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Featured Beers - November 2015
Featured Brewery & Beer |
The U.S. Microbrewed Beer Club
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The U.S. and International Variety Beer Club
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The Hop-Heads Beer Club
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The International Beer Club
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The Rare Beer Club®
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4 styles: 12 bottles |
4 styles: 12 bottles |
3 styles: 12 bottles |
2 styles: 12 bottles |
2 styles: 2, 4 or 6 btls |
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Birra Toccalmatto - Zona Cesarini | |||||||||||||||
The Bruery - 8 Maids-A-Milking | |||||||||||||||
Carlow Brewing Company - O’Hara’s Irish Pale Ale | |||||||||||||||
Carlow Brewing Company - O’Hara’s Irish Red | |||||||||||||||
Argus Brewery - Clyde’s Ale ESB | |||||||||||||||
Argus Brewery - Pegasus IPA | |||||||||||||||
River Horse Brewing Company - Special Ale | |||||||||||||||
River Horse Brewing Company - Oatmeal Milk Stout |
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- Style: English-style IPA
- ABV: 6.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 60
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Chinook, Cascade
- Malts: Canada 2-Row, Golden Promise, Briess L-20, TF Black
- Country: United States
Argus' IPA presents well in the glass: quite red in color with a head of tight-bubbled foam that drops lace as it recedes. As we expect from an IPA, there are a lot of fireworks on the nose. Luscious hops issue a delightfully fruity and floral aroma with some earthy undertones and unmistakable citrus notes. A robust caramel malt profile is apparent, lurking beneath. On the palate...wow, there's a lot of hops going on here. Thankfully Pegasus...
- Style: Irish Red Ale
- ABV: 4.3%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
- Serving Temperature: 43-48° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Country: Ireland
What a treat – a craft-brewed traditional Irish red ale from the Emerald Isle itself! Pouring a very deep red-amber with plenty of tight foam, this ale looks great in the glass. Big, prominent bread crust notes burst forth in the aroma, quite toasty indeed, bolstered by a touch of roast and cocoa powder, with impressions of earthy hops. On the palate, look for well-caramelized malts and those toasted bread notes to form the core, with a hint...
- Style: American Amber Ale
- ABV: 5.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 24
- Serving Temperature: 47-54° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Nugget, Cascade, Columbus
- Malts: Pilsen, Munich, Caramel 15, 60, and 80, Cara-Pilsen, Aromatic, Chocolate
- Country: United States
Pouring a very deep, rich, hazy, brownish-amber color, it’s quite dark for an amber ale and looks great topped by its robust head of lasting foam. On the nose, look for big notes of lush caramel malts, mild hay and toast, and a touch of graham cracker, all overlaid with earthy and floral hop overtones. In the flavor department, those toasty and slightly nutty caramel malts build a delicious core. Most of River Horse’s beers are bottled...
- Style: Extra Special Bitter
- ABV: 5.5%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 43
- Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Chinook, Brewer’s Gold
- Malts: Canada 2-Row, Golden Promise, Canada Wheat, Crystal 45, Roasted Barley
- Country: United States
Pouring a coppery amber hue capped with a good head of foam, Clyde’s Ale is quite bright on the nose with a good dose of grapefruit and lemon, along with a perfumed, floral character, all overlaying caramelized malts. There’s a lot of overlap and confusion among the various styles of English “bitters” and “pale ales”, with Extra Special Bitter (ESB) and English Pale Ale being interchangeable according to many English brewers. Certainly the...
- Style: Pale Ale
- ABV: 5.2%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 50
- Serving Temperature: 43-48° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Country: Ireland
Another good looking brew from Carlow, O’Hara’s Irish Pale Ale presents a beaming golden-copper hue topped by a head of foam which drops lace as it recedes. As we expect for the style, hops dominate the aroma. Brewed with a combination of Irish malts and European and American hop varieties including Amarillo and Cascade, and dry-hopped for good measure, this brew was actually a bit of a chameleon to us, offering slightly different aromas over...
- Style: Milk Stout
- ABV: 6.7%
- Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 22
- Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
- Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
- Hops: Golding, Hallertau
- Malts: Pilsen, Munich, Caramel 80, Chocolate, Black, Roasted Barley, Oats (and lactose)
- Country: United States
This winter seasonal beer pours an opaque black with a generous cap of brown foam. While there are plenty of black, roasty notes in the aroma, there’s a touch of sweet lactose which comes through to balance. On the palate, the malt core is well-constructed, delivering a nice amalgam of deep caramel, dark chocolate, and roasted malt, without the roast being too heavy-handed and veering off toward acrid astringency. This leaves room for the lactose (milk sugar), which is unfermentable, to add its characteristic sweetness. Oats...
- Style: Belgian-style Imperial Milk Stout
- ABV: 11.3%
- Serving Temperature: 46–54° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Snifter, or Burgundy Glass
- Country: United States
8 Maids-A-Milking pours deep chocolate-brown, topped by a rather impressive light-brown, creamy head that initially seems like it might stick around longer than it does. Beneath it: an impressively dense-looking, reasonably viscous beer, with modest lacing around the far edge. The aromas coming out of this beer are far broader than the “imperial milk stout” title may suggest, and we were actually quite surprised by how well this stuck...
- Style: Pacific-Style India Pale Ale
- ABV: 6.6%
- Serving Temperature: 50–57° F
- Suggested Glassware: Tulip, Nonic, or IPA Glass
- Country: Italy
The net effect is magical, and one of the smoothest-drinking IPAs we’ve crossed paths with in a while. We poured this into an IPA glass, showing a bright golden-orange color and a bit of haze, capped by a great-looking head: off-white, miniscule bubbles, lacing that coats like an icing. Bold-orange IPAs are always promising. The aromatics here cover a wide range of hop turf: lots of grassy and tropical top notes, opening up into mango and pine...
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