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- Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:11 am
- Forum: Beer Events & Festivals
- Topic: CASK Challenge at C'Est What
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6521
Some further thoughts: I recall tasting around 1980 some of the keg beers then available in England. I think by then Red Barrel has been taken off the domestic market but others were available (and still are) which gave an idea of the character. If you put, say, the keg version of Bass next to the r...
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:08 pm
- Forum: Beer Events & Festivals
- Topic: CASK Challenge at C'Est What
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6521
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend this event. However, and regardless whether a cask breather is used for the real ale, I am not surprised there is not a large difference in the taste of each pair of beers. Yes, some tasters have reported differences and I have noted these, but overall my sense...
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:23 pm
- Forum: Beer Events & Festivals
- Topic: Fuller's Beer Dinner at The Abbot on the Hill
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2180
- Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:39 am
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: Dogfish Head Article in The New Yorker
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2525
The New Yorker has shown occasional interest in good beer before. I think Corby Cummer had a piece once on Belgian beer and there may have been others on particular aspects of good beer and its links with gastronomy. This current article is impressive for its accurate survey of the modern craft beer...
- Tue Nov 18, 2008 12:54 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: MacEwan's Scotch Ale
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3592
I agree re Traquair but I find Belhaven's Scotch Ale a mite dry for the style - or for my taste, rather. I agree with the comment re John Smith's but the current MacEwan's is really a cut much above. I wonder how they get the smoky taste (all the Scotch ales mentioned have it). I don't think the mal...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:35 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: MacEwan's Scotch Ale
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3592
MacEwan's Scotch Ale
This 8% ABV classic strong Scotch ale is tasting better than ever. In the past, while never a bad beer, I thought I could detect use of brewing sugars or other adjunct. The current version seems all-malt or close. It has a rounded malty and sweet palate edged with good metallic-like hopping. It has ...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:04 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: 1800's IPA
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1470
1800's IPA
The story of what India Pale Ale was originally like is complex, entertaining, revealing, and yet still full of mystery or rather imponderables. Noted beer authors such as Martyn Cornell and Pete Brown have investigated the style and added significantly in my view to the knowledge previously availab...
- Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:57 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: St. Peter's IPA
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9558
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:15 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Blending Erdinger Dunkel Weisen
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2957
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:04 pm
- Forum: General Beer Discussion & Random Talk
- Topic: New Ontario Brews (what would you like to see?)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9355
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:34 pm
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: St. Peter's Ruby Red
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8164
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:22 am
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: St. Peter's IPA
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9558
Thanks Cass. I know that blending beers strikes some as odd and fine, if it doesn't suit them they shouldn't do it. I just don't see how this is different though from making a gin and tonic, or martini, or three threads as I mentioned (or half and half and the countless other pub mixtures seen in En...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:46 am
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: St. Peter's IPA
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9558
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:42 am
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8072
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:09 am
- Forum: Local and Imported Beer Reviews
- Topic: St. Peter's IPA
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9558
St. Peter's IPA
This is from the holiday gift pack. A good round tangy beer, with some of the St. Peter's markers but brought to a higher amperage. It reminded me quite a bit of the late lamented Ballantine India Pale Ale of the 1970's and 1980's. It has quite an individualist palate and in the end I enjoyed it, in...