Daily Archives: March 9, 2009

UFO Hefeweizen – Harpoon’s UnFiltered Offering

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Harpoon UFO HefeweizenBeer-a-Day #68

I first encountered this beer at a Super Bowl party. It’s been around since 1998, but only started getting distributed in this area fairly recently. From what I’ve read about it, it’s designed to compete with Coors’ Blue Moon Belgian White.

It’s a very pale straw color and predictably hazy. The aroma is so slight as to be almost non-existent, but I do detect just a wee bit of that wheat spiciness. It’s very light on the tongue with a clean finish. Fans of copious hops or high gravity beers will be disappointed, but it’s refreshing and one or three of these on a hot day will certainly hit the spot.

UFO Hefeweizen


Hop Talk in Mutineer Magazine

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Mutineer Magazine cover - issue 4Mutineer Magazine is a new publication based out of Los Angeles. It is about “all things fine beverage with an emphasis on wine, beer and spirits.” It’s going national soon, and is having their official launch this May.

Anyway, one of the features of the magazine is a section on beverage blogs. For issue four they focused on beer blogs, and one of the six chosen was your very own Hop Talk.

We’re in some very good company as well. The other five blogs featured are also ones that we read regularly.

In addition to a brief profile are capsule reviews of three recent blog articles for each blog .

This is a very nice publication. In this issue is a nice in-depth look at the conservation efforts of Sierra Nevada Brewing. In non-beer topics is a lengthy article on Jones Soda and another on Zane Lamprey of Three Sheets fame. Here’s hoping that Alan Kropf and JJ Bagley can keep it up.