Brown Ales

Karl Strauss Fullsuit Belgian-Style Brown

BeerGenius is taking a quick break from our canned beer tasting (to resume soon!) to visit some awesome beers from Karl Strauss Brewing Company out of San Diego, California. I had the opportunity to do some blind tastings of their new winter seasonal (the old one was their Red Trolley, reviewed here), a new 22oz [...]

Goose Island 2009 Christmas Ale

I’m loving all of these holiday beers/winter seasonal beers from breweries around the world – they’re all drastically different, yet of the same genre. Because of this, it’s also quite difficult to rate them from a style standpoint – the craft of each brewer’s interpretation is just that – an interpretation of what a winter [...]

Sam Adams 2009 Utopias

I had the pleasure of reviewing Sam Adams 2009 Utopias. Check it out: The Breakdown: Originality within style (20): Come on – who else makes a beer like this? Not only is it COMPLETELY original, it’s marvelous. Nose (19): Can burn with a regular snifter, but is much less offensive out of the Riedel glass. [...]

Karl Strauss – Red Trolley Ale

Meet Karl Strauss and their Red Trolley Ale. I stumbled across these guys while at the BevMo Holiday Beer Festival in San Francisco a few weeks ago, and pretty much fell in love with their beer. Producing about 40,000 barrels/year at the moment, Karl Strauss is all over the west coast. The Brewery’s namesake, Karl [...]

Odell Isolation Ale

It’s that time of the year – winter seasonal brews are beginning to emerge from breweries. Some of them take the spicy route, with additions of clove, nutmeg, special hops, and such; others prefer to take a boozy route, with various styles of barley wines or malty double IPAs. Not so for Odell out of [...]