Thread: Beer of the Day !

Originally Posted by donv

Next weekend I'll be heading over the hills to Fort Bragg Ca. I checked out the North Coast Brewery's site and they have some Old Rasputin that has been aged for a year in oak bourbon barrels. I'm just gonna have to pick a bottle or two. Today was Sierra Nevada Summerfest.

^I enjoyed a bottle of the oak aged Old Raspy last weekend with some good friends. What a beer! The oak adds a great bourbon and vanilla flavor to the allready smokey and chocolatey Old Raspy. Plus, it mellows the 11% ABV down. It's dangerously smooth, but very rich. The bottle we had was aged in oak one year and then aged another two years in my beer fridge.

If you haven't already tried it, I highly recommend aging even the regular Old Rasputin for a year or even two. This strong stout holds up very well to the aging process as long as it is kept cool and out of the light. Aging takes this great beer to an even higher level.

Originally Posted by stax

As a Belgian i can only agree on the Belgian beers!!
My favorite Belgian beer is: Leffe (dark) and WestVleteren... but you can't find the 'West-Vleteren' abroad
It isn't even for sale in stores as the monks brew it and sell it in their 'monastery' (i hope i wrote that correctly)

^stax, you inspired me to run out and pick up some Leffe Brune. This is a great beer that I had the pleasure of enjoying while visiting Europe a few years ago and it is just now becoming available in the US thanks to the InBev-Anheuser distribution channels. I will be picking up more of this for sure:

As I'm in Prague now, I'm enjoying one of these:

I had this brew while visiting the capital of the confederacy: Richmond, Va. As with all Pale Ales the hops dominates both nose and palate, nice and refreshing since it was a tad hot that day...and remember folks, continue to drink BEER AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BREWERY. HOG

I'm enjoying a couple of this fine Chech Beer today. 4 ingredients only...

Gonna work my way through these ample bodied, nubile ladies tonight, I'll report back after each conquest...

Well the first one was a quickie. Nice. Sort of like a stout except it tastes nice. 5.6%, so not dangerous strong but still wife sending you to bed strong. Nice label. From the Clare valley, South Australia (just down the road); I thought it was German imported when I got it. Like the labels. Very nice.

The White Rabbit Dark Ale was nice. Again, a little 'stouty'; not that there's anything wrong with that. I myself am a little stouty these days. Nice. And if you drink a six pack of these 'round a fire, you can put on some psychedelic pop, such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre (my favorite band) you can go all trippy looking at the label very closely, which features a forest scene such as may be featured in a children's book. Five, no, 16 and a 1/2 points for presentation. 4.9% alcohol. What I call mid strength. Happy with that. Victorian beer (i.e. not cellared in Victorian times; from the state of Victoria, Australia.)
South Australians sort of have a problem with Victorians. They think they play better footy than we do. They play Aus Rules like we do. Queensland does a lot of that funny footy; with the scrums and putting your fingers up the other guy's date and stuff. Have you seen the size of those rugby guys though? They all seem to be mad gamblers on the pokies, and wanting a bit of biffo all the time. At least that's the gist I get from the media. Buts let's face it. Rupert and that other guy, and now that mining woman tell us everything we know; unless we seek it out and experience it ourselves. Like I was saying, the White Rabbit's a fine ale...The next review is fast approaching. Coopers Extra Strong Vintage Ale...Stay tuned...

Coopers Extra Strong Vintage Ale

Well. Firstly I'm a little perturbed by the lack of any sort of apostrophe whatso ever in 'Coopers'. Surely, it should be Coopers'. Being that fact it's a guy and his Son/s. When I tasted it I thought "Well, of course. Coopers is the best brewery in the world". It's South Australian, you see. STILL run by the family. I grew up on Coopers Sparking ale and Coopers Stout. The stout was the cause of me punching the door of my Valiant Charger. We'd been up on the roof of the house drinking, us flat mates. We were about 19. Now we were inside at the kitchen table 'embellishing' the buzz. An argument happened. Just from an idle comment. I pushed a large glass ashtray violently across the table to my twin brother and it crashed into his coffee cup and broke it. He'd been eating pickled cucumbers and drinking coffee. The coffee went everywhere of course. He got up from the table and left. 30 seconds later I got up to see where he went. He was in my bedroom throwing pickled cucumbers at my walls; splattering them everywhere. We tussled. Pushing each other. Then I hit him in the jaw with a right cross. It happens very rarely; but when it does it just does. he fell on his back and I stormed out; into the drive way, on to the road and punched the door of my Valiant Charger.

For some reason that incident made me feel more like a man than anything else ever...

It's 0229, I should be fast asleep, but at least I'm entertained by your beer reviews! They seem to be getting more entertaining as you work your way through the chosen beers. I checked out Mount Torrens on Google Earth, interesting place. I have a distorted idea of what Australia really is, getting information from TV or what I have read. Anyway, I don't think I'll be able to stay awake for the next beer review, but I look forward to seeing it. Take care, Don V

Well tonight it's some of the best beer in the world (albeit in midstrength version of GOLD) followed by the best bourbon in the world (Or nearly so anyway, JD and WT are better. JB has better choices like Rye and Cherry).

Right I'm off to grab a Tinnie!





Mick