Looking for a reason to drink good beer? Hate prohibition? Like the 30s? Then check out Lucky Bucket’s Speak Easy Party April 17th at the brewery. Here is the press release.
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 May, 2009
The Three Dark Norwegians – Podcast
Posted By John on May 15th, 2009
This week we sampled three dark beer from Norway. All three good solid dark beers. In the group was a double extreme imperial wheat stout.
As promised a far more inspiration song from Jonathan Coulton this week. We featured his song A Talk With George. Good stuff, puts things into perspective.
To listen to this episode click HERE and hit play. To download this episode right click the link and select save as from the menu.
Beers of the Week:
Beer: Porter
Brewery: Nøgne Ø (Aka: Nogne O) in Grimstad, Norway
Grade: A
Full Review
Beer: Dark Force
Brewery: HaandBryggeriet in Drammen, Norway
Grade: B+
Full Review
Beer: Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast
Brewery: Nøgne Ø (Aka: Nogne O) in Grimstad, Norway
Grade: A-
Full Review
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.
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Nogne O – Porter
Posted By John on May 15th, 2009
Beer: Porter
Brewery: Nøgne Ø (Aka: Nogne O) in Grimstad, Norway
Style: Porter
ABV: 7.0%
Reviewed: 12-May-2009 on Episode 140
Appearance: Deep brown, bordering on black. Dark tan head.
Aroma: Dark chocolate and coffee with a slight underlying prune aroma.
Taste: Dark choclate and coffee flavors. Sweet with a bitter sweet finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium body with a creamy mouthfeel and a slightly dry finish.
Aftertaste: Lingering dark choclate and coffee flavors.
Overall: A truly excellent beer that proves porter is an all year round beer.
Notes: This would pair well with a meal like steak grilled with pepper and garlic. It would transistion effortlessly to desert as well and finish off the night.
| John: A | Brian: A | Ryan: A | Overall Grade: |
A Excellent |
| Marissa: B+ | Anne: A |
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Nogne O – Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast
Posted By John on May 15th, 2009
Beer: Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast
Brewery: Nøgne Ø (Aka: Nogne O) in Grimstad, Norway
Style: Coffee stout
ABV: 7.5%
Reviewed: 12-May-2009 on Episode 140
Appearance: Black as night with a thick tan head
Aroma: Strong coffee, almost espresso aroma. It also had an underlying sweetness.
Taste: Coffee flavor were dominant with chocolate and prune undertones.
Mouthfeel: Medium carbonation with medium body and a creamy feel.
Aftertaste: Bitter coffee finish. Very similar to the finish on a good strong cup of coffee.
Overall: Great beer that delivers what it promises.
Notes: If I drank beer in the early morning, this is what I would want. It would also be a great complimant to a cheesecake or other rich desert.
| John: A- | Brian: B- | Ryan: A- | Overall Grade: |
A- Great |
| Marissa: A | Anne: B+ |
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Haandbryggeriet – Dark Force
Posted By John on May 15th, 2009
Beer: Dark Force
Brewery: Haandbryggeriet in Drammen, Norway
Style: Double extreme imperial wheat stout
ABV: 9.0%
Reviewed: 12-May-2009 on Episode 140
Appearance: Black with a dark tan head.
Aroma: Caramel, coffee, chocolate and a little alcohol.
Taste: Bitter coffee, chocolate. Even though the alcohol was perceptible in the aroma it was not in the taste.
Mouthfeel: Silky. We don’t know if it was a result of the wheat, but it was interesting.
Aftertaste: Bitter roasted coffee with a Dry finish.
Overall: Interesting beer that is its own style. Well done and we reccomend giving it a go.
Notes: Our bottle had a plug of sediment stopping up the bottle. As best we can tell it in no way comprimised the taste. Solid smooth beer. Great if you want a dark beer with a ligther body. Would go well with a slow cooked beef roast.
| John: B+ | Brian: B+ | Ryan: A- | Overall Grade: |
B+ Very Good |
| Marissa: B | Anne: B |
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Beer News For Episode 139
Posted By Brian Johnson on May 9th, 2009
Wisconsin Looking at Raising Beer Tax
There is a bill on the table in Wisconsin that would raise the beer tax from $2 an barrel to $10 a barrel. it would mean about 2 1/2 cents per bottle. Wisconsin has the 3rd lowest beer tax in the country. 1969 was the last time the taxed was raised.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/43995077.html
Avery to Release 16th Anniversary Beer
Avery is going to release a 16th anniversary beer. The beer is named Sixteen Saison. It comes in at 7.9% abv. They will be sold in 22 ounce bombers and released in 32 states.
http://beeradvocate.com/news/2014250
Boulder Beer to Release 30th Anniversary Beer
Boulder Beer is releasing a 30th anniversary an India Brown Ale named Flashback Anniversary Ale. It will be sold in 6 packs and draft through September. And can be found any where you can buy Boulder Beer.
