Sunday, January 16, 2011
New Reviews yet to be Posted
Bruery Three French Hens - 5 glasses
Troeg's Mad Elf - 2 glasses (an upgrade)
Sierra Nevada Hoptimum - 5 glasses
Clipper City Heavy Seas Loose Canon - 4 glasses (a downgrade)
Steenberge Piraat - 4 glasses
Ommegang BPA - 3 glasses
BFM Brasserie Des Franches-Montagnes Abbaye De Saint Bon-Chien - 7 glasses
Steenberge Bruegel - 3 glasses
Steenberge Bornem Triple - 4 glasses
Hanssens Lambic Experimental Cassis - 3 glasses
Highlands Black Mocha Stout - 4 glasses
Lagunitas Little Sumpin' Sumpin' - 5 glasses
Steenberge Bornem Double - 4 glasses
Ballast Point Sculpin IPA - 5 glasses
Highlands Oatmeal Porter - 4 glasses
Steenberge Augustiin - 3 glasses
Alesmith Old Numskull - 5 glasses
Avery Joe's - 4 glasses
Move Chimnay to 6
Move Sculpin to 6
I have fallen behind
Beers sorted by Brewer
* Alesmith * (Speedway Stout)
* Allagash * (Dubbel, Tripel Reserve, White)
* Anderson Valley * (Winter Solstice)
* Anheuser-Busch * (Budweiser)
* Avery * (Anniversary Ale - Sixeen, Maharaja, Old Jubulation)
* Ayinger * (Oktober Fest-Märzen)
* Bass * (Pale Ale)
* Bavik * (Petrus Aged Pale Ale)
* Bear Republic * (Racer 5)
* Belhaven * (Twisted Thistle IPA)
* Bells * (Batch 9000, Expedition Stout, Oarsman, Oberon, Octoberfest, Sparkling Ale, Third Coast Old Ale, Two Hearted Ale)
* Bitburger * (Premium Pils)
* Bockor * (Cuvee des Jacobins Rouge)
* Blue and Gray * (Elwood Thompson Fresh Farmhouse Ale)
* Bluegrass * (Jefferson's Reserve Bourbon Barrel Stout)
* Blue Mountain * (Big D.I.P.A., Full Nelson, Rockfish Wheat)
* Boon * (Mariage Parfait)
* Bostells * (Karmeliet)
* Boulevard * (Saison - Brett)
* Brasserie Dieu du Ciel * (Peche Mortel)
* Brooklyn * (Black Chocolate Stout, Monster Ale, Oktoberfest)
* Bruery * (Hottenroth Berliner Weisse, Saison Rue)
* Cantillon * (Gueuze, Rose de Gambrinus, Vigneronne)
* Chimay * (Grand Reserve (Blue), Tripel)
* Clipper City * (Heavy Seas Loose Canon)
* d'Achouffe * (La Chouffe, N'Ice Chouffe)
* de Dolle * (Ara Bier, Dulle Teve, Oerbier Reserva, Stille Nacht)
* De Proef * (Les Deux Brasseurs, Pinhead)
* Dogfish Head * (60 Minute IPA, 90 Minute IPA, 120 Minute IPA, World Wide Stout)
* Drie Fonteine * (Oude Geuze)
* Duck-Rabbit * (Porter)
* Dupont * (Avec Les Bons Voeux, Saison)
* Duvel * (Duvel)
* Fantôme * (Saison)
* Floreffe * (Prima Melior)
* Flying Dog * (Gonzo, In Heat Wheat, Raging Bitch, Snake Dog IPA, Whiskey-Barrel Aged Gonzo)
* Founders * (Breakfast Stout, Imperial Stout, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Porter, Red's Rye PA)
* Fullers * (Vintage Ale)
* Girardin * (Gueuze 1882 Black Label)
* Goose Island * (312 Urban Wheat Ale, Stockyard Oatmeal Stout)
* Great Divide * (Hibernation Ale / Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout / Titan IPA / Yeti Imperial Stout)
* Green Flash * (Imperial IPA)
* Guinness * (Foreign Extra Stout)
* Hanssens * (Oude Gueuze / Oude Kriek)
* Hoegaarden * (Original White Ale)
* Huyghe * (Delirium Nocturum)
* Koningshoeven * (Tripel)
* Lagunitas * (Brown Sugga' (cask), Cappuccino Stout, IPA, Undercover Investigator Shut-Down Ale)
* Leffe * (Blonde)
* Left Hand * (Polestar Pilsner)
* Legend * (Brown Ale, Golden Ale, Octoberfest)
* Linemans * (Framboise)
* J. W. Lees * (Harvest Ale, Harvest Ale aged in Calvados casks)
* Magic Hat * (Vinyl)
* Modelo * (Negra Modelo)
New Belgium: Mothership Wit
New Holland: Golden Cap
North Coast: ACME California IPA, Blue Star Wheat Ale, Old #38 Stout, Old Rasputin, Red Seal Ale
Old Dominion: Millennium, Oak Barrel Stout
Oskar Blues: Dale's Pale Ale, Gordon, TEN FIDY
*Ommegang* (Abbey Ale, Biere de Mars, Hennepin, Ommegeddon, Rare Vos, Three Philosophers, Tripel Perfection)
Orval: Orval
