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Lucky Bucket Brewing Company & Sòlas Distillery are hosting a “Speak Easy” Costume Party on April 17th from 8pm until 1am at their brewery located [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Episode 132 – In the Basement
Posted By John on March 20th, 2009
This week we tried a pair of beers with fair results.
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Beers of the Week
Beer: Basement Batch Pale Ale
Brewery: Choc Beer
Notes: Pine flavor in the taste, with low malt flavors. Some slight citrus in the finish. Decent beer.
| John: C | Brian: C- | Ryan: C | Overall Grade: |
C- |
| Marissa: D- | Anne: C+ |
Beer: Atlas IPA
Brewery: Marshall Brewing Company
Notes: Aroma of floral hops with malt undertones. It has a pleasant malt opener. Nice hop flavors of citrus and floral hit in the middle of the taste. Metallic taste in the finish. Overall very good.
| John: B- | Brian: C- | Ryan: B- | Overall Grade: |
B- |
| Marissa: C- | Anne: A- |
Do you have a suggestion for a beer we should try or any other comments? Send them to info@brewcast.net or call 402-817-0351 and leave us a voicemail.
Thanks for listening
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History of the Guinness Brewery
Posted By Ryan Cairns on March 13th, 2009
Guinness brewery has a very long and rich history. Because of this I will merely be scratching the surface of telling the breweries story and I encourage you to check out the companies web site. They have some pretty amazing history information on their site available for all to see. <click here>
Arthur Guinness leased a brewery in Leixlip in 1755 brewing ale. Later he put his younger brother in charge of this brewery and moved on to the St. James Gate Brewery, Dublin in 1759. Upon taking over the brewery he signed a 9,000 year lease. The first Guinness was exported May 19, 1769 when six and a half barrels of ale were shipped to England.
His sales of porter are listed on tax data from 1778 during a time shortly after many brewers in the Dublin area had experimented with brewing porters in the 1760’s. (more…)
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Episode 131 – The Guinness Challenge
Posted By John on March 13th, 2009
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day we started the Guinness challenge. We rounded up three versions of Guinness. Two of them were draught. One in bottle one in a can. They were supposed to be the same, but we found out they each were a bit different.
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Beers of the Week:
Beer: Guinness Draught (Bottle)
Brewery: Guinness Brewery at St James Gate in Dublin, Ireland
Notes: Thin and smooth. The malt hits in the end with tastes of chocolate and coffee. Ranked in #3 in the Guinness Challenge.
| John: B | Brian: B- | Ryan: B | Overall Grade: |
B- |
| Marissa: B- | Anne: C |
Beer: Guinness Draught (Can)
Brewery: Guinness Brewery at St James Gate in Dublin, Ireland
Notes: Creamer than the bottle. Formed a nice head. The malt in this version was more apparent in the front of the flavor. More flavors of coffe and chocolate. Ranked #2 in the Guinness Challange.
| John: B+ | Brian: B | Ryan: B+ | Overall Grade: |
B+ |
| Marissa: B | Anne: B |
Beer: Guinness Import Extra Stout
Brewery: Guinness Brewery New Brunswick, Canada
Notes: The clear winner. It is thinker and robust coffee flavors with playful chocolate flavors throughout. It was the clear winner of the Guinness Challange. Funny Canadian Guinness beats Irish Guinness. Who would have thought.
| John: A- | Brian: B+ | Ryan: A- | Overall Grade: |
B+ |
| Marissa: B+ | Anne: B+ |
Beer: Smithwicks Irish Ale
Brewery: Guinness Brewery at St. James Gate in Dublin Ireland
Notes: Great roasted malt flavor. Very enjoyable.
| John: B | Brian: B | Ryan: B+ | Overall Grade: |
B+ |
| Marissa: A | Anne: B- |
Do you have a suggestion for a beer we should try or any other comments? Send them to info@brewcast.net or call 402-817-0351 and leave us a voicemail.
Thanks for listening
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Episode 130 – Three Beers and a Mystery Drink
Posted By John on March 6th, 2009
Enjoying the fruits of Marissa’s travels we tried four beers from around the country this week.
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Beers of the Week
Beer: Purple Haze Raspberry infused wheat.
Brewery: Abita
Notes: This beer was a mystery to us. It had a nice raspberry aroma and when you drank it it was like drinking carbonated mineral water. It had no real flavors and no real defects. Finished like it was not even there. We nicknamed it the “raspberry ghost”.
| John: C | Brian: C | C+ |
| Marissa: C | Anne: B |
Beer: Censored Rich Copper Ale
Brewery: Laguanitas
Notes: Malty, hoppy beer overall ok. May have been a bit out of date.
| John: C | Brian: C | C+ |
| Marissa: B | Anne: C+ |
Beer: Black and Tan
Brewery: Yuenglings
Notes: Fair. This particular beer seemed a bit thin flavor and body. Not bad, but didn’t seem to gain anything by the blended flavors.
| John: C+ | Brian: C+ | C |
| Marissa: C | Anne: C- |
Beer: Kalamazoo Stout
Brewery: Bells Brewery
Notes: Bit thin. Taste and flavor more similar to a porter. Ours was oxidized, probably a bit old.
| John: C- | Brian: D+ | D+ |
| Marissa: D+ | Anne: D- |
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