Reaching back a bit in my archive of notes to write up two beers in one of my all time favorite “non-styles,” the Saison. One is a very authentic modern take originating far from where the style was born, and another a kind of ancient take from right in the heart of the Senne valley.
Nogne [...]
Hopfenstark is a brewery 30 miles outside of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, which has built up a nice reputation amongst beer nerds for offering a wide selection of distinctive beers and sticking to their guns when it comes to style and flavor — basically, the brewer Fred does what he wants, and that’s just the [...]
I’ve written a bit about the Saison style on this blog, and it should be pretty obvious how fond I am of it — it’s also the first beer I chose to brew. It’s a flexible style, meant to be at the mercy of the seasons and the necessities of the place where it is [...]
I’ve been fully immersing myself in the beers of Belgium these days, and that means (a little bit more) than just drinking a lot of beers from that great country. I’ve been reading books, brewing styles, and doing research on what makes the beers of Belgium so distinct, and why they are so capable of [...]
It’s been almost 2 weeks since the American Craft Beer Festival up in Boston and I’m finally getting around to my little writeup. I’m going to keep it spare (since I’d never be able to accurately represent the 15-20 brews I got to try) and split up the good and the bad into 2 posts. [...]
Saturday was a scorcher here in Brooklyn and we celebrated the stifling arrival of Summer with a birthday barbecue bash at Brew Dog Ceeg’s house. As usual we smoked some pig parts for a good chunk of the day, during which no less than 15 different brews were sipped (or pounded) by the many attendees. [...]
The side of the bottle of Bam Biere, Jolly Pumpkin’s Farmhouse Ale, tells the story of a dog who got hit by a car and bounced right back. To me, this brew is a lot like that. I was lucky enough to grab a few bottles of this earlier in the year when [...]
