Time for yet another Summer beer, a Somer Orange Honey Ale from Rogue. This is a new year-round offering from them and it is brewed with Oregon honey, Orange, Coriander, Oats, & Chamomile. I decided to have the beer with a dinner of grilled chicken sausages off of the Big Green Egg: Appearance: This beer [...] Read more »
Terrapin Side Project #7 Maggie’s Farmhouse Ale
Lucky #7 Terrapin Beer Company has just released #7 in their semi-regular “Side Project” series of beers. This time Spike and the gang brewed up their take on a Saison, or Farmhouse Ale (a style of beer that was developed in the middle ages to satiate the thirst of Belgian farm workers). In typical side [...] Read more »
Traveling Through Time With Beer: Dogfish Head Theobroma And Chateau Jiahu
Boarding Our Beer Time Machine Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales is one of the more innovative, and popular, brewers out there. They have quite a variety of beers available on a year-round basis plus a bunch of specialty brews that come out from time to time. One of their most intriguing projects is their series [...] Read more »
Great Divide 15th Anniversary Wood Aged Double IPA
Happy Birthday Great Divide Brewing Summer must be craft beer birthday season. Last week I reviewed the 13th Anniversary Ale from Stone Brewing, and this week I review the 15th Anniversary beer from Great Divide Brewing Company. To celebrate 15 years of brewing, Great Divide made a special version of their Denver Pale Ale by [...] Read more »
Bells Oberon Ale
Here Comes The Sun As the Summer heat continues I find myself with more and more wheat beers to drink. Next on the list is Oberon Ale. This one comes from Bell’s Brewery, Inc. in Michigan. I think they got the name “Oberon” from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon was the King of Shadows [...] Read more »
Sam Adams Summer Ale
I’ve been on a bit of a Summer beer kick here the last few weeks. Here is yet another option, Sam Adams Summer Ale. This beer is brewed with Lemon and Grains of Paradise, a little bit of a twist on some of the other wheat beers out there: Appearance: The color of the beer [...] Read more »
