Archive for the ‘beer’ Category
Friday, January 5th, 2007
I had a bottle of the Sam Adams Black Lager before I left for Christmas break, and I've finally gotten around to writing my review. The black lager poured a very dark brown, but it was not entirely opaque like the densest stouts or porters I have previously had. This ...
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
I just had the Sam Adams Brown Ale for the first time the other night. It poured a dark orange and brown color with a thin head that dissipated very quickly. It certainly looked like the other brown ales I had tried before.
Immediately I noticed a malty taste. There was ...
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
Last week Wolfe, Greg, Mike, Roger, and I performed a taste test of several east Asian beers. And no, the test was not performed blind. We cheated, so what? The beers we sampled were Asahi (Japan), Sapporo (Japan), Singha (Thailand), Tiger (Singapore), Kirin Ichiban (Japan), Tsingtao (China), and San Miguel ...
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Let me give you some backstory here: I tend to go for beers that are a little bit out of the norm. Some people like stouts, some like pilsners, but I like freakish. I once tried a beer that I can only describe as having "something substantially ...
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Kristin and Wolfe got me several bottles of the Russian beer Baltika for my birthday a few months back. Last week I had the Number 2 Lager with dinner, and all I have to say is "wow!" This lager and the Trumer Pils are numbers 1 and 2 on my ...
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
I was at Trader Joe's a couple of weeks ago, and after a quick perusal of their beer offerings, I stumbled across Oranjeboom, a Dutch lager. At least for now, Oranjeboom even has its own very crappy Wikipedia page. Anyway, I bought a six pack of it for a measly ...
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