Wheat
Ska Brewing Co – True Blonde Ale
Cans are really fun. BeerGenius will be posting a few articles with examples of canned beer, and how awesome it can be – quite a departure from your beloved “Old Style.” Check out Ska Brewing’s True Blonde Ale below: The Breakdown: Originality within style (18): This is a comfortable, rich-bodied blonde ale that stands out [...]
Blue Moon Grand Cru 2009
Yes, I did it. Some buzz today online about the fact that Blue Moon created a Grand Cru – beers typically reserved for aging, special events, etc. These beers are usually extreme examples of their namesake, as is this one. @PourMeAPint mused on Twitter today that they were most likely going for a Double Wit [...]
Followup: Session with Orval and Boulevard Brewmasters
I had the pleasure of attending a session last week with famed Brewmaster Jean-Marie Rock of Orval, guest of Steven Pauwels of Boulevard. The session was part of Barley’s Brewhaus’ “Beer School” series of lectures, and a followup to the brewing duo and their primary purpose of coming together: to brew great beer. As mentioned [...]
Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat
Boulevard Brewing Company’s Unfiltered Wheat. The most ubiquitous local microbrew in Kansas City. You’ve definitely seen it if you’re in the surrounding 17 states. If you haven’t, you soon will. The popularity of the hefeweizen-style beers in the past few years has absolutely exploded due to mass-marketed examples such as Blue Moon, New Belgium’s Sunshine [...]
Boulevard Thundercloud
Edit: It’s late July. The 29th, at that. Let’s get this review done. Okay, it’s survey time! Serious question. Think about the last time you’ve had a dark wheat, a dunkelweizen, a light belgian dubbel, or something of the sort. Was it good? Probably didn’t live up to your expectations, did it? There are a [...]
Happenings This Week
Got some good stuff this week. Friday the 15th of May, Tallgrass Brewing Co in Manhattan, KS is throwing a pub crawl, starting at the brewery with their own brew and BBQ. Hard to beat! Call them directly to reserve a spot – I believe they were accepting a total of 100 participants. http://www.tallgrassbeer.com/contact/ I’ll [...]
Samuel Adams “Long Shot” 2007
Tuesday April 2, 2008 The 2007 winners of Samuel Adams “Long Shot” Home Brewers Contest: • Mike McDole’s “Imperial IPA” originally brewed in California • Rodney Kibzey’s “Weizenbock” originally brewed in Illinois • Lili Hess’s “Grape Pale Ale” originally brewed in Hawaii Since 2006, Samuel Adams Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts has been encouraging home brewers [...]
Boulevard Lunar Ale
I’m not going to lie to you – I’ve always been a bit of a fanboi of local breweries. Call it tradition. A brewery was often the cornerstone for towns and cities. The Germans do it. The Czech do it. The English definitely do. In the middle ages, breweries were often the center of town [...]
La Fin Du Monde
La Fin Du Monde, or The End of the World as it is translated, absolutely assaults your taste buds with nothing but wonderful flavor after flavor in a seemingly endless fashion. A wonderfully golden deep yellow, the color only hints at the punch of flavor this beer brings to your taste buds. La Fin Du [...]
