Firkin Thursday
This week's firkin will be Double Dog IPA from Flying Dog in Frederick, Maryland. Given its high ABV of 11.5%, Kristine will be serving it straight-up or as a delicious shandy mixed with lemonade. A sure-fire way to beat the heat. In the Upstairs Bar starting at 6:00 pm.
June 26 (Bloomberg) -- In June 2008, U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John deJongh Jr. agreed to give London-based Diageo Plc billions of dollars in tax incentives to move its production of Captain Morgan rum from one U.S. island -- Puerto Rico -- to another, namely St. Croix.
DeJongh says he had no idea his deal would help make the world’s largest liquor distiller the most unlikely beneficiary of the emergency Troubled Asset Relief Program approved by Congress just four months later.
Today, as two 56-foot-high (17-meter-high) tanks for holding fermenting molasses will soon rise from the ground on the Caribbean island of St. Croix, the extent to which dozens of nonbank companies benefited from last October’s emergency financial rescue plan is just beginning to come to light.
Beer Style: Oak Aged English Strong Ale
Hop Variety: Columbus, Fuggels
Malt Variety: Two-row barley, caramel 150L
OG: 1.140 ABV: 14.5 IBUs: 41
Color: Copper
Samael’s Ale is a super-caramelly, oak aged English-style strong ale. Perhaps the least hoppy (sacrilege here at Avery!!) beer we’ve brewed, to accentuate the malt. The oak is very apparent in this rich and high gravity ale, adding additional depth and complexity with a woody and cask-like nose and a pronounced vanilla flavor on the palate. Notes for 2007 - With the addition of an additional roasted malt, Samael's now delivers subtle bitterness to add balance to the natural sweetness.
Duvel Green is single-fermented and filtered, where Duvel is fermented twice (second time in the bottle, both using the same yeast, we were told), and it comes in at a reduced 6.8% ABV. It is, however, brewed with that same yeast, same Styrian Golding and Saaz hops, and the same pilsner malt as the original.
New on the beer engine today is the Rustic Red Ale aged with French Oak. The Oak imparts the soft, warm flavors of coconut and vanilla to this otherwise earthy Biere-de-Garde style ale. Don't forget that Tuesday night is cask ale night at The Pratt Street Ale House, all 3 of our cask conditioned ales are $3 pints from 5pm until close.
It's officially summertime and what better way to celebrate than beer and baseball at the Baysox Baseball Stadium! On Wednesday, July 8th, come enjoy three hours of our featured summer beers, including Samuel Adams, Blackberry Witbier, Honey Moon Summer Ale by Blue Moon, Otter Creek Summer Ale, Blackfin Fin Pale Ale, and HOP-OCALYPSE India Pale Ale while watching the Baysox (Class AA Affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles) take on the Harrisburg Senators (Class AA Affiliate of the Washington Nationals) from our exclusive luxury suite level restaurant. Come relax and enjoy a two hour all-you-can-eat refreshing summer spread, for the price of $41 per person. Pricing includes food, beverage and game ticket. Gates open at 6:00pm, for a 7:05 game start time; food and beverages begin when the gates open at 6:00. For menu and other information, or to order your tickets, please call Janna Green at (301) 464-4886, or email her at jgreen@baysox.com. Deadline for ordering tickets is 3:00pm on Monday, July 6th.
NASHVILLE - Moonshiners could face new competition from legal distilleries in as many as 44 Tennessee counties, including several in the Knoxville area, under legislation given final approval in the waning hours of the 2009 General Assembly. . . .
Sponsors of the bill Rep. Joe Carr and Sen. Bill Ketron, both Rutherford County Republicans, say the measure is an economic development opportunity that could create jobs and promote tourism with the establishment of "mini-distilleries" around the state.
Carr said a small distillery could require as little as a $750,000 investment, In legislative discussions, some lawmakers envisioned someone marketing a legal "Tennessee moonshine."
WASHINGTON (AP) - Early work on the ambitious health care overhaul the Obama administration is seeking has exposed the kinds of in-house fights that typify just how hard it will be to get meaningful legislation this year. Case in point: A proposal to help bankroll universal health coverage with a dime-a-can increase in the price of soft drinks. . . .
Also under consideration are higher alcohol taxes, increases to the Medicare payroll tax and a value-added tax, a sort of national sales tax, of up to 1.5 percent or more.
New on cask Dry Hopped (Bramling Cross) Summer Ale, 3.4% .... an excellent Summer session ale.
After that will be French Oak Aged Biere de Garde followed by a chocolate nut brown ale.
This Tuesday we will be serving Allagash Confluence from Maine on draft. This Wild ale uses Allagash's house yeast and Brettanomyces, imported Pilsner and domestic pale malts, Tettnang & East Kent Golding Hops and is aged, and then dry hopped with Glacier hops. 7.5% ABV.ON THE BEER ENGINES:Gwatkin Scrumpy Real CiderGwatkin Norman Real CiderLagunitas Undercover Shutdown Ale
Last summer, the tranquil English village of Kentisbeare woke up to find a dagger piercing its heart.Okay, fine and dandy. We all cheer when quaint English pubs are saved, right?
