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grover
Social climber
Canada
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Aug 14, 2009 - 01:26am PT
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Dales is unreal, hop-fest in a can!
Dales is tasty!!!!, hoppy enough to keep ya begging for mo.
Can ya get it in bottle type?
Chambley IS a stellar Quebecian-Belgiumian treat.
Our newly re-opened pub has it on tap! WTF??
From the Shack, it's only a 25 minute down-hill hike to bliss.
Sipping on Stella right now, 4 fiddy a pint.
Up here in Northern Mexico one must take full advantage of such sales
when the beer stores are closed.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 14, 2009 - 03:39am PT
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I'm still trying to finish of this keg of PBR that I got fer our Blue Angels Seafair party a couple ago. It makes me wanna drink wine.
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adatesman
Trad climber
philadelphia, pa
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Aug 14, 2009 - 09:08am PT
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@Pennsylenvy- "Cream Ale" is a bit of a confusing term given its usage by some of the British imports. According to the BJCP Boddington's Pub Draught is a defining example of a English Pale Ale and Caffery's is a defining example of Irish Red Ale. Both owe their smooth profile to being served on nitro and having particularly low carbonation levels (much like Guinness), but are stylistically different than a "Cream Ale".
Here is a quick summary the BJCP's guidelines for Cream Ale (the full description is much longer):
Overall Impression: A clean, well-attenuated, flavorful American lawnmower beer.
History: An ale version of the American lager style. Produced by ale brewers to compete with lager brewers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States. Originally known as sparkling or present use ales, lager strains were (and sometimes still are) used by some brewers, but were not historically mixed with ale strains. Many examples are kräusened to achieve carbonation. Cold conditioning isn’t traditional, although modern brewers sometimes use it.
Commercial Examples: Genesee Cream Ale, Little Kings Cream Ale (Hudepohl), Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Cerveza Crema, Sleeman Cream Ale, New Glarus Spotted Cow, Wisconsin Brewing Whitetail Cream Ale
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2009 - 05:30pm PT
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Have you tried Gordon? I don't mean Re-Todd Gordon. I'm talking about Gordon Beer from Oskar Blues in Lyons, Colorado.
I was given a 4 pack last week as a gift and what a gift it was!
I love it! This may be the best beer that I have ever tasted from a can!
This is what the brewery says about it.
Gordon is a hybrid version of strong ale, somewhere between an Imperial Red and a Double IPA. We make it with six different malts and three types of hops, then dry-hop it with a mutha lode of Amarillo hops. It is 8.7% alcohol by volume, and has 85 International Bittering Units.
It features a gooey, resiny aroma and a luscious mouthfeel. Gordon is brewed with dash of chocolate malt in it, to round out its load of hops and balance the beer. The result is an assertive yet exceptionally smooth version of strong beer.
We brew Gordon in tribute to the late Gordon Knight. In addition to opening some of Colorado’s first microbreweries, Knight was a Vietnam vet, grade-A citizen, and huge promoter of craft beer. He lost his life in 2002 while fighting a wild fire outside of Lyons, Colorado.
Originally our winter seasonal beer, it has become a cult favorite of extreme-beer lovers, so we now brew occasional batches of Gordon throughout the year. Released in bottles in 2003 and 2004, Gordon is now sold in four packs of hand-labeled cans and on draft in select markets.
Cheers!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 24, 2009 - 01:28am PT
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Just tapped a keg of Sierra Nevada Harvest Wet Hop Ale. Pretty fookin gud. My wife met the master brewer at Sierra Nevada at Hop School this summer. he said he made five different batches with different hops and then blended them before putting them in kegs. I think it also has been bottled. Hoppy, but not overdone, slightly citrus on the palette, with a long smooth finish. Good aromatic orange peel on the nose.
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salad
climber
Escondido
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Sep 24, 2009 - 02:01am PT
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peace be with you wayno!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 24, 2009 - 04:00am PT
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Thanks bro, peace be with you also.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2009 - 04:37pm PT
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Is it Northern or Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale? They taste pretty much the same. Wet hopping is odd, but I like it! I never had it on tap.
