Category: Beer Bar Reviews


The Bruery Provisions: thank you Jesus…

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Nov.03, 2010

The Bruery is hands down one of my favorite breweries out there. They treat their craft beer lovers very well and their beer club is amazing. When people freak out over rumors on Beer Advocate, the owner will actually take the time to correct the rumor in a very nice way (unlike other Brewery owners)…So when Dave and I learned that they were finally going to make their own outpost besides their own Brewery, we were very, very excited to go…

We were not disappointed. They not only have bottles of craft beer but they have wine as well. They are not a restaurant; they have a huge selection of amazing cheeses and a tasting bar where you can try a few different flights of beers with a few bar stools and rough French-chic long tables  where you can easily meet a few friends.

We chose their Seasonal Draft Taster for $5, their Barrel-Aged Flight for $10 and an amazing cheese plate for $9.

7 Grain Saison- 5% abv. 7 different grains: barley, wheat, rice, oats, corn, rye and spelt. It pours a semi- clear hay yellow. It smells sweet with juicy grapes, barley, yeasty and a bit bread-y. It tastes like
robust bread, toast, wheat and then turns to bitter pine. Interesting. This would be a great beer for a pairing.

Trade Winds Tripel- Belgian-style Tripel. It is made with rice in the mash and Thai basil in the boil. It pours a golden yellow. It smells light; rice and a touch of herbal-essence. It tastes like semi sweet rice and a strong herbal ending. It does not taste directly like basil. It is more of a food beer than straight up drinking.

Mischief- Hoppy Belgian-style Golden Strong Ale. This pours a clear dark amber resin. It pours a clear bright sun yellow. It smells like yeast, citrus and hops. It

tastes like ripe pear, citrus, pine resin and melon.

Loakal Red- This is their first beer brewed with California ale yeast instead if their usual Belgian strain. It is 2 versions of the same  red ale- one aged for about 1 month in New American oak barrels and then dry hopped. It smells like sweet, milk chocolate, citrus, orange zest and bread-y. It tastes milder than it’s nose; it has flavors of citrus, slight milk chocolate, pine and a touch of spice on the finish.

Autumn Maple- Brewed with 17lbs of yams per barrel, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla, molasses, and maple syrup. It pours a deep red amber. It smells like a Belgian Thanksgiving. It tastes like sweet pumpkins, brown sugar, and hints of spices. It’s really good.

Papier- Belgian-style Old Ale. The Bruery’s 1st anniversary ale. The  traditional 1st anniversary gift is paper. It pours a cloudy red mahogany. It smells like prunes, dates, molasses, vanilla and burnt sugar. It tastes like brown sugar, molasses, vanilla, bourbon, roasted plums and vanilla.

Coton. Belgian-style Old Ale. The traditional 2nd anniversary gift is s

omething made out of cotton. It pours a brighter red mahogony. It smells like raisins, spices, caramel and vanilla. It tastes like caramel, raisins, oak, vanilla and dates.

100% Barrel Aged Coton- Same beer aged in bourbon barrels for 1 year. It pours a murky chestnut. It smells like heavy bourbon, vanilla, roasted malt and dark fruits. It tastes like bourbon, vanilla, molasses, prunes and plums. A lot heavier than the original Coton and definitely a sipper.

Mélange número 3- Meaning mixture number 3, this beer is an equal blend of 3 bourbon barrel-aged beers: Black Tuesday, Papier and White Oak Sap. 15.5% abv. It pours a dark red mahogny. It smells like bourbon, vanilla, roasted cereal, caramel and dark stewed fruits. It tastes like bourbon, vanilla, brown sugar, caramel, dark chocolate, plums and raisins.

A trip well spent…too bad it is in Orange County otherwise I would be there all the time. It is probably THE only good place in the entire county!

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A visit to The Pike Brewery in Seattle

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Oct.24, 2010

The Pike district has always been my association of Seattle’s version of Fisherman’s wharf. Always chock full of tourists and everybody getting in your way. However, what attracts me to this area in Seattle is always the little nocks and crannies and alleyways that take you to some fabulous tiny bar or undisclosed restaurant. The Pike Brewery is actually not that hard to find. And I thought it just would be mediocre; being that it is in the heart of the mall at The Pike. But tasting their beers and seeing what they had to offer, I was pleasantly surprised (with some of the beers).