The man who ran the neighborhood pub, the Wyndham Arms, had decided to call it quits. Hit by hard times, he locked up one evening and never came back, leaving the village bereft of its "local," the watering hole down the road where, for more than 200 years, the good folk here could always drop in for a pint, a pie or a piece of gossip.The tavern seemed destined to become yet another lost marker of traditional village life, bound for the same remorseless oblivion that had already swallowed the baker's, the butcher's and the petrol station in this lazy green countryside where bluebells nod in the breeze, medieval church towers loom like giant chess pieces and thatched roofs peek coyly through the leaves.Indeed. For centuries, virtually nothing has been more central to the good cheer and cozy charm of English village life than the local pub, whose name alone -- the Bishop's Finger, the Drunken Duck, the Quiet Woman, the Moorend Spout -- could summon a smile.
This time, though, residents drew a line. They retrieved the keys to the pub, renovated the whitewashed 16th century building themselves and reopened it less than two months later.
"People couldn't bear the thought of it being boarded up," said Mavis Durrant, 67, a lifelong resident of the village in southwestern England. "There's something very appealing about a country pub, isn't there?"
Our friends, Belgian brewer/blender Armand and his wife Lydie Debelder, recently suffered a heart wrenching production set-back at their brewery 3 Fonteinen.Okay, so it's chock full of the overwrought hype that Sam and Co. are deservedly famous for, but as for me, I can't wait to sample this. Let's hope it escapes Rehoboth to Max's or other beer bars here in Crabby Beer Town.
A thermostat broke and as a result excessive heat ruined about 100,000 bottles of lambic and gueuze in storage – representing about a third of their annual revenue. Armand hopes to distill the beer and create unique new product as a way of making the best of an unfortunate situation.
Armand has been a great friend and inspiration to creative brewers throughout the world. I got to spend some time with him alongside Vinnie, Tomme, Adam, and Rob when we toured Belgian breweries a few years ago and again with a bunch of Italian craft brewing brethren when we all participated in Salon De Gusto in Turin last year. On that same trip I got to brew at a batch of My Antonia (a continually-hopped imperial pilsner) at Birra del Borgo, a great brewery outside of Rome with my friend the owner Leonardo DiVincenzo. Like us Leonardo is a great fan of Armand’s beers and we received the news of their accident just before Leonardo was scheduled to come visit us in Delaware. We decided to brew a beer together along with our lead brewer Bryan Selders and my wife Mariah that would be a tribute to 3 Fonteinen. We will be sending a portion of the profits to 3 Fonteinen but more importantly we wanted to use this brew as a celebration of the vibrant, creative Belgian brewing culture that, in our minds, 3 Fonteinen embodies. Our ultimate goal is that news of this brew and the production set-back will inspire beer enthusiasts to seek out 3 Fonteinen beers in which ever town and country they live in.
The beer we are brewing together at our Rehoboth pub is a Belgian White made with dried organic orange slices, fresh cut lemongrass and a bit of coriander. It should go on tap at our pub in about three weeks. Mariah had the idea for the lemongrass and orange slices and also the name: Namaste.
All you fellow-freaky yoga types probably know this but…..The gesture Namaste represents the belief that there is a Divine spark within each of us that is located in the heart. The gesture is an acknowledgment of the soul in one by the soul in another. In other words it is a show of mutual respect and admiration – a great single word summary of the inspiration behind this brew.
Here’s what Armand had to say when Leonardo, Bryan, Mariah, and I let him and Lydie know of our intentions for this brew:
" I am very impressed by the moral support of the many beer lovers in US and Italy. We got mail from all over the world, especially from beer lovers who already visited our brewery. They all give us the courage to continue with our brewing of authentic beer.
The brewing of Namaste is heartwarming and shows that good beer can bring people together. A good pint knows no barriers or frontiers.
I was really impressed last year by the quality of some American beers. My wife Lydie and I were invited by Daniël Shelton to the memorial of Michael Jackson and attended the Philly Beerweek. I lived a tremendous week and met some wonderful brewers such as Sam Calagione, brewing marvelous beer.
In January we were at 4:20, a famous beerpub in Rome and there again we met some great Italian brewers creating very nice beers.
To me, a brewer of a very ancient limbic beer, it is very encouraging to see that there are such good beers made outside of Belgium.
Belgium has got a very long tradition of brewing but in a way this is keeping many brewers away from the "creating" part in brewing.
The "freedom" to try out new beers in very various styles in US and Italy is bringing renewal to the beerworld.
