Beer-a-Day #102
Extra Special Bitter is my “go-to” style. After being disappointed by a few bottles from England that didn’t survive the trip, I’ve looked in the other direction for one from Australia.
Golden color; a little hazy. Not much head. Slight aroma, with a bit of citrus from the hops. Medium body, with a bit of a burnt-toast flavor in the finish
Beer-a-Day #101
Pale, clear yellow with an off-white head. Lots of apricot in the aroma, and not much else. A little too much apricot in the flavor for me. I might be more disposed toward it if it were the middle of August, though.
Beer-a-Day #100
Huzzah! Triple digits!
I didn’t put much (read: any) thought into what I should have for beer number one hundred, but this seems like a good choice. Says the label: “Viscous. Chocolatey. Roasty.” Those sound good. Actually, they’re three adjectives that could be assigned to me from time to time.
(Enough blathering. Open the bottle.)
Not as black as some other beers I’ve had lately, but pretty darn opaque in the glass, with a creamy medium brown head. Primarily chocolate in the aroma. Big roasty flavor (just like they promised) with a good hop bite. I find it hard to believe that it’s only 6% ABV.
A good choice to hit the century mark, if I do say so myself.
Beer-a-Day #99
This is Mendocino’s Spring Seasonal offering, which they introduced last year. This particular bottle was brewed in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Beautiful clear golden color. Head dissipates quickly. Aroma is so light it’s nearly undetectable. Big, malty, lip-smacking goodness.
Mendocino Bock Beer – Spring Seasonal
Beer-a-Day #98
Taking another chance on an import. And one in a clear glass bottle.
Nice golden color.
*sigh*
And it’s a bit lightstruck. There’s probably a nice little beer under there, but I can’t get past the skunkiness.
Oh well.
Update: At Max’s suggestion (see the comments) I got a widgetized (canned) version of Old Speckled Hen. It’s pretty good. Not skunked, that’s for sure.
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Beer-a-Day #97
This is the last Weyerbacher for a while.
Pretty amber color with a good sized head. Nice spicy hops aroma. Woody hop bit in the finish. Good stuff.
Weyerbacher Hops Infusion India Pale Ale
Here’s a cool Schaefer commercial from the 1970s featuring a Moog synthesizer and Edd Kalehoff, composer of The Price Is Right theme music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QBcrliFNk
(via Boing Boing)
The Brewers Association recently released another teaser around 2008 Craft Brewer production. Vermont holds the distinction of having more breweries per person than any other state.
Brewers Association: Breweries per Capita 2008 (PDF)
Here’s a glimpse of the top ten:
Neither my native state of New Jersey nor my adopted state of Maryland made it into the top 30, but at least I don’t live in Mississippi, which has one brewery and just a hair under 3 million people.
Beer-a-Day #96
I’m running out of Weyerbacher beers. This is a Belgian-style Tripel.
Light amber with plenty of haze, and a bunch of stuff floating in it (I hope from the bottle-conditioning). Lots of bubblegum and bananas from the yeast. No, something’s off. Too bad, I really wanted to like this. I guess I’ll have to try again.
