tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-341943332024-03-17T17:31:49.126-04:00The Blog-O-RamaJohn Peddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00062482419412857588noreply@blogger.comBlogger1602125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34194333.post-5468621184404636962024-03-17T17:30:00.001-04:002024-03-17T17:30:49.801-04:00599. El Segundo Brewing Company (El Segundo, CA) - Steve Austin’s Broken Skull 3:16 IPA“Last fall, the good folks at Perrault Farms in Yakima Valley invited ESBC and Steve Austin up to sample their hops during their annual hop harvest. Steve was so blown away by them and their hops that it inspired him to make a new IPA. The hops in this beer were selected by Steve Austin himself. We hope you enjoy this beer as much as we do. Cheers!”
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Okay, then. It’s a light, crisp IPA that sort of doesn’t taste like it clocks in at 7.2% ABV. Maybe some melon up front, and a dry finish that slides toward slightly bitter as it warms. Not bad, but it doesn’t make my socks roll up and down.
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Very nice balance of citrus and tropical fruit, though I don’t get much of anything specific. Smooth and easy to drink, with just the barest hint of a dry finish. Very well done, but doesn’t seem to be in my wheelhouse.
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Amy ordered the Garden Pesto pizza, and I had an unsalted pretzel with mustard and the chips and dips. Her pizza was unevenly cooked, with the crust around the edge being way too hard and the crust in the middle being barely cooked—the classic sign of a packaged crust; but the pesto flavor was respectable. The pretzel was okay, but not especially interesting, served with what was clearly horseradish mustard out of a jar; and the chips were served with jarred salsa and something called “frontera ranch,” which is apparently their way of saying “ranch with hot sauce.”
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595. MashCraft Brewing (Indianapolis, IN) - Galactus
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“Named after the planet eating entity because of its big bold tropical flavors and slightly elevated ABV.”
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Prominent orange juice flavor up front, with a sweet, creamy mouthfeel that makes me think lactose. In the middle, it’s a pretty standard New England/milkshake IPA (though I don’t get any strong tropical flavors), and the finish is sharp—not dry or bitter, but sharp, with a strong taste of alcohol. It’s a little off-putting at first, but smooths out as it warms.
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596. MashCraft Brewing (Indianapolis, IN) - Jamaica Joe
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“Our MashCraft Red infused with creamy and caramely Jamaican Me Crazy coffee beans from local favorite Strange Brew.”
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Very light coffee aroma, with mild coffee flavor and a smooth caramel/red ale finish. Exactly as advertised, and well done; but it’s got nothing on Ryan’s coffee lager at Kismetic, which has strong coffee aroma and flavor, and a buttery shortbread finish.
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597. MashCraft Brewing (Indianapolis, IN) - Let it Burn
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“Take a smooth cream ale and hit it with some lemondrop peppers. What do you get? Ask Usher…”
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Powerful pepper flavor and strong heat on the first sip, with a pretty fast burn; but as it warms up, the smooth cream ale malt flavors make that more of a slow burn. The slight hint of lemon from the pepper is a nice touch.
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The peach is strong up front, but what comes up behind it is less clear—but pretty tasty. All of the sweet flavors mentioned in the description could be there, and they lead that peach opener into a nice, dry finish. Lingers a bit too sweet, but otherwise quite fine.
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And here is another style with which I have very little experience. The finish is right on the line between dry and bitter, and the rest of it is a little faint, but well made. I don’t always like every new beer I try, but I sometimes get the feeling that even the ones I don’t necessarily like (and I haven’t made up my mind on this one yet) are well made. This beer falls into that category—though I have no doubt that my lack of experience with the style is to some extent precluding me from forming an opinion.
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This one is pretty much exactly as advertised, and I suspect that the fact that I can’t come up with anything of my own to say about it means that I am not impressed—and yet I like the beer. What the hell is that? I get the bready, nutty, and roasty, but then I get a hint of vanilla, rather than floral notes. I don’t know much about this style, but I dig this one.
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Finally succeeded in carving out a time to get out to the Guggmann Haus taproom last Sunday, and brought home a couple of four-packs from the extensive selection in their cooler. I was impressed with the Great Day I had in the taproom, but I think the one I’m having today at home in my frosty mug might be even better. There are layered flavors of strone fruit up front and citrus on the back end, with a vague hint of pine sort of overseeing the whole thing. The pine retreats as the beer warms, but the dry finish from the malty backbone remains. Very fine.
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Ripe, smooth pineapple up front, which lingers and quite nicely complements a dry finish that dances right there at the edge of bitter without quite going over the line; and I would never have guessed that it clocks in at 8% ABV. It gets smoother as it warms up, and I may be crazy, but…there might just be a faint hint of coconut in there. Absolutely spectacular, but way too big to have more than one or two at a time.
