Spiegelau just released a new glass for wheat beers. I don’t drink a lot of wheat beers but I love the look of the glass, I find it downright adorable.
Tag: beer
I passed the Cicerone Certified Beer Server test today.
I got 55 of 60 questions correct but did have to study a bit, I doubt I’d have passed without studying. There’s a surprising number of questions about Pilsners.
On to the Certified Cicerone test…
Wow, this is quite a beer. I opened it because it was in a 12 oz bottle and I started watching Thursday Night Football. The first sip was incredible. I googled it and found this:
The beer is a blend of two Deschutes beers, The Stoic and The Dissident, as well as two Hair of the Dog beers, Fred and Adam. All four were brewed at Deschutes’ facility in Bend in March of 2010. All four were then aged in a variety of wooden barrels for two years including Rye Whiskey, Cognac, Sherry, Pinot Noir, Bourbon, used American Oak which previously held beer, new American Oak, and new Oregon Oak.
This is just fantastic and a beer that should be drank very slowly with dinner or a movie, not a Saints vs Falcons game on Thursday night. Oh well, I’ll take responsibility for my mistake and drink it.
Having Elysian’s 11th Beer of the Apocalypse: Mortis, a sour persimmon ale. We picked it up on Monday. Probably my favorite label of the series.
They say its fermented with only Brettanomyces so I was expecting a very sour beer. The sourness is only on the front end. I don’t taste any persimmon but that’s likely because I don’t know what a persimmon tastes like.
With Hudson’s help, I installed two taps on my keezer so I can sample beers while they’re carbonating and aging. They’re Perlick 525SS faucets and I used White Labs vials filled with Crystal 80 grain for handles.