Nice review Wayno.
I'm having an "Old Speckled Hen" right now. Cheers!
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 24, 2009 - 05:06pm PT
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Have you tried this? Nature brought a bottle, that we shared.
I was way impressed!
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Sep 24, 2009 - 07:24pm PT
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I'm drinking a Poor Simple F*#ker!!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 25, 2009 - 01:09am PT
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Blitzo, It's the Northern Hemi. one. From what I understand and I could be wrong, The Southern Hemi. is brewed in the spring using hops from New Zealand. I was looking forward to hitting it again tonight but I brought home pasta tonight and already started on some good wine at work, so it's the grape tonight. Cheers all.
Edit- No I haven't tried that one. I don't drink much bottled beer these days. I have way too many taps.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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The last time I saw Ghost he gave me some of his beers and an apple cider to try. Last night I tried his X2C Cherry Dubbel and his Ballard Brewery Lambic. Good stuff, David. I liked the X2C better as it had great fruit flavor and nice balance. The Lambic was brewed with cranberries, sour cherries and cassis and it also had great fruit and balanced acidity with an almost smoky malt flavor. Both were brewed last winter. So David what do you think the alcohol percentage was? Those two ales seemed to have a nice kick to them.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Redlands
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Gordon is good. Best thing those guys are producing IMO is Ol Chub...but I'm partial to scotch style ales.
Old Speckled Hen...a very mediocre example. My brit housemates get a kick out of seeing OSH heralded as some kind of great beer over here. My prefs are definitely british and PacNW ales and stouts.
My top 5 (must be readily/continuously available, no one-offs or limited eds), in no order:
1. Young's Double Chocolate Stout
2. Terminal Gravity IPA
3. Old Peculier
4. Pike Kilt Lifter
5. Copper Hook
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Hi Wayne. Glad you liked them. Alcohol in the dubbel is probably about 8.5%. Kind of hard to calculate because the fruit goes in after the primary and there's no easy way to measure how much it boosts the alcohol. As to the lambic, I have no idea. Mari brewed that one, and her record-keeping is indecipherable. My guess is that it's probably around 5% to 6%, but that guess is based on tasting, not on science.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2009 - 03:04pm PT
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Will, I don't know about the OSH, I like it. I like it better than Samuel Smith's Pale Ale.
I used to like Old Peculier about 30 years ago when it came in the little big mouth zip tab bottles. Seems that it's gone downhill since then. Maybe my taste has just changed.
I like the Double chocolate stout. I really like Young's Old Nick.
I never tried Terminal Gravity.
I love Old Chub!
Try Skullsplitter.
I don't care for Copperhook.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Redlands
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Word on the street is, Theakston isn't exporting to America anymore...in bottles, anyway. So no more Old Peculier here (note the correct spelling, with an "e" not an "a"). "Peculier" is actually a reference to the sort of land division outside the dioceses or something, akin to a borough or county I guess. Unless you have some british connects willing to ship it, good lucking finding any (luckily I'm the only non-Brit in my house).
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2009 - 04:46pm PT
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You're right! Sorry about the spelling error.
I named a route and a cliff after this beer, up at Echo Lakes, near Lake Tahoe. It's right next to Billyland. I don't recall if I spelled it correctly.
I never see that stuff anywhere anymore.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Redlands
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Blute, the Horse Brass pub in Portland used to have it on tap regularly when I lived there. Theakston ships things from their on-line gift shop, but won't ship actual beer, wtf? There's another micro/rare beer specialty store right next to Horse Brass called...uh...Belmont Station?(iirc), I used to get it there in bottles.
Going to have to call Theakston up and try to find a source.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2009 - 05:18pm PT
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Did you ever try Theakston Bitter Ale?
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Trad climber
valley center, ca
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I have become a fan of Old English 800 :D Better late than never.
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