Pike Naughty Nellie- Golden Organic Ale. 5.5% abv. This pours a clear yellow hay. It smells like water. It tastes like mild wheat with a touch of sweetness. It is named for Nellie Curtis, the madam of the LaSalle Hotel, where Pike Brewing was founded. It says this beer is very sexy… Don’t know about that sex appeal. It is not a sexy beer by far.

Pike Pale Ale- Heirloom Amber 5% abv. This pours a clear red amber. It smells like a pilsner. I get hardly any nose in it. It tastes like mild mild hops. Eh. It tastes like bitter water. A waste of a beer.

Pike IPA- 6.3% abv. This pours a clear amber. It smells like honey, wheat and a touch of sweet malt. It tastes like a touch of bitter hops, pine and a touch of  sweet malt finish. It tasted better than expected.

Kilt Lifter- Scotch ale with whiskey and scotch. 6.5% abv. Points for the name. It pours a deeper clear teak. It smells like very very slight scotch and malt. It tastes like sweet malt, then actually a rush of smokiness, scotch and a bitter, dry ending. Interesting. It  has almost no nose.

Pike Tandem- Double Ale- 7% abv. Another good name! It pours a dark chocolate brown. It smells like sweet caramel malt and a touch of smoke. It tastes like sweet caramel, roasted malt and cereal. This is really good and very interesting.

Pike XXXXX- Extra Stout. Apparently it is an extra stout. It pours a pitch black. It smells like a very mild coffee. It has hardly a nose too. It tastes like bitter coffee, roasted malt, bitterness and vanilla. It is a

decent stout. Nothing unique but nothing bad.

Pike Monk’s Uncle on cask. 9% abv. This pours a cloudy, murky teak. It smells like a touch of sweet caramel and funk- but just slightly. Their beers are just not very pungeant on the nose. This baby  tastes like wheat, sweet caramel, plums and yeast. It is very light and interesting with the wheat and the plums and thebelgiany qualities. The description says it is dry and it’s not at all. It’s actually very wet and fruity. This would be my definition of a sexy beer.

Overall, this place is better than expected. It is right on Pike place and I expected it to be run of the mill. The food is pretty standard pub food with a heavy emphasis on fish ( we are at Pike Place afterall). The service was iffy and a bit rude; the ambiance is very commercial feeling with a lot of merchandise and the fact that it is in the middle of a mall. But they do have really nice tin roofs. Out of all the beers, 2 were ones that I would get again and 2 were good and 3 I never will get again. They also have a cute handout/pocket guide which lists all of their beers, the gravity,

abv, malt varieties, hop varieties, IBU, color, yeast, flavor profile ( except some of them are wrong), history, package and availability. It’s pretty handy and useful. It also says on it that Micheal Jackson called Pike “a shrine to beer!”. Looks like that was a while ago…plus it says they brew a Pike Bride Ale which I have no idea what type of beer that may be, but the thought of it is nice. They also brew a Pike Entire, which is 9.5%, a Pike Old Bawdy which is 9.9% and a Pike Double IPA which is 8%. I wish they would have had those while I was there!

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A visit to New Belgium and Odell Breweries

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Oct.06, 2010

As many times as we have been to the Denver/Boulder area, we had never ventured up to New Belgium or Odells. This year we were able to plan enough time to go up to Fort Collins for the day.

First up: A tour of New Belgium Brewery. The tour lasted 1 1/2 hours and had 5 tastes of beer along the way and a free chip good for 1 more beer at the bar afterwards. If you have been on a beer tour, you have seen them all, right? Wrong. This beer tour was probably my most favorite beer tour I have ever been on! Not only do they tell you how they make their beer and the process and so forth, but they really make it fun along the way. You get to pour your own beer from a tap (including LA Folie), you see all of the really cool, commissioned artwork along the way (including ceramic inlays and interactive shadow boxes), you can pick fresh plums from a freaking plum tree, as well as raspberries, play pin ball, pin your hometown on a map, go down a slide, eat some dark chocolate, drink some great beer and learn a few facts, all for FREE. We even got to try a Fat Tire 20 minutes after it was bottled.

