal filter!

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.dogfish.com

Twitter: @dogfishbeer

In closing, I do enjoy this beer. This is a pretty good beer. I just feel like most of the beers from this brewery is overpriced. I am not saying this is a bad beer. It is a pretty good beer and for Imperial IPA it is a pretty drinkable beer. There are several Imperial India Pale Ale just feel like they are extremely over hopped. There are several that are not drinkable beer. This Imperial India Pale Ale from Dogfish Head Brewery is pretty balance and drinkable. The key is it makes the hop head pretty happy. This is good but I am a huge fan of Sixpoint Resin. I like this beer. Let me know what you think. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

New Beer Blog Uinta Brewery Crooked Line Sea Legs Baltic Porter

In this beer blog, we are going to get into a seasonal from the Unita Brewery’s Crooked Line. The beer is called Sea Legs Baltic Porter. If you read my earlier beer blog on their beer, you know the history of this brewery. If you have not, please, read the first part of that beer blog. Let us get into the beer.

This seasonal in the Crooked Line has a jet black color with a tan color head on this Baltic porter. The smell is of oak chocolate wood. The taste is a complex chocolate to vanilla with a roasted with a dry chocolate aftertaste to the beer. It is a pretty drinkable beer.

Here is a description from the beer bottle:

Complex and drinkable, this barrel aged Baltic style porter exhibits chocolate and smoky malt flavors with hints of vanilla and oak. A seductive offering, Sea Legs is a siren of a beer.

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.uintabrewing.com

Twitter; @uintabrewing

In closing, I have been wanting to try this porter. This beer is just flat-out amazing. I was stun by all the flavors that is put into this beer. It is full body with complex notes but yet it is very smooth and silky. This beer is out for very limited time and if you are a fan of porter, you need to try this beer. I highly recommend trying this beer and let me know what you think. I am also looking forward to getting out to the brewery in late March. Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

New Beer Blog Big Horn Ram Tap Party Wheeling Snow Blower

In this Tap Party Beer Blog, we are going to sample out another beer from Ram Wheeling Tap Party. This is a beer style I did not know was being made. I was very interested in trying this beer. If you read my earlier beer blogs from this brewery, you are up to speed on this brewery. If you have not, please, read the first part of that beer blog. Let us get into the party.

Snow Blower is a wheat wine from the Wheeling location. It has a cloudy cooper color with a semi white head on the beer. There is no smell to the beer or I cannot pick it up. The taste is a little wheaty with a sweet malty that will burn down your throat for the aftertaste in a good way. There is a nice malt backbone. It is kind of drinkable but at 8.3% ABV.

Here is a desecration from the brewmaster:

Stylistically it is a Wheat Wine, which is a wheat based version of a barley wine. When tasting this beer the hops come forward right out of the gate with a big hop character and provide a big hop punch, but as it lingers on the palate the slight sweetness from the wheat malt comes through and a slight bit of alcoholic warmth teases the palate.

At 8.2% alcohol by volume and 70+ IBU’s it will warm you and your palate up.

Here is some photos of the food we were eating while sampling the beer:

All American Burger

American cheese, pickle chips, lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, mustard and mayo. Served with choice of Fries, Chips or Coleslaw

Nachos Deluxe

Choice of Chicken, Beef, or Combination, black beans, cheddar jack cheese, jalapeno, tomato, green onion, sour cream, and guacamole.

Dessert

This was a great desert from my birthday gift from Ram. Thanks!

Here is their website and twitter addresses:

Website: www.theram.com

Twitter: @theram and @rambrew

In closing, I really enjoyed going to these Tap Parties. I wish I can make the next one but I have at work training. I was very curious on how this beer will taste. As many of you know, I am not a fan of wheat or wheat base beers. This beer is extremely joyful to drink. The wheat is there but there is a nice hop touch to Snowblower. I love the contrast between wheat, sweetness of the normal barely wine, and hop. It is a drinkable beer but be careful because of the ABV is pretty high. This beer is the Lawnmower beer of the winter. I recommend this beer. I want to thanks to Eric and Lanny! Go get some! Drink it! Enjoy it! Metal it! \m/

Cheers!

Bill DJ Weiser

Email: djweiser13@comcast.net

Twitter: @djweiser

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