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Stone Brewery’s Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale

Ricky — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:48:43 +0000

Daniel and I took a trip to California to do a special focusing on Stone Brewing and a large selection of their beers. You can see the many photos from the trip on our flickr website. This was our 3rd beer of the night and we saved one of the bests for last.

Stones Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale started as Stone 11th Anniversary Ale. People loved the Ale so much that they decided to remake the beer and bring it back.

The beer pours a dark brown almost black color. Through the thinner parts you can see a brownish red tint to the beer. There was a large amount of head (roughly 3 fingers) that was creamy mellow tan with a foamy texture. The head sat still when I swirled the glass but the bubbles faded quickly.

The smell was nothing like I expected from such a dark ale. I mostly smelled hops and didn’t want to wait for the head to dissipate to open up the aromas. It had a very citrus grapefruit like smell with a tiny hint of sweetness.

The taste was another shocking wave of deliciousness. It starts off with the alcohol making it warm and inviting but not overpowering. It was very rich and malty, the bitterness made this a very interesting experience for your senses. It’s hard to describe but the beer just tastes exceptional. For those of you that think higher alcohol complex beers are hard to drink, you should try this one. Your brain will be questioning if you are enjoying an IPA, a stout, or some type of strong ale.

Great job with this Stone Brewing, we hope you re-produce many of your limited release beers for us Stone Brewery lovers!

Sierra Nevada Dogfish Head Collaboration Called Life and Limb

Ricky — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:47:47 +0000

This is the type of collaboration beer your mouth has dreamed about! Dogfish Head has always been stepping up as an extreme brewery. They have done collaboration beers with many many breweries and every one has turned out superb. Dogfish Head mostly produces their beers on a reasonably small scale, very complex beers compared to the giants in the industry. On the other hand, Sierra Nevada has always produced excellent beers that have survived on a large scale competing with the large fizzy yellow beer champs. Over a few beers (as the story go’s), Calagione (Dogfish Heads owner) suggested they create a collaboration beer. They would only use the products from their family farms and produce something truly unique.

The life and limb beer uses a blend of house yeasts, maple syrup and birch syrup (probably a first for beer). Because the life & limb is only using family products and both breweries have very strong heritage to their farms and families they decided to name the beer Life and Limb. They have dedicated the beer to all the beer drinkers, brewers, enthusiasts, etc. that risk life & limb to help grow the craft brewing community. That is what this site is all about!

Life and Limb is a 10% ABV strong, dark beer. It should be pitch black and I assume it will be very rich and slightly sweet from the syrups. Both breweries make exceptional beers and I am sure this will be just as good as everything else they have made if not even better.

The beer is now available on draft and they are shipping the bombers throughout the country. It will probably somewhat hard to find. If you have a Bevmo or Total Wine, etc you should probably be able to pick it up.

While making this they came up with a very very small batch of another beer titled Limb and Life. It’s a “small beer” and will be difficult to find. It will only be available on draft so if you can find this, let us know where you found it!

*Picture is courtesy of their website life-limb.com

2nd Annual Phoenix Brew Party

Daniel Espinoza — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:42:39 +0000

The PHX Brew Party is celebrating its 2nd Anniversary Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 7PM at a Historic Bungalow in Down Town Phoenix. The Brew Party was created to promote and create a community around the art of Home brewing where Local brewers are welcome to bring out there best Home Brews for a chance to win one of the coveted awards that the PHX brew party awards to the best of the best. This fun filled night will be filled with entertainment in the form of local DJ’s, Beer games and Classic beer movies will be played at the 1920′s Phoenix Bungalow.

The Event is free but donations are encouraged to help local non-profit http://www.communitasphx.org/

Featured Beers:

India Cream Ale (Monk Rawk Brewing)
BushBarrel Porter (Monk Rawk Brewing)
Beautiful Bitter (Monk Rawk Brewing)
Deutscher Frühstück Bier (Wild Card BrewHouse)
Smudge Dog Memorial Oatmeal Stout(Bell Road Brewery)
Black Forest Ale (Jimbo Baggins Brewing)
Shire Summer Wheat (Jimbo Baggins Brewing)
Ryeteous Red Ale (Beerological Design)
Stranrar Ale (Salem’s Brew)
Tobi Dog India Pale Ale (Michael Pollack)
Grenada Hop Grenade (DCD Ales)
Indian Summer Oktoberfest(Mercury/Rush Brewing)
Black-Eye PA (No Limits Brewing)
Last Minute Wheat (Worm Farm Brewing)

Featured DJ’s:

Dehga
Big D
Djentrification
Deepfreq

For directions go here: http://localbrewery.com/x/s

The Big Pour in Scottsdale AZ

Ricky — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:20:53 +0000

Last night we went to the Big Pour in Scottsdale at the waterfront. We came in from the side near the mall and thought the event was smaller than it really is. Make sure you walk down by the bands, the field, etc. There are hundreds of beers and I got to try several that I have never had before. You can see our “Passports” as we took a tour of the event. Each of us tried different beers to make sure we could enjoy as many variations as possible.

First we started off at the field where all the food vendors and bathrooms are. There are tons of games like beer pong, pool, bag toss, etc. We made sure to take some time between drinks and enjoy the activities. The girls from Dos Equis pointed out a girl that was so drunk she fell out of a port-o-potty so we made sure we didn’t get to that level.