I learned that La Folie is the first sour brown ale in the USA. That the brewer from Rodenbach is the genius behind all of the Lips of Faith series. Josh Johnson out of Denver is the artist that was commissoned to create the mini box Vignettes. They are very eco friendly in their brewing process, AND that New Belgium is employee owned. They wouldn’t even take tips at the bar!

We tried along the way:

Haggdoren Lips of Faith light German style lager- wheat wheat and more wheat.

1554-  is a recipe from 1554 that the brewer had never heard of before.The brewer and his Kramer-like friend, took a picture of this recipe in a library in Belgium when the flash went off. Considering these books were so old and on parchment paper, this was a big no-no. The guards came in and kicked them out. However, they didn’t make them erase their photo and 1554 was born again. It is an enlightened black ale. 5.4% abv. Chocolate, burnt espresso roasted malt.

Berlinerweisse- pours a clear hay. It smells like sour lemons and  funky yeast. It taste like light sour, slightly sweet and slightly
sugar-y. Very light and pretty. Feminine. Awesome.

Sahtea made with juniper berries. It’s a Finnish style of beer. Pours a golden caramel. It smells like yeast with some herbslessence. It taste like  slight caramel, juniper very light. Hot lava rocks when you start the  boil to carmelized the wort.

Ranger- smells like pounds of grapefruit skin and pine. It tasteslike hoppy pine, grapefruit skin and a lit of bitterness. A great session IPA.

Hoptoberfest- nice and hoppy; very fruity. Grapefrut, passionfruit and  very mango and bitter. Pretty delish.

Pretty cool.

Since we were so close, we couldn’t refuse to stop at Odells Brewery. I was able to try their sampler of beers:

Snowriders Ale- pours a clear hay yellow. It smells like mango and hops! It tastes like light bitterness and a very slight mango and slight hops. A good start. 4.8% abv. Made with Centennial and Amarillo hops.

Curry Wheat. Props on the combination. 6.5% abv. German style hefeweizen. Fresh Kaffir lime zest and leaves, coconut, Ginger, cayenne, cinnamon and fenugreek blend it pours a cloudy hay. It smells like sweet coconut curry wheat. It tastes like light wheat then savory curry and spices and then sweet coconut. Interesting. Not overwhelming at all. A bit too food like for me to want an entire pint but I bet it would pair extremely well with food.

Hasta La Muerte- 5.6% abv. Austria’s answer to Oktoberfest. A lager brewed with Vienna, Pilsner and Crystal malts with hints of chocolate male for color. It pours a clear mahogony. It smells like slight  chocolate and nuts. It tastes like mild chocolate, slightlycarmelized malts and nuttiness. Just ok.

Isolation Ale- 6.1% abv. Premium malts from England. Winter warmer  style. It pours a clear red amber. It smells like mild malt and a touch of wheat. It tastes like mild malt and roasted nuts. Just ok.

Nitro Cutthroat Porter- 4.8% abv. Brewed with London porter tradition. It pours a semi cloudy milk chocolate. It smells like roasted coffee, chocolate and roasted malts. It tastes like milk chocaye, nuts andvery creamy malt.

The Wanderer- 11.2% abv. Double Marzen with Brettanomyces. Pineapple, caramel and a dry tart Finnish. It pours a clear caramel teak. It smells like sour, pineapple and caramel. It tastes like sour, malty, caramel, dark fruits and slight citrus from pineapple and mango. Mmmm good! Nice!

Bourbon Barrel Stout- 10.5% abv. It pours a dark solid chocolate. It smells like caramel, toffee and bourbon. It taste like vanilla, caramel, toffee and bourbon.

This was not a bad way to spend a day. I highly recommend you venturing out there if you have the time!

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A visit to Avery during the GABF

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Sep.29, 2010

No visit to Colorado is ever complete without a visit to Avery in Boulder. One of our dear friends lives only 5 miles from Avery- with a bus line that can take him back and forth. We also make a few visits to Avery when we visit him, GABF or not, but being that this was the GABF weekend, they did have some tasty brews available.