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Going to Extremes – Podcast
Posted By John on May 8th, 2009
Episode 139
We thought it would be fun to go to extremes this week. Bringing in Lucky beer from Australia and Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo Double IPA. The contrast of a light lager and a double IPA seemed like a good idea and fun to try.
For music this week we went with a song that describes the luck we all sometimes have. We listened to Jonathan Coulton and his song Screwed. Life is good, but every once in a while this sums up the feeling. Next week we’ll listen to something more inspirational from Mr. Coulton.Thanks to the Podsafe Music Network for providing the tunes
To listen to this episode click HERE and hit play. To download this episode right click the link and select save as from the menu.
Beers of the Week:
Beer: Lucky Beer
Brewery: Lucky Drink Co. in Austrailia
Grade: B+
Full Review
Beer: Torpedo Extra IPA
Brewery:Sierra Nevada in Chico, California
Grade: B+
Full review
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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Luck Drink Co – Lucky Beer
Posted By John on May 8th, 2009
Beer: Lucky Beer
Brewery: Lucky Drink Co. in Australia
ABV: 4.8%
Reviewed: 06-May-09 on episode 140
Appearance: Straw color with a loose white head.
Aroma: Light malt with a slight aceldaldehyde trace.
Taste: Light malt flavors. Low noble hop taste in the finish. Trace aceldaldehyde, which in this case does not detract from the taste.
Mouthfeel: light body with a high level of carbonation. Kelvin described it as a champagne feel.
Aftertaste: Overall clean finish with a slight lingering malt sweetness
Overall: A well made light lager.
Notes: A surprisingly enjoyable light lager. We were skeptical of his beer. A light lager in a green bottle, albeit an admittedly spiffy one, is usually not a good thing.
| John: B+ | Brian: B+ | Ryan: A- | Overall Grade: |
B+ Very Good |
| Marissa: B | Anne: B | Kelvin: B |
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Sierra Nevada – Torpedo Extra IPA
Posted By John on May 8th, 2009
Beer: Torpedo Extra IPA
Brewery:Sierra Nevada in Chico, California
ABV: 7.2%
Reviewed:06-May-2009 on Episode 139
Appearance: Amber with dense white head.
Aroma: The hops aroma come through in the form of grapefruit, orange and floral aromas. There is also a slight sweet malt aroma underlying the hops.
Taste: A sweet malt flavor starts out the taste. Then the hops dominate the flavor. They produce tastes of grapefruit, orange, some floral tastes and a slight pine flavor.
Mouthfeel: Medium light body with medium carbonation.
Aftertaste: There is a lingering taste of citrus in the finish.
Overall: A solid brew with a great variety of hop flavors.
Notes: Nice hoppy beer. We strongly recommend it with spicy foods and a warm day, but it’s nice by itself as well.
| John: A- | Brian: A- | Ryan: A- | Overall Grade: |
B+ Very Good |
| Marissa: B- | Anne: B- | Kelvin: B |
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Beer News For Episode 138
Posted By Brian Johnson on May 7th, 2009
There was a nice write up about Nebraska Brewing Company in the Omaha World Herald . The article was written on the night of the bus ride to Beer Wars. It did mention that NBC was the third largest brewery in the state.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=3945&u_sid=10618444
Larry Bell founder of Bell’s brewery in Michigan is suing one of his distributors trying to block they from selling the rights to sell his beer to an AB InBev distributor.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/04/28/eccentric-brewmaster-takes-distribution-fight-to-court/
The Brewers Association released this years breweries per capita list. Nebraska ranks 15th with fifteen breweries for every 118,895 people. John and I ran down the list and could only come up with 11. If you count Granite City it would be 12.
http://beervana.blogspot.com/2009/04/breweries-per-capita.html
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Happy 100th To Shiner – Podcast
Posted By John on May 1st, 2009
The Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, Texas is celebrating its 100th year anniversary this year. To commemorate the event they released their aptly named 100 Commemorator brew and brought back the Kosmo’s Reserve Lager. Having had the opportunity to enjoy some of their beer in the past we thought we should give this pair a go.
If there is one song that represents our panel it is The Jedi Drinking Song by the Dust Rhinos. Mix a little Celtic style with Star Wars references and beer drinking and we’re good to go.
To listen to this episode click HERE and hit play. To download this episode right click the link and select save as from the menu. (more…)
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