The beers I tried were:

Cream Ale
Four Peaks Pitchfork
Bitch Creek
Avery IPA
BeerBakers
Dales Pale Ale
Santa Fe Pale Ale
Guiness

Not all the beers I tried were new. We had a group of 3 and we each tasted eachothers to get the largest variety possible. My favorite was probably Four Peaks Pitchfork and Bitch Creek. Four Peaks Pitchfork was very drinkable and tasted like a mix of their 8th Street Ale and the Raj IPA. Bitch Creek was a very well balanced ESB.

We’ll see you at the next event!

- LocalBrewery.com

DRAFT Magazines BIG POUR In Scottsdale AZ

Ricky — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:20:39 +0000

DRAFT Magazine is having their international beer tasting event this Thursday (Nov-12th) – Saturday (Nov-14th) at the Scottsdale Waterfront and SouthBridge!

We went to this event (and several others) last year and it is a blast! There will be thousands of beer fans ranging from connoisseur to college bing drinker. The one thing everyone has in common… They LOVE beer!

There will be hundreds of beers and even some beers that have NEVER been served in Arizona before. If you are a true beer lover, make sure you check it out!

Here is a list of a few beers that will be at the event:

Thursday Green Beer Area

Green Flash Hop-less
Ska Hoperation
Thursday VIP area
Bells Bourbon Barrel aged Double cream stout
Alpine Brewing Pure Hoppiness
Alpine Brewing Willy
Alpine Brewing Captains Stout
Pizza Port/Carlsbad Twerp
Pizza Port/Carlsbad Good Grief Charlie Brown
Silly Saison
Ninkasi Total Domination IPA
Ninkasi Believer Double Red
Maui Blond
Maui IPA
Full Sail Lumplin Fresh Hop
Full Sail Keelhauler
Deschutes Hop Trip
Deschutes Red Chair
Dogfish Palo Santo

Some of the beers being poured Friday

Alpine Brewing Willy
Alpine Brewing Duet
Alpine Brewing Captains Stout
Alpine Brewing Alpine Ale
Pizza Port/Carlsbad Chronic
Ninkasi Total Domination IPA
Ninkasi Radiant
Maui IPA
Maui Coconut Porter
Great Divide Oak Barrel aged Yeti
Full Sail Lumplin Fresh Hop
Full Sail Keelhauler
Deschutes Hop Trip
Deschutes Red Chair
Dogfish Palo Santo

Here is a sampling of some of the beers available in the VIP area of the main event:

Green Flash Hop-less
Alpine Brewing Pure Hoppiness
Alpine Brewing Willy
Alpine Brewing Duet
Alpine Brewing Captains Stout
Alpine Brewing Alpine Ale
Pizza Port/Carlsbad Twerp
Pizza Port/Carlsbad Chronic
Pizza Port/Carlsbad Good Grief Charlie Brown
Pizza Port/Carlsbad Plant to Pint Freshhop
Dogfish Palo Santo
Deschutes Red Chair
Deschutes Hop Trip
Full Sail Keelhauler
Full Sail Lumplin Fresh Hop
Affligem Triple Noel (Keg)
Great Divide Oak Barrel Aged Yeti (Keg)
Alesmith Grand Cru
Anderson Valley Winter Soltice
Bear Republic Racer 5
Eel River Acai Berry
Moylans White Xmas
Moylans Hopsickle
Avery Czar (Keg)
Avery Collaboration
Nogne-O Dogges Sahti
Fantome Noel
Mahrs Christmas
Cantillon Kreik
Sint Peters XMAS Zinnebeer
Schneider Brooklyn Hopfen Weiss
Redstone Nectar of the hops
Augustijn (Keg)
Petras Aged Pale
Blanche Des Moines
Scaldis Noel
Triple Karmeliet
Meantime Coffee Porter
Kwak (Keg)
Urthel Hopit
Sinnebrychoffs Porter
JW Lees Harvest Port
Oude Beersel Kreik
St Bernardus Abt 12
Silly Scotch
Silly Saison- (Keg)
Petrus Winter Ale
DeDolle Teve
Hebrew R.I.P.A.
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
Breckenridge 471 Small Batch IPA
Hitachino Nest White
Harviestoun Ola Dubh 12
Flying Dog Wild Weizen
Great Divide Hoss
Lefthand Smoke Jumper
Oskar Blues TenFidy (cans)
Ska Modus Hoperandi (cans)
Ska Euphoria (cans)
Port Brewing Santas Little Helper
Lost Abbey Gift of the Magi
Lakefront Pumpkin (Keg)
Papago Oude Zuipers
Sonoran Cordeilla Blanca
McChouffe
Cucapa Barleywine
Cucapa Chucacabras (cans)
Steigl Pils
Bruery Saison Rue
New Belgium LaFolie
New Belgium Transatlantic Kreik

Most Expensive Beer Bottle Recovered From Hindenburg Ashes

Ricky — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:41:21 +0000

A bottle of beer was recovered in New Jersey by a firefighter in 1937 at the site of the Hindenburg fire.

The beer bottle is expected to bring in up to $8,000 this weekend at auction. The beer is Lowenbrau, over 62 years old and the beer inside is undrinkable.

“It is the most valuable bottle of beer ever sold,” said Aldridge of the British auction house Henry Aldridge & Sons. “You wouldn’t want to drink it – it is probably quite putrid to taste”