The brewing of Namaste is not only a financial help to 3 Fonteinen brewery, it is also a statement of respect and international craft beer solidarity. "
RIGHT BACK AT YA ARMAND! WE ARE STOKED TO MAKE THIS BEER – WE INVITE ALL BEER ENTHUSIASTS TO OUR REHOBOTH PUB TO TRY IT AND WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEEK OUT THE AMAZING BEERS OF 3 FONTEINEN WHEREEVER YOU MAY BE. NAMASTE. - SAM CALAGIONE
NOGNE OThis Tuesday we will be featuring some really rare bottles from the Nogne O Brewery in Grimstad,Norway. We will be serving all in bottles:Nogne O Sunturnbrew.A Smoked Barleywine Hybrid, using 30% Smoked malt and 20% Rye. 11.0%ABVNogne O Dugges Sahti.A Collaboration beer between the Dugges Brewery in Sweden and Nogne O. Brewed with Rye and Wheat, Sea Wormwood from the Swedish Archipelago, juniper twigs from the Norweign forest, honey from heather flowers in Telemark and 3 selected yeast strains from Belgium, Germany and Britain. And of Course malts and Hops.This is a special twist on the Finnish Style Sahti.11.0%ABVNogne O Tushi Double IPA.A Guest brew by Tushi Ishii from the Yo- Ho Brewery in Japan. An Imperial IPA . 100IBU's 8.5%ABVNogne O Saison.Uses Wheat and lager malt. east kent Goldings and Crystal Hops, Belgian Ale Yeast and Local Grimstad Water.6.5%ABV.These are 4 great beers that are very limited and very interesting. You don't want to miss these.See you TuesdayAs always we start at 6pm in the Mobtown Lounge [upstairs]ON THE BEER ENGINES:Lagunitas IPAHarviestoun Old Engine OilWhitemarsh Blueberry
Firkin Thursday - Oliver Oak-Aged Biere de GardeThis Thursday we will tap a firkin of Oliver Breweries' Oak-Aged Biere de Garde. I've been excited about this one ever since I popped open a few bottles of Biere de Garde with brewer Steve Jones one night and learned of his admiration of the Biere de Garde style. Should be a memorable evening. In the Upstairs Bar starting at 6:00 pm.
Albert Sisson died yesterday evening.
In 1979, Albert opened the Sisson's Pub in Federal Hill district, then still known as Southeast Baltimore. Sisson's venture was a gamble; it was a neighborhood on the decline.
The pub thrived however and soon became part of the area's revitalization. It became a destination spot throughout the greater Baltimore area, especially prized for for its Creole cuisine.
His son, Hugh Sisson, added brewing equipment in 1989, making Sisson's the first post-Prohibition brewpub in Maryland (Virginia and DC, for that matter).
Hugh Sisson is the General Partner of the Clipper City Brewing Company.
If a measure of a man's wealth is the measure of his friends, Albert Sisson was an incalculably wealthy man. Many a patron became a friend, after Albert, wearing his trademark large suspenders, had served him a pint and swapped a tall tale.
The family will announce memorial details.
Join the Bowie Baysox at Prince George's Stadium in Bowie, Maryland for
Spaten Brewery's "Beers of Munich" Dinner on Thursday, June 18th beginning
at 6pm. While watching the Baysox (Class AA Affiliate of the Baltimore
Orioles) take on the Reading Phillies (Class AA Affiliate of the
Philadelphia Phillies) from our luxury level restaurant, enjoy three hours
of Spaten Munich Lager on draft, NEW Spaten Munich Dunkel, Franziskaner
Hefe Weiss & Franziskaner Dunkel Wiess and two hours of great German food
all for $41 per person. For menu and other information, or to order your
tickets, please call Janna Green at (301) 464-4886, or email at
jgreen@baysox.com. Deadline for ordering tickets is 3pm on Tuesday, June
16.
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FULLERS MR HARRY6.8%. a nutty, rich and warming ale. deep amber with raisin and caramel flavors.FULLERS CHISWICK BITTER3.5%. Refreshing and highly drinkable. Flowery and fresh with a well developed hop characteristic.
[HEY--SESSION BEER!]ON THE BEER ENGINES:Lagunitas IPAHarviestoun Old Engine OilWhitemarsh Brewing Charlotte
"This Thursday we are scheduled to tap a firkin of cask-conditioned Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA from Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in Easton, Pennsylvania. Double Simcoe IPA is an intensely hopped IPA clocking in at 9.0% so watch out. In the Upstairs Bar starting at 6:00 pm."
First, it's damned near immoral to raise taxes in a deep recession. At some point, especially with excise taxes, you're taking money away from people who don't have enough to give it to people who don't have enough (while stripping away enough to continue paying the wages of the government employees who administer the programs).Read the whole thing.
Second, if the government programs truly are wonderful and benefit everyone...grow (or borrow) a pair and tax everyone fairly (and progressively). Don't put it on the back of moderate drinkers like me whose only 'sin' is to enjoy a beer.
Finally... I'm already buying beer that costs more than 90% of the beer sold in this country. The beer I buy costs almost twice as much a case as the popular beers do. What purpose will increasing the cost of every beer sold serve when the people who buy the more expensive beers are already paying that much and more? Simple: it's about raising revenues, not moderating behavior. And at that point, sweetie, you should be talking income or sales tax, or I should be voting your thieving, lying ass out of office.