We tried:

Avery’s Quinquepartite- barrel aged sour ale. 9.91% abv. 37% ale aged in Cabernet barrels, 25% ale aged in chardonay barrels, 21% ale aged  in port barrels, & 17% ale aged in Zinfendal barrels. This beer pours an orange teak. It smells like oak and wine. It tastes like sour funk then sweet port then oak and chardonay. Interesting. Very complex; but not too crazy sour. Our friend was nice enough to give us 2 bottles of this beer to bring back with us…

Avery’s Beast from the wood aged in 9 months in just plain oak. This pours a beautiful red mahogony. It smells like caramel, toffee, oak and alcohol. It tastes like sweet caramel, toffee, oak and a nice burn. Nice.

Avery’s Missionary (panty dropper ale PDA) The Reverend with a bunch of guava. It pours a cloudy teak. It smells like sweet sweet guava and mangos and caramel. It tastes like juicy guava, passionfruit, and caramel. Mmmm delish!

We also tried on Thursday before we went to the GABF:

Avery’s Meth Addict was their Mephistopheles with coffee. This was an amazing beer with flavors of raosted malt, maple syrup, roasted espresso, vanilla and pretty bourbon-y.

Avery’s Molluck was Avery’s Samaels and The Reverend bourbon barrel aged. You missed out.

Avery’s Fumator was a smoked beer aged in barrels. It was pretty bacon-y. I am not a fan of smokey beers but everyone who was really liked this beer.

The only thing Avery is missing is a tarmat so we can just directly fly into it…

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A visit to Pizza Port in San Clemente

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Sep.11, 2010

Being that the summer weather in San Francisco has been the worst in 40 years, any sort of sunshine I get is like a gift that I want to savor.

I recently went to San Clemente for a business trip and we were smart enough to leave on a Sunday. This way we  actually got to enjoy the cute little sleepy beach town in Southern California- and its nice, warm and sunny weather!

So we walked around, went to the beach, walked on the boardwalk and did some vintage shopping. And a perfect way to end our nice relaxing day was to head to Pizza Port to try some tasty beers.

First up: Pizza Port Warrior-Black IPA.There is nothing else that I ever want but a nice IPA on a hot summer day. This pours a dark chocolate black. It smells like mango, juicy grapefruit skin, pine and a touch of sweet malt. It tastes like roasted chocolate, grapefruit skin, sweet mango and pine. It is really well balanced between the malt and pine flavors. Perfect for a sunny Sunday afternoon in San Clemente.

Next: Doheny Double IPA-This pours a dark red orange. It smells like juicy grapefruit skin, passion fruit and pine. It tastes like sweet mangos and passion fruit and a touch of bitterness from the pine. It’s incredibly sweet! It is one of the sweetest IPA’s I have ever had…

Up Next: St Louis Fond Tradition Gueze- This pours a golden hay. It smells like lemons,  sour and funk. It tastes like sour lemon funky pucker! Mmm. It was nice to try this one on tap.

Last: Double Red Ale- This pours an opaque red mahogany. It smells like sweet caramel, malt, and a touch of grapefruit skin. It tastes like sweet malt, cereal, pine and grapefruit. It is incredibly juicy, yet balanced with the malt characteristics.

Overall, it was nice to have some decent beers on a relaxing beach day. It’s great that Pizza Port offers their own beers as well as guest taps. Their food isn’t what you seek out, but not many beers places sadly have decent food. Their main offerings are pizza, California bread-y style (which is always a hard sell to this East Coaster but they do offer a whole grain beer crust which was decent) and makes sense for their main beach clientele (which seems to be local beer surfer dudes and families). And yes, I get the that the name of the brewery has Pizza in it. And at least they had a decent ladies bathroom. I just wish someone would stop offering great beer with crappy bar food. I know beer goes well with fried things and pizza but it goes well with many other things too! Why does it always have to be something unhealthy or run of the mill? I really advocate for there to be an overhaul on food menus at these beer places. I really want to drink their beer but I really don’t want to eat their food! It’s odd to me too because some of these brewers use just fantastic ingredients and take the time to get their beers just right and then they offer crappy food with it. It just doesn’t show the beer the love it deserves and it just doesn’t make sense. Pizza Port does have decent pizza (unlike places like Firestone Walker where their pizza is inedible and just insulting to their beer AND their in wine country???) and I am not trying to rip on them, it is just really frustrating as a traveler that I really want to go have a great beer but then I am stuck with crappy unhealthy food…that just does not stand up to compliment their beer.

