Features
The Brew Zoo Review
Many breweriana collectors deal with their lack of display space by specializing in a particular theme. A great specialization that is growing in popularity is the animals used in beer advertising. Within the animal theme, further specialization is possible; for example, a collector of bock beer items may pursue only advertising featuring a goat.
Brilliant Beer Bars
What makes a great beer bar? Think of your favorite place to enjoy a pint, what makes it special to you, and that’s what makes a great beer bar. It may have mind-boggling variety, or a small range of beers that are lovingly tended. It may be funky, elegant, noisy, laid-back, spare, or historic; with […]
For the Love of Hops: The Birth of a New Style
We have been rolling hop bombs across our tongues for about two hours now and have little humor for what the innocent Great American Beer Festival volunteer across the serving table is trying to tell us. “We’d like the Dorado Double IPA,” I say.
Quality Brewing from a Big Player
Scratch the history of Europe and you reveal old enmities, disputed borders and centuries of bloody war. Today, as you drive through the peaceful countryside of Alsace, nestled between the Vosges mountains and the mighty river Rhine, it is hard to imagine that the region has long been part of history’s game of pass the […]
Columns
Please—Not Again. Yes—Lower the Drinking Age
Periodically, my daily newspaper, the Oregonian, presents another babblement on the drinking problems of our young people, often followed by a vicious editorial. It seems these troublesome youths drink alcoholic beverages, especially beer, with entirely too much gusto. These young hooligans carry on from a right early age, some as young as 12. And it’s […]
Departments
Old Ales
Old ales bring with them a curious moniker. Are they called “old” because of an extended aging period, a nod to venerability, or because of an old method or style? In the keynote representatives of the style, it is all three.
Barley Wine in the Far North
It was the middle of January, and our Michigan subdivision had turned into a polar ice cap. My neighbor couldn’t fathom why an otherwise sane person was headed for the Far North.
Beer Talk
Sockeye Red IPA
Midnight Sun Brewing Co. Anchorage, AK Available: AK, OR, WA, CA, UT, MA Sockeye Red IPA, named for a species of salmon, is a Northwest-style India pale ale, brewed with Cascade and Centennial hops, and dry-hopped with additional Cascade hops. Alcohol by weight: 4.5 Color: 12 Bitterness: 70 Gravity: 1056
Deus
Brewery Bosteels Buggenhout, Belgium Imported by: Manneken-Brussel Imports, Inc. Austin, TX Available: WA, OR, CA, AR, AL, TX, CO, IL, WI, MN, IN, OH, MI, KY, VA, FL, MD, NY, MA, PA, NJ Dues is brewed in Belgium, but refined in the Champagne region using the traditional method, including the “remuage” (which detaches the yeast […]
Dick’s Cream Stout
Dick’s Brewing Co. Centralia, WA Available: WA This cream stout is brewed with a large portion of highly roasted black unmalted barley, with unmalted flaked barley to give the beer its creaminess. Alcohol by weight: 4.78 Color: n/a Bitterness: n/a Gravity: 1082
Saris Premium
Pivovar Saris Velky Saris, Slovak Republic Imported by: Euroconn, Inc. Cleveland, OH Available: CT, OH, AZ, PA, IL Beer has been brewed in the Saris region of east Slovakia since the Middle Ages and records of the Brewers’ Guild from 1506 expressly state that brewers in Saris maintain the right to brew from time immemorial. […]
Harpoon Abbey Ale
Harpoon Brewery Boston, MA Available: MA, VT This abbey-style beer is the second in the Harpoon 100 Barrel Series, a line of limited edition specialty beers. Each beer in the series will be created by a different brewer, who will be responsible for every stage, from developing the recipe to the final brewing process. Alcohol […]
Doryman’s Dark Ale
Pelican Pub & Brewery Pacific City, OR Available: OR Pelican’s version of an American brown ale is brewed with pale ale, caramel, chocolate and white wheat malt, and Magnum, Cascade and Mt. Hood hops. Alcohol by weight: 4.6 Color: 32 Bitterness: 42 Gravity: 1057
Hansa Pilsner
Hansa Borg Brewery Bergen, Norway Imported by: Hansa Beer Distributing Co. Arcadia, CA Available: CA Norway’s oldest beer laws, dating from about 1000 AD, dictated when and how much beer each household should brew. Norway also enacted a purity act similar to Germany’s Reinheitsgebot, stipulating that brewers use only malt, hops, yeast and water. The […]
Anheuser World Select
Anheuser-Busch St. Louis, MO Available: nationwide by January World Select, a continental-style pilsner, is a collaboration between Anheuser-Busch brewers in ten countries: Ireland, Spain, Italy, Korea, Japan, Canada, China, Argentina, UK and the United States, hence the tagline of “Ten Brewmasters. Four Continents. One Beer.” The beer is bottled at A-B’s Baldwinsville, NY brewery. Alcohol […]