It just so happens I'm swigging another LFH brew. The nose was of hard cereal, but even though the initial taste bit at me the "after-bite me" was awesome and mellowed? LFH Sawtooth Ale (which I don't care) for squared. This is a respectable beer that should be bottled in Sawtooth's place. The scenery is just sad, its bitter drinking and ok at best I guess. A medium orange color and listed as a Double ESB. Made with "Glen Eagle, Pale 2-row, Munich, Oats, Light Crystal, Caramalt, Special B and Black Malt" then hopped with "Magnum, US Goldings and Cascade". The 9.4%abv is a redeeming quality but quite honestly I may pass it up for something else if given the opportunity. Wicked label though and once again marketing pulls the consumer in for the purchase.
Feb 22, 2012
Our Tastes-- Chainsaw Ale
It just so happens I'm swigging another LFH brew. The nose was of hard cereal, but even though the initial taste bit at me the "after-bite me" was awesome and mellowed? LFH Sawtooth Ale (which I don't care) for squared. This is a respectable beer that should be bottled in Sawtooth's place. The scenery is just sad, its bitter drinking and ok at best I guess. A medium orange color and listed as a Double ESB. Made with "Glen Eagle, Pale 2-row, Munich, Oats, Light Crystal, Caramalt, Special B and Black Malt" then hopped with "Magnum, US Goldings and Cascade". The 9.4%abv is a redeeming quality but quite honestly I may pass it up for something else if given the opportunity. Wicked label though and once again marketing pulls the consumer in for the purchase.
Feb 21, 2012
Our Tastes-- Weyerbacher Blasphemy v1.0
Getting back into the tasting saddle, I'm giving Blasphemy a whirl tonight. I can tell you 1st impressions are enormous! Cracking the crown on this one allowed super wafting of tart raisins and alcohol to perfuse to my nares from at least 12 inches away! The color is a medium extremely cloudy brown with a head that dissipated as soon as it hit the glass thanks to the 11.8%abv. Weyer's usual quad aged in oak barrels has made for quite a beer in these 22oz bombers. Anyone who has ever enjoyed an oak aged or fermented beer knows the sharp tones and vanilla hints that the wood imparts to the beer. With this beer being so heavy on the EtOH it reminds me a little of Reinke's. It's almost as the alcohol acts as a solvent to pull very woody, sugary, sharp vanilla, caramel tones out the oak, and the higher the abv the more pronounced! I've had this particular bottle long enough for them to change the label? Apparently I've had this bottle prior to 2011 for sure because now it is a corked 750ml ONLY that graduated from a 12oz bottle. This is a great beer for one person in a 220z bomber.
Feb 6, 2012
Salute to Ronald Reagan
Today to honor what would have been Ronny's 100th B'day I did the following:
I bought myself some Star Wars action figures (that is after all what he is known in part for, right), I drank some American beer (which you will read about shortly) and thanked God that I could openly do both (because in President Reagan's visit to the Soviet Union, yes it was called that then, he was told not to talk about Jesus/God during a public USSR address, so he told the audience a story about a man from Galilee:) When he died I was on Lake Martin with a very good friend and my many years later-to-be wife fishing!
So I'm trying another GABF 2010 beer on it's own. Oxymoron a "Teutonic India Pale Ale". A low-level off-bitter ill balanced wheat concoction offered by LFH. I've supported them in the past and even sent pics of my dog trying to "jail-break" the fridge for more of their offerings. About the only enticing quality is the aroma, it IS exquisite! Color is an off settling brown. 7.2%abv and a lineage of hops, "Magnum, Northern Brewer, Perle, Tradition, Spalter Select, Hersbrucker and dry hopped with Tradition, Spalter Select and Hersbrucker". Overall profile is that I wouldn't bootleg it back from GABF again, but I had already bought it BEFORE thoroughly tasting:( Hey, at least it's no 400lb Monkey.
I bought myself some Star Wars action figures (that is after all what he is known in part for, right), I drank some American beer (which you will read about shortly) and thanked God that I could openly do both (because in President Reagan's visit to the Soviet Union, yes it was called that then, he was told not to talk about Jesus/God during a public USSR address, so he told the audience a story about a man from Galilee:) When he died I was on Lake Martin with a very good friend and my many years later-to-be wife fishing!
So I'm trying another GABF 2010 beer on it's own. Oxymoron a "Teutonic India Pale Ale". A low-level off-bitter ill balanced wheat concoction offered by LFH. I've supported them in the past and even sent pics of my dog trying to "jail-break" the fridge for more of their offerings. About the only enticing quality is the aroma, it IS exquisite! Color is an off settling brown. 7.2%abv and a lineage of hops, "Magnum, Northern Brewer, Perle, Tradition, Spalter Select, Hersbrucker and dry hopped with Tradition, Spalter Select and Hersbrucker". Overall profile is that I wouldn't bootleg it back from GABF again, but I had already bought it BEFORE thoroughly tasting:( Hey, at least it's no 400lb Monkey.
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