Oud Beersel: Kriek, Oude Geuze Vieille
Pabst: Blue Ribbon
Paulaner: Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrub, Salvator
Peroni: Nastro Azzurro
Pilsner: Urquell
Port: Old Viscosity
Rogue: Chocolate Stout, Shakespeare Stout
Russian River: Santification, Temptation
*Samuel Adams* (Boston Lager, Noble Pils, Octoberfest)
Samuel Smith: Oatmeal Stout, Pure Brewed Lager
Schneider: Aventinus, Aventinus Weizen Eisbock, Weisse
Sierra Nevada - Bigfoot / Celebration / ESB / Kellerweis / Northern Hemisphere Harvest Ale / Pale Ale / Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale, Stout / Summerfest / Torpedo Extra IPA /
Sinebrychoff: Porter
Smisje: Calva Reserva
Smuttynose: Baltic Porter, "Finest Kind" IPA, Robust Porter
Southampton: Biere de Garde, Saison Deluxe
Southern Tier - 2 x IPA / IPA / Unearthly /
St. Bernardus: Abt 12, Prior 8, Tripel, Witbier
St. George: IPA, Summer Ale
Starr Hill: Dark Starr Stout, (The) Gift, Jumo Lager, (The) Love, Northern Lights
Steenberge: Gulden Draak, Maerfant Damse
Stone: 13th Anniversary, Arrogant Bastard, Double Bastard, Imperial Russian Stout, Levitation Ale, Old Ruffian, Ruination
Stoudts: Scarlette Lady
Strubbe: Ichtegem's Grand Cru
Terrapin: Sunray Wheat Ale
Thirsty Dog: Old Leghumper, Siberian Night
Three Floyds: Gumballhead, Pride and Joy
*Trader Joe's* (2009 Vintage Ale, 2010 Vintage Ale, Bavarian Style Hefeweizen, Joseph Brau Dunkelweizen, Joseph Brau Oktoberfest)
Trappistes Rochefort: 6, 8, 10
Tröegs: Nugget Nectar
Tuppers: Keller Pils
Tyskie: Gronie
Unibroue: La Fin du Monde, Maudite, Trois Pistoles
Urthel: Hop-It, Saisonnière
Victory: Baltic Thunder, Old Horizontal, Prima Pils
Weihenstephaner: 1809, Hefeweissbier, Vitus
Westmalle: Tripel
Weyerbacher: Twelve
Widmer: Hefeweizen
Yuengling: Black and Tan, Traditional Lager
Stille Nacht
Brewer: de Dolle Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Tasting notes: (1012) Bottled 2008, in my cellar for 1 yr 4 mn since 0908. Where is the sugar? Fruity with orange zest and funk. Downgraded from 7. A bad bottle? (0811) Marvelous mix of orange zest, spices, alcohol, candy sugar, and funk. Bottle in 2006. Upgraded from 5. Initially put down 6 but could not get the beer out of my mind. (0712) A 2006 bottle. Spicy sour oranges (tangerine?) w/ an alcohol blast. Not as sweet as I remembered. Downgraded from 6. (0610) A glass at Mekong. Sweet, spices, and alcohol. Reminded me of Samichlaus, but better. Click here for a previous review.
Previous ratings: 6, 5, 7 glasses
Rating: 5 glasses
Vintage Ale 2010
Tripel Perfection
Tripel Reserve
Brewer: Allagash Style: Tripel
Tasting notes: (1012) A bottle @ LeMaire. Fruity, spicy, with a tiche of dry funk. Complex. Upgraded from 4 glasses and thought about 6. (1008) Fruity and nice w/ a touch of triple sour dryness. 0705: Dry, sour, grapefruit hops, with hints of lemon and citrus.. Downgraded from 5/8. ???: My first Belgian style ale and still one of my favorites. Fruity and nice. You spend half the bottle trying to identify the flavors and then the 9.0% ABV hits you.
Top 100: 29 December 2005
Previous ratings: 5, then 4 glasses
Rating: 5 glasses
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Old Jubulation
Style: Winter Warmer
Tasting notes: (1012) A spicy brown ale. It tastes like Christmas. Downgraded from 5 glasses. (1011) A hoppy brown ale? A subdued Arrogant Bastard? Strong Ale might be the better classification The brewer calls it English Strong Ale. (0801) A good brown ale? (0801) Big caramel malt with a spicy finish. (0801) A Brown Ale / Stout? Thinking about a 6 and buying another 6-pack. (0801) Burnt toffee. Quaffable and sippable. Very nice.
Previous ratings: 5 glasses
Rating: 4 glasses
