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AleSmith YuleSmith Winter Holiday Ale
ALESMITH YULESMITH WINTER HOLIDAY ALE REVIEW Happy holidays beer fans! For this beer review, we take a look at an unusual take on a winter seasonal, AleSmith YuleSmith Winter Holiday Ale. WHAT IS A WINTER ALE? [dropcap]A[/dropcap]s the sun takes half days and the wind turns from refreshing to painful, man’s tastes change. Warm, thick,…
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De Proefbrouwerij Flanders Fred Collaborative Ale
DE PROEFBROUWERIJ FLANDERS FRED REVIEW Who is Alan Sprints? Hair of the Dog Brewing Company out of Portland Oregon makes some of the Pacific Northwest’s most delicious beers. Head brewer Alan Sprints brewed up one of those big beers, a massively flavorful American barleywine (they call it a golden strong ale) named Fred, and blended it with the guys at…
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Three Floyds Moloko Milk Stout
THREE FLOYDS MOLOKO MILK STOUT REVIEW WHAT IS A MILK STOUT? Milk stout, or “sweet stout”, is a variant of stout with a sweeter finish and thicker, creamy mouth-feel, generally from unfermentable milk sugar. Left Hand Milk Stout may be the best known American variant. One of the first milk stouts I recall tasting was from Willoughby Brewing Company at a beer tasting…
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The Bruery Oude Tart
Flanders Red ales are a favorite style, so I’ve been looking forward to our review of the award winning Oude Tart from The Bruery. But first we need to take a slight detour into the price of craft beer. Craft beer is, by its nature as a small batch product, expensive, when compared to Big Beer’s…
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Bell’s This One Goes To 11 Ale
When visiting San Diego earlier this year, a town known as perhaps America’s best beer city based on their invention and output of hugely hoppy IPAs, a surprise came to me. Visiting local bars, I always search for the common denominator between various establishments. Some places will all have the same video game in the corner, or…