Anyway, I am off to the GABF on Thursday! Who hoo! Say hi if you are there!!! More to report later!

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Another fabulous Sunday hanging out at Beer Revolution

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Aug.28, 2010

What does one do when it reaches above 85 degrees for the first time all summer in San Francisco? One heads outside the city to Beer Revolution of course! Nothing like sitting on the deck and enjoying a few beers. Plus Stella gets to go with us since it’s dog friendly…

We only had a few beers since we were driving but what we did have was delicious!

Midnight Sun’s XXX Black Double IPA. 8 1/2% abv. This pours a cloudy red- black. It smells like sweet mangoes, juicy pine forest and a touch of roasted malt. It tastes like roasted malt, dry espresso, dry pine, and a super bitter grapefruitcskin ending. Pretty amazing.

The Bruery’s Autumn Maple. 10% abv. Brewed with 100% Brett. This pours a cloudy red copper. It smells like sweet maple, caramel, dark  fruits, cereal and sweet malt. It tastes like sweet raisins, stewed
prunes, a touch of cinnamon, cereal, and sweet maple malt. It’s good
if you like sweet beers. It’s also the best beer brewed with 100% Brett that I have actually enjoyed.

Can I just say what amazing beers they keep getting on draft at Beer Revolution? You MUST go if you have not been before. Plus I heard through the grapevine that they are going to put in a vegan sandwich counter in there too.  Nothing like drinking beer and being good to the animals and environment too!

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Beer Blending event at Beer Revolution

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Aug.21, 2010

Ah, Beer Revolution. Your outdoor tables, your friendly service, your cheap beer prices..everything a beer bar/store should be, but the only one in the SF Bay Area that does it right. If only you weren’t in Oakland then I would visit more often…

Dave and I went to Jason’s & Chris’ beer blending event in which all tips went as a donation to the local SPCA. We had heard that the last beer blending event they did was fantastic so we didn’t want to miss out on this one.

Sour Patch IPA- blend of the Jacobson’s Rouge and 90 Minute IPA. This pours a red clear mahogony. It smells like delicious sourness, slight cherry, pine and citrus. It tastes like slightly sweet tart cherries, slight oak, sour funk and then slightly bitter and piney. Absolutely delicious!

Hop on Grandad- blend if Old Stock , 90 minute IPA and a splash of Jacobson’s Rouge. It pours a cloudy, slightly darker red sienna. It smells like Old Stock- bourbon, vanilla and a touch of citrus. It tastes like pine, then sweet vanilla, then slight bourbon and then a citrus ending. Very interesting. Kudos.

Forbidden Fruit-this pours a pitch black. It smells light; with  touches of malt, hops, toffee and slight cherry sour funk. It tastes like tart roasted malt, a touch of coffee, citrus,sour tartness and a touch of pine sour ending. My least favorite but it is still  interesting and good.

Victory is (s)ours- serpent stout, old stock and jacobsons rouge. This pours a rich black. It smells like malt, caramel, vanilla and slight sour. It tastes like sweet vanilla, malt, slight pine, citrus and a large cherry funk ending.Really good too.

This wasn’t a beer event to miss.

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A visit to Laurelwood Brewing, Amnesia Brewing & HUB

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Aug.19, 2010

We have heard a lot about Laurelwood Brewing from a bunch of people here in Portland but I have never had time to visit and taste their beers before. Laurelwood Brewing is Portland’s original certified organic brewery.

We stopped in during the late afternoon for a pint and it happened to be happy hour- score! Again, ti being so hot, all I wanted was to try their IPA.

Workhorse IPA- 7.5% abv and 80 IBU. This pours an orange teak. It smells like sweet jucy mango, pine and fresh grapefruit. It smells absolutely delish. It tastes like grass, pine forest, grapefruit skin and a field of mangoes and passionfruit. Mmm good. My favorite IPA so far in Portland.

And we had time for just one more:

So I decided to try their Barleywine- This pours a reddish chocolate brown. It smells like sweet malt, slight milk chocolate and a touch of caramel. It tastes a bit light for a barleywine; but nice for sipping outside on a hot day. It tastes like sweet toffee and a touch of malt; not too much roastiness and a bit like watered down milk chocolate. There is some slight tea flavor in their as well. It’s nice but a touch too sweet.

