Iron Thistle Scottish Ale pours slightly hazy dark ruby red/brown color with a single finger fairly dense head. This dense head is light khaki with good retention. This reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big caramel, brown
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Orange Show from Saint Arnold
Continuing my beers of Texas series this week I am trying Orange Show from Saint Arnold Brewing Company in Houston Texas. Orange Show is a blonde ale brewed with almost 2,300 pounds of blood oranges. These are puréed and for each batch. This works out to about half-pound of purée per gallon of beer. A strong
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The Beers of Texas Part 13
This is another installment of my series describing beers of Texas. I am looking at beers brewed and born here in the Lone Star State. Brewed at HopFusion Ale works in Fort Worth, TX Feisty Blonde is a bronze golden ale. This beer has deeply aromatic orange blossom honey and the flavor of pure Mexican
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The Beers of Texas Part 7 – Saint Arnold Amber Ale
Saint Arnold Brewery’s Amber Ale is a crisp refreshing beer. It is a full-flavored ale with a pleasant caramel character that is derived from brewing with a specialty Caravienne malt. The rich body is evident when you pour the beer and it forms a nice medium head in the mug. A complex aroma of hops
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Four Beers from Boulevard Brewing Company
A couple weeks ago I tasted four beers I got in a sampler pack at our local mega mart (if you follow me on Instagram @chuck006 you know this already). This pack from Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City. The four beer are the 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat, Milk Stout, Pale Ale and Rosemary IPA. This
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La Rubia Blonde Ale from Wynwood Brewing Company
Wynwood uses only premium products in all of their beers. They procure the best malts from the US and use them as the base malt and mobile them with British and German Malts to create their caramel malts. They seek the finest hops from the US, England, Germany, New Zealand and Czech Republic. Wynwood puts
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Devil’s Backbone from Real Ale Brewing Company
This Belgian style beer has a light golden color but do not let that fool you, with an 8.10% alcohol content it packs a kick. This ale uses spicy hops and Belgian yeast to create and distinct and unique aroma and taste. Despite the alcohol content this beer is not heavy. Real Ale is obviously
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Sum’R Sumer Ale
This ale from Unita Brewing Company in Salt Lake City Utah. This beer leads with the citrus flavors of oranges and lemons. This combination of flavors come from the unique hops used in the brewing process. The Sorachr Hops come from Japan and are balanced with light malts to produce a fresh crisp beer.
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Lost Cove American Pale Ale and Lowes Food’s Beer Den.
Our local Lowes Food Store just completed a major remodel. In this new remodel store is a Lowes food Beer Den where you can get advice on beer and sample several selections on tap. Last Saturday was the first chance I had to give it a try. This is the first grocery store in our
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