Sierra Nevada

The Pale Ale is the BOTM (Beer of the Month) at the Atlanta Taco Mac stores this November. My Brother and I stopped in for a pint (+4) and some dinner.

Thinking of beer trips past

I remember just after moving to St. Joseph, MI the new family and I used to take day trips over to Chicago, IL where I was born so long ago in order to just take in a museum or just drive around the city in search of who-knows-what. It was sometime in the early 1990's and I think I stumbled onto the Goose Island Brewpub. We had some lunch and I had a beer, that's about all I remember. I vaguely do recall that maybe it was in a large warehouse looking place with just brick buildings all around up and down the street. Also maybe a large rolling on a track railroad car kind of doors.

Now I wish I had wrote more stuff down back then.

Week 9, Abita Abbey Ale Dubbel

Poured this from a 22oz bomber into a tulip glass, it has a copper hazy color and lots of off white head.

Smells of citrus and some malt evident, raisin and other similar fruits in the background. The taste is mostly malt and caramel. Very sweet with a sourness at finish.

The mouth is light but also somewhat syrupy at beginning, with a drier finish. This is a nice sipping beer but about average IMHO.

Week 8, Terrapin Side Project - 90 Shelling Scotch Ale

I poured this into a 16oz pint glass from a 22oz bottle. It was a dark redish brown with a tan or beige head about one finger tall that died quickly.

The aromas were of malt and caramel, very sweet. The main taste was also of caramel and malts with a sharp sourness at the finish.

The mouthfeel was thin but sharp with the sourness mentioned before. It's a bit heavy on the stomach and with the high gravity not a session beer, a typically normal scotch ale.

Guinness Boken

I love Guinness.

Week 7, Smuttynose Imperial Stout

Poured into a Goblet from a 22oz bottle. Solid black with a one half inch tan head, almost brown.

Aromas were of caramel and molassas. The main flavours were malt, burnt oak or grains and caramel.

The beer texture is silky and creamy as it crosses your tongue, with a slight bitterness at the end. I enjoyed drinking this one and the flavours became more pronounced as it warmed up.

Week 6, Bells Cherry Stout

Bought a six of this from the local grocery store one evening of shopping. I had visited this brewery in MI while living there back int he early 90's, at the time it was the Kalamazoo Brewing Company I believe.

Poured very dark out of a 12oz bottle some dark tan head a little less than a fingers worth. IT died quickly as you can see.

Aroma of some roasted malts.

I didn't think this beer had enough cherry flavor, it was very sour like a sour cherry

Didn't have the mouth feel of a Guinness, a lot thinner but a nice flavour all the same. Got more complex as it warmed up.