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I know, I know…you’re thinking…well, shit dude, you have a Scarlet Lane <i>right there in your fucking neighborhood now</i>, and you haven’t posted a Scarlet Lane beer since before they opened where Black Acre used to be? (And it actually turns out that I have not, in fact, posted a Scarlet Lane joint since they opened in Irvington; I was guessing when I wrote that just now.) I’m torn on the new place…we like going there for lunch on Sunday after they get back from church, but I don’t like writing there as much as I liked writing there when it was Black Acre. (Also, they have yet to tap a single fucking keg of either Natural Liberty or Saucy Intruder.) Anyway…Jackson was up for it today, and when I saw that they had this one in cans, I added a four-pack to the tab and took some home. And…you know what… it’s a yummy oatmeal stout. I’m more into IPAs than anything else, but stouts have grown on me—especially oatmeal stouts. I don’t know if oats in the grain bill give the beer a smoother, creamier mouthfeel and flavor than standard barley, but that’s the way it tastes to me. This one, however, is just an oatmeal stout. There might be a faint whiff of the baking spices you might associate with a pumpkin ale; and I’m going to give it the benefit of the doubt and try a second one in a room-temperature mug before I hit <i>send</i> here, but I ain’t holding my breath, yo. (Maybe the Red Apple I’m going to burn on the porch between the two will change things, but I doubt it.) Alas, the second one is no more interesting than the first.
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And we saw those buffalo when we stopped at Buffalo Rock State Park on our trip to Illinois a couple of weeks ago. (Well, we saw one of them, anyway.) Which is neither here nor there, but being in that part of Illinois is how I managed to get hold of both this and the Kit Kupfer Amber. I don’t have much experience with Dunkelweizens, but this one seems…fine? Tastes more like a Hefeweizen than anything else, even if it is a little bit darker. The banana comes up a bit on the back end, and it’s fine; not great, but fine.
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Nice balance of pumpkin and spice flavors up front, with some lingering vanilla and caramel on the back end. Like most of Ryan’s beer, this one is flavorful and complex at the same that it’s light and drinkable.
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There’s definitely caramel in there, and it lingers both up front and on the back end. I think a hint of peach at the end would be interesting, but I’m not getting it. I’m usually not into Ambers, but this one was interesting.
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There’s a vague hint of spice and a vague hint of pumpkin up front, but neither is very deep. The finish is nice and dry, but between the two, there’s something shiny and vaguely off-putting that detracts from both. All the other Brew Link joints I’ve tried have been pretty solid; this one is disappointing.
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That malty backbone is pretty strong, imparting a bitter finish that somewhat mutes the flavors coming from the busy hop profile. It mellows and smooths as it warms up, remaining bitter, but loosing some flavor, especially from the Carahell malt. I was not initially impressed with this beer, but it’s definitely better when you let it breathe for a minute. I sort of get the idea that there might be some rye in there, but I don’t know enough about malts to know if <a href=https://tritonbrewing.com/rail-splitter-ipa/>any of the ones they mention on the website</a> might be rye. Definitely merits revisitng at some point in the future.
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If I said at some point before that one of these beers was the swan song for the dear, departed Indiana City Brewing Co., then I was perhaps speaking in haste. I’ve been hanging on to one of these bad boys, along with three cans of Black Acre stuff, since both of those breweries folded earlier this year. The 1-2 punch was somewhat traumatic; they were two of my favorite breweries in Indianapolis. But due to circumstances that shall perhaps be discussed later, I have decided to stop cellaring these last four cans of joy. And it turns out that I have never commented on this particular Indiana City brew, so…here we go. It’s both light (clocking in at only 5.5% ABV) and flavorful, and the lactose doesn’t cut much off of the citrus shine and mildly bitter finish. You won’t be surprised to hear that I love it, and that I wish I had more of them. I also wish that these cats could have hung on, and that maybe they will resurface someday, in premises with a manageable rent.
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I get grapes in various stages, from fresh to dried, and possibly some spice—but it’s just as likely that the spice is masked by the 11.9% ABV. It’s big and strong, and that ain’t necessarily bad; but it ain’t necessarily good, either. I really wanted to like these beers, but I didn’t. (And I sure as hell wish I hadn’t spent almost $150 getting them the hell across the border.)
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There’s just a hint of orange rind on the back end that gives it a dry finish that can’t quite be called bitter. The tropical flavors up front are somewhat muddled, and it does not drink remotely like it clocks in at 6.5% ABV. Not my favorite thing from Deschutes, but one of the more interesting.
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Strong grapefruit and pine up front when it’s cold, and some mid-range strawberry from the Strata as it warms. The bitter finish contrasts quite beautifully with the strawberry flavor, but the 9% ABV is too high for them to claim that it drinks easy. That said, it’s an excellent beer, and probably the best thing I’ve tried at Moontown.
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That rye is strong up front, and it mostly masks the other flavors; but it’s crisp and interesting, and it’s the best of the four Rush beers I recently acquired.
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Um. Orange up front while it’s cold, and then papaya up front as it warms. The finish isn’t quite bitter, but it does kind of linger on the palate. If they had not said they were shooting for West Coast-style, I would not have guessed it. It ain’t bad, but it ain’t quite what they’re selling, either.
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Yep…it’s a mango IPA, all right. The flavor is big up front, and it lingers well past the back end. It’s almost cloying, but they wisely build in a dry finish that gives the beer a nice balance. There might even be a hint of coconut in there.
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