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All over the country do I tread for the September selections….
….from Texas to the East Coast and then back round to Portland we go. Which website description works the best for you?
You can access all of the 2010 recommendations on the Locate Better Beer Page
Another curve ball from Caldera. Was expecting a hop explosion and this is what I got…
Sounds good. Maybe not in the teeth of the summer, but I should let you decide from this description from the Sam Adams website: “Smooth, rich, and dark, with the robust flavor and creamy texture of chocolate.
To create Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock, we wanted to take the flavor beyond the taste of dark roasted malt. We started with a complex selection of carefully roasted malts combined with hand selected Noble hops from Bavaria. After using a centuries old brewing process, we slowly aged the beer on a bed of rare dark cocoa nibs from Felchlin®*. Known for their quality these wild cocoa nibs, harvested from the rainforest of Northern Bolivia, impart complex aromas and flavors of chocolate, honey, and vanilla in the beer.”
I was perusing the IPA list at the wonderful Tony’s Darts Away (which you should go to, RIGHT NOW!) and one of beers was the Coulter IPA from a brewery that I had never heard of before in Orange County.
Cismontane brews the El Modena Brown, Peninsular Pale, two versions of a coffee stout along with the aforementioned IPA.
They have been open since April of this year and deserve a look see from all of you OC and South Bay beer geeks as well as us Los Angeles folk.
address
29851 Aventura Suite D.
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
92688
Phone
(949) 888-BREW [2739]
Open
Thurday 2-8
Friday 2-8
Saturday 12-7
Sunday 12-5
from the print edition of the Los Angeles Times comes this little gem of an article. I love the last line.
Some websites are decidedly old school. The European Beer guide is one of those.
And that is not a bad thing. As long as you have a wealth of information then you can overcome some interesting color choices.
And this guide/website has loads of information. Check it out before your next trip abroad. You might find a great place to visit.
Check out this great post from Jay Brooks….The End of the World
Today I thank Belmont Station in Portland for stocking beer from Nebraska. Nebraska Brewing’s Melange a Trois…
That Belgian outpost in New York has a new Scottish inspired beer coming our way…
Pretty cool label outside. What’s inside, you ask? “This fine Ommegang ale uses heather tips and a wee bit of smoked malt to bring the taste and aroma of Scotland to the forefront.”
The name comes from a Scottish poem by Robert Burns, “An wil tak a cup o kyndnes yet, fir ald land syn.”
