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My Antonia

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I last had this at our Octoberfest celebration. I don’t often buy bombers, but my wife has bought me a couple of treats recently.

They say:

My Antonia started out as a Collaboration beer when Sam [Calagione] brewed it at Birra del Borgo outside Rome, Italy with owner/brewer Leonardo DiVencenzo in October of 2008. In 2010, we began brewing My Antonia here at Dogfish Head brewery in Delaware for U.S. distribution.

My Antonia (named after the Willa Cather read), is a continually-hopped imperial pilsner.

It pours a pale straw; what little head there is is white and fizzy. There’s a little chill haze. Slightly floral aroma with a hint of some spice (pepper?). Flavor is bigger than it looks, with a big malt backbone and a bitter finish.

This is good stuff. I’ll be having this again. Soon.

Rogue Morimoto’s Imperial Pilsner

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I found a hidden gem in an offbeat section of Troy, New York: DeFazio’s Pizza.

I had stumbled upon the place using Yelp (or some other such app) on my iPhone. I was very skeptical at first having never heard of it before yet it had great reviews online. It also noted it as a BYOB. So, I gave them a call to check them out and they were very nice, suggested reserving us a table and said that we could bring our own booze. Perfect! I was ready for an adventure and I wanted to try the Rogue’s Morimoto Imperial Pilsner Al gave me.

It was a bit hard to find on a rainy Saturday evening, but I was not deterred. The place was small. Very small. The décor was…scant. My wife said the parking was scary. But they were very nice, gave us personalized service, and the pizza was high quality gourmet. We were going to the theater that evening and there were a few other people we suspected had the same agenda. Others brought several bottles of wine and looked like they were going to make it their entire evening.

My biggest complaint would be that they didn’t provide glasses, so I had to have my pilsner in a plastic cup. But that didn’t ruin it for me, nor the beer. This pilsner was in-your-face hoppy. This is basically an IPA brewed as a lager. But it also had good depth, meaning it wasn’t just hops, with a strong body of malted barley to back it up. Excellent all around; thanks Al.


Samuel Adams Hallertau Imperial Pilsner

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Samuel Adams Hallertau Imperial PilsnerBeer-a-Day #40

This concludes Samuel Adams week.

This is subtitled “An Intense Hop Experience”. Since when did Boston Beer Company do hop bombs? When I spotted this at my favorite retailer I decided to do a six of Sam Adams beers.

Light yellow with haze and a prodigious white head. Lots of hop spiciness in the aroma. Light-medium body with lots of hop bite. For a hophead like me this is quite the find.