Laurelwood seemed pretty great for being an Organic brewery. Usually if my husband sees the word Organic, he is actually not going to order it. He claims not many organic breweries make great beer..not sure why that is actually. But Laurelwood is one for trying if you happen to be in Portland.

We happened to fall upon Amnesia while walking around the Mississippi street area of Portland. And again, it being a hot day. we wanted to sit and have a beer. I had never heard of them before, so we decided to try them. They had a ton of tables outside which seemed perfect for relaxing and enjoying a pint. They have mostly beers under 6%abv. The had the standard Pale  Ale, ESB, Porter, Summer Ale and Lagers. Nothing that was really grabbing my attention. But still, we were already there so I might as well try their IPA.

Desolation IPA-6.2% abv. This pours a rich orange amber. It smells like sweet malt, touch of pine and citrus. It tastes like a standard middle of the road IPA. It is great on a hot day but nothing memorable. It has the normal hops, slight pine and citrus flavors to it. It has a decent dry hoppy finish. It did not make me want to stay and try another beer.

Next up: We were meeting a few friends and collegues at HUB.

HUB stands for Hopworks Urban Brewery. Portland’s only Eco-Brewpub.

We had tried some of their beers at last year’s Portland Brewery festival. So first up:

Organic Hopworks IPA- 6.6%abv. 75IBU’s. This pours a clear orange teak. It smells like citrus, slightly juicy mangos and deep pine. It tastes like juicy mangoes, citrus, fresh pine forest and a great juicy slightly bitter grapefruit skin ending. Very drinkable. A great IPA.

Velvet ESB (Black ESB)-Pours a pitch black. It smells like roasted malt, slight chocolate, and sweet toffee with slight vanilla. It tastes like sweet roasted
malt, with HUGE vanilla, and bitter coffee. It ends pretty bitterly.  In a good way bit seems a liitle too sweet for an ESB.

Those were the only 2 I got to try as I was being pulled to go to Green Dragon, which is another fantastic beer bar to get to if you are ever in Portland.

So lessons learned:

Laurelwood: Yes, go try their beers. Don’t get scared by the fact that they are organic.

Amnesia: Nothing to write home about, but a cute spot to enjoy the sun.

HUB- Great beers going on here. Eco, Organic but oh so good.

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A visit to Deschutes in Portland

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Aug.15, 2010

No visit is ever complete without a visit to Descutes in downtown Portland. Yeah, the food is crappy bar food but the beer usually makes up for it.

I happened to be in Portland for work (tough job, I know!) and I was able to convince my friend to go with me after a few work meetings that day. It was really hot so all I wanted was an IPA.

So I ordered the Fresh Squeezed IPA on cask. It  is 6.5% and 60 IBU’s. Sounds good, right? Wrong. It tastes like citrus hops then rotten feet. Like a homeless man’s feet. It was really bad. Seems like the cask was old…It was so bad I returned it. The waitress told me it was much better last year and that a lot of people returned this beer. But with the rotten feet aspect, it was probably more likely that there cask of this beer had turned.

So I then opted for what I should have gotten in the first place: Hop Henge Batch 8. 2010 Concordia Cup Winner. It is 8.7% and 90 IBU’s. It pours a deep orange amber with a touch if head. It smells like fresh juicy hops! ( this should be called the Fresh Squeezed IPA) the other should  just be called ‘no thank you‘. It tastes like fresh citrus, pine forest, grapefruit skin and a nice dry piney skin ending. Delish.

Next, I tried my friend’s Alma NWPA on cask. This beer is named after the birthing center, Alma Midwifery since many Deschutes employees give
birth there. This beer is 5.8% and 50 IBU’s. It made with 5 specialty malts, loads of Centennial and a touch of Cascade hops. It pours a touch cloudy teak. It smells like slightly sweet and juicy mango and  slight pine. It smells a tad hoppier than expected. It tastes like mild pine with a touch of wheat and a hint of a citrus ending. Pretty light but semi flavorful. I was expecting more. But it is nice for them to make a beer for their Descutes ladies.

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