Friday, July 30, 2010
The End of History
I don't what's better about this BrewDog beer, the fact it's the world's most alcoholic beer or that it's packaging is a real taxidermied squirrel.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Little Creatures Pale Ale
Little Creatures Brewery
I received an awesome book for my birthday a few months back called 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die. if you haven't figured out by the fact that I have a blog dedicated to this wonderful elixir and that my last three vacations have centered around brewery tours and brew pubs, I love beer. that being said, of the 1001 beers in the book, I've sadly only just drank past the century mark. I felt like a beer novice after discovering this measly number, until I read that one of the book's contributors, who has been a beverage journalist for 20 years, has only tried 250-300 beers of the book's 1001. my mission over the next
few months is to stick to the book and get drink off some of my beer bucket list.
one such beer on the bucket list is the Pale Ale from Australian brewer Little Creatures. I have previously passed up this beer in the aisles of Brewery Creek for two reasons. first, BC only sells it by the single bottle and charges $4 a pop. secondly, it's Australian. I know that Ozzies are great drinkers, but with only Foster's and VB to form my outright opinion of an entire nations beer existence, I just figured that Australians were great at drinking crappy beer. like with most things that I form an unreasonable opinion over, I was wrong.
the pungent floral hops of the LC Pale Ale hit your nose right when the cap is cracked. light citrus aroma comes along with those floral notes. she poured an amber/honey colour with a decent amount of a foamy head. I tasted some fruit at first and then the hops cut through that sweetness and settled into my mouth. although lingering, the hops are toned down a lot in this Pale Ale allowing some of the sweet tastes to mingle. after being in Portland and being subjected to some over the top Pales and IPAs using traditional west cost hops (Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, etc), it was nice to have a beer using these same hop strains to a much mellower effect. as the beer warmed up, the fruit came out a little bit more. this is my ideal summer beer - lots of flavour, a nice bitter bite, and one that you will make you skip to and from your fridge a few times over the course of a night.
B+ 355 ml bottle, 5.2%
I received an awesome book for my birthday a few months back called 1001 Beers You Must Taste Before You Die. if you haven't figured out by the fact that I have a blog dedicated to this wonderful elixir and that my last three vacations have centered around brewery tours and brew pubs, I love beer. that being said, of the 1001 beers in the book, I've sadly only just drank past the century mark. I felt like a beer novice after discovering this measly number, until I read that one of the book's contributors, who has been a beverage journalist for 20 years, has only tried 250-300 beers of the book's 1001. my mission over the next
few months is to stick to the book and get drink off some of my beer bucket list.one such beer on the bucket list is the Pale Ale from Australian brewer Little Creatures. I have previously passed up this beer in the aisles of Brewery Creek for two reasons. first, BC only sells it by the single bottle and charges $4 a pop. secondly, it's Australian. I know that Ozzies are great drinkers, but with only Foster's and VB to form my outright opinion of an entire nations beer existence, I just figured that Australians were great at drinking crappy beer. like with most things that I form an unreasonable opinion over, I was wrong.
the pungent floral hops of the LC Pale Ale hit your nose right when the cap is cracked. light citrus aroma comes along with those floral notes. she poured an amber/honey colour with a decent amount of a foamy head. I tasted some fruit at first and then the hops cut through that sweetness and settled into my mouth. although lingering, the hops are toned down a lot in this Pale Ale allowing some of the sweet tastes to mingle. after being in Portland and being subjected to some over the top Pales and IPAs using traditional west cost hops (Cascade, Centennial, Chinook, etc), it was nice to have a beer using these same hop strains to a much mellower effect. as the beer warmed up, the fruit came out a little bit more. this is my ideal summer beer - lots of flavour, a nice bitter bite, and one that you will make you skip to and from your fridge a few times over the course of a night.
B+ 355 ml bottle, 5.2%
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