Cheers to Good Beers!
5. Yuengling- Its the easiest beer to drink at a bar!
4. Great Lakes -Christmas Ale
3. Flying Dog-In Heat Wheat
2. Magic Hat -Hocus Pocus variety pack
1. New Belgium Brewery-Ranger IPA
These are my favorites to date, hopefully as my beer journey continues my list will grow longer! Happy Drinking!
This Blog will be about the Great Lakes Brewing Companys seasonal Christmas Ale. I know it is way past Christmas but my boyfriend somehow found it over the weekend and its definalty worth writing about! It is one of the smoothest beers I have ever drank! It also resembles Magic Hat beers. I can’t wait to try more beer from Great Lakes! Also my next post will be my 5 fave beers. Thanks for reading everyone!
Just a quick thought, but who would of thought that it would be illegal to ship beer?! USPS, Fed-Ex, and UPS all refuse to ship the tasteful beers that aren’t available to us. Thoughts?
After my weekend trip to my favorite beer distributer, I came back with the Flying Dog variety pack. This was great choice because I got to sample 6 different beers, all with very clever names! The names are as great as the beers! Some examples being “Raging Bitch” which is their 20th anniversary brew, “In Heat Wheat” which is their hefeweizen, and “Road Dog” being their porter. Now my research techniques are going to be flawed this time being that I drank these beers on the way to a bachelorette party, so a good description is not going to happen this blog. Sorry, I will revisit this one in the future! But what I can say about Flying Dog is that I enjoyed every beer I drank! I would definatly recommend it and I promise a more detailed description will come as soon as I buy another variety pack!!
This blog will be about the different types/categories of beers such as ales, lagers etc. Hopefully this will be helpful in your beer tasting journeys!
Lager- this type of beer that is stored at lower temperatures using bottom fermented yeast for long periods of time. In Germany, the term is used for beers that are stored at lower temperatures and not neccessarily bottom fermented. Lagers include bocks, pilsners, with pale lager being the most widely drank beer in the world!
Ales-are brewed from top fermenting yeast and brewed from malting barley. The yeast ferments quickly giving it sweet or fruity taste.
Stout/Porter- This is a term that is interchangable and is usually given to beers that have a higher alcohol content. Their are many different types of stouts one of the most popular being an oatmeal stout.
Well the answer to that is not gettting drunk! If you check out your favorite breweries website, chances are many of them are doing summer tours, concerts and cookout type things all over the country! Flying Dog has a great list of things happening this summer if you live on the East Coast and are looking for a fun weekend trip! Just click on the link and check out their events calendar! New Belgium Brewery also has events going on all over the country. Magic Hat Brewing Company also has a Mardi Gras themed event that I’m sure would be very magical! Also don’t forget that breweries offer jobs!! Remember that they need not only beer tasters but marketers, accountants, and sales staff!! All of the breweries listed above have a job description page so if your interested check it out! So now you know that breweries can be good for something else besides getting drunk!
This blog will be about Mojo’s IPA. I know in my last blog I said that I would be writing about Flying Dog’s variety pack, but life kicked in and i realized that I would be very unproductive the next day if I tried the variety pack. So on to the Mojo… The color is a bright golden orange like most IPA’s. The beer is very hoppy and somewhat bitter.Compared to DogFish Head and the IPA at New Belgium I feel this was nothing special, but it was smooth and definatly drinkable. While I was not completley blown away by Mojo…I’m sure I would by it again. Next Blog will be the Flying Dog Variety Pack!!! Cheers!
During my spring break trip to Colorado, I decided to visit the New Belgium Brewing Company and take a guided tour. The tour was absolutly amazing! You learned not only how they brewed and bottled their famous beverages but you learned about their history and interesting facts about their employee owned company. The tour started off with a sample of their new Lips of Faith beer. Lips of Faith is their coined term for beer they are only brewing once. We were also instructed on how to properly drink the beer out of a wine glass. Yes a wine glass. When drinking craft brewed beers it is much like drinking wine, the color and all the flavors are to be savored and taken in. I never knew beer could be so many shades of beautiful colors! But anyways a good swirl and a sniff of the beer before drinking it is neccessary to enjoy all of the flavors it has to offer. Next we moved on to the bottling plant where we not only saw how they bottle the beer but we also found out they are a very green company. They recycle and donate by-products that are usable to local farmers. The company also is employee owned. At an employees one year anniversary they are given their share of the company and a New Belgium bike, for which the company is named. I also learned that many people refer to their most famous beer as Flat Tire, however it really called Fat Tire. After learning all these interesting facts we were then instructed to slide down a windy slide to get to the next part of the brewery. Everyone from the 21 year olds to the 60 year old man on our tour went down the slide! After touring this brewery I have fallen in love with their beers!. They are delightfully good and there is a beer for every taste. Their India Pale Ale is some of the best I have ever tasted and their Sunshine Wheat really does taste like summer! Any one who has the chance should definatly tour the brewery and absolutley try any of their beers! Their website is also hilarious and definatly worth checking out! My next Blog will be about Mojo India Pale Ale and Flying Dog variety pack! Any beer suggestions are welcome! Happy Drinking!
After a week of pondering what to write a class blog on, I was still clueless and dreading the project. I knew it had to be something that I liked or enjoyed or I would hate doing it. One night on spring break while I was enjoying the brews I was having at the New Belgium Brewing Company a somewhat drunken idea popped into my head….I’m going to blog about Craft breweries/microbreweries! I love beer so it seemed perfect! So my grand idea finally came and I’ve decided to test test and analyze a different beer each weekend and then blog about it! My next blog will be about New Belgium Brewing Company since it inspired my idea. Check back next week for my details on the beer and the tour!!
April 8, 2010
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