Beer Profile: Meriwether, Commons and Perennial Collaboration
Profiled by Maria Devan
The saison is like a beer pleasantry. Have you ever been to the confectioners shop? You can find there a small perfect box with hard lemon candies in it. They are perfectly yellow and have a light dusting of sugar . They look perfect but not delicate.
Meriwether is a collaboration between Perennial Artisan Ales and The Commons Brewery.
The pour is alive with bubbles. Not just one stream! They keep coming and the head is very creamy and stands quite a long time. Lemon yellow and hazy. Nose is bright with lemon, grasses and spice . A healthy sugar on this nose and a scrumptious malt underneath that little bit of extra sweetness. Some barnyard to give tartness . I thought I smelled wheat at first. Golden malt. Drinks with lots of wonderful hop herbal and lemon. Spice and a touch of earthy sweet funk. Herbal pepper and bubbly carbonation finish the beer with a firm hops bitter to linger. It does not finish all the way dry. Just a touch of sweetness on this one to finish malty. A subtle crackery finish with lots of spice.
The saison often appears as a contradiction. Hearty yet delicate, sweet but dry, I think that is why so may have girls names. This one is so lemony it’s bon vivant! It’s also a little bold with funk. TGIF everyone!
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Welcome to the PGA beer rating system: one beer “Don’t bother.” Two: Eh, if someone gives it to you, drink. Three: very good, go ahead and seek it out, but be aware there is at least one problem. Four: seek it out. Five: pretty much “perfecto.”
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Maria Devan lives in Ithaca, NY and is a great beer writer. That’s Maria in the middle. The other two are not, but they are lucky to have her as a friend.
Hot or Not: Heat Effects on Flavor Stability in Finished Beer
While we’re right to be wary of light when it comes to finished beer, worries about heat are – persistently and irrationally – overstated. While heat does have an effect, it isn’t an inherently damaging factor in its own right: it needs help. And, by and large, if you’re producing good, healthy beer then you don’t need to worry quite as much.
BRIGHT VS. HOT
Light is our enemy. We’ve all tasted skunky beer. Skunking is an effect caused by the interaction of UV light with specific compounds found in hops (though not hop extracts, as I understand it). This has led some to conflate light with heat, which is a bad idea for at least two reasons.
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Vienna, City of Beer Gardens
Image courtesy tripadviser.atÂ
Written by Franz Hoder for A Tempest in a Tankard
Where were we?
In Exploring Vienna’s Beer Gardens, we headed out to Vienna’s iconic Prater for some Czech Budweiser and roasted pork knuckle. After that, we hiked through the Vienna woods and capped it with an Augustiner beer fresh from Salzburg at the Bamkraxler (A Beer Garden in Vienna’s Wine Country). Time for another one of those epic tram rides –– this time to the western corner of the city.
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Maria Devan Reviews: Southern Tier 2XTangier
Vienna, City of Beer Gardens
Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard
In Exploring Vienna’s Beer Gardens, we headed out to Vienna’s iconic Prater for some Czech Budweiser and roasted pork knuckle. After that, we hiked through the Vienna woods capped it with an Augustiner beer fresh from Salzburg at the Bamkraxler (A Beer Garden in Vienna’s Wine Country). Time for another one of those epic tram rides –– this time to the western corner of the city.
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Beer Profile: New Holland’s Dragon’s Milk Bourbon Barrel (Raspberry Lemon)
Profiled by Ken Carman
I find New Holland hit and miss. This was not just a hit; while not a home run, at least second base…. more like third. I got everything here, both in the nose and to taste. The “milk†could be more “milk†when cold: lactose etc.
Head disappears fast: white foam. So black can’t see through. Pillow lite brown head.
The milk is more in the nose and it could use more stout characteristics to taste and to sniff…ala’ roasted barley. But this is a minor concern A tad like a chocolate shake for adults with bourbon, raspberry and lemon. Malt complexity obvious: pale, probably chocolate and brown. No hops noted.
Buy it, but complain to the brewer, “Why can’t your brews be more like this?”
Not enough reviews on on either BA or RG to quote.
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Welcome to the PGA beer rating system: one beer “Don’t bother.” Two: Eh, if someone gives it to you, drink. Three: very good, go ahead and seek it out, but be aware there is at least one problem. Four: seek it out. Five: pretty much “perfecto.”
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By Ken Carman Ken Carman is a screen name for the Simpson’s dog in the alternate cartoon universe: Satan’s Little Helper
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Maria Devan on Tasting Beer, Reviews and Reviewing
Vienna, City of Beer Gardens
Written by Franz Hofer for A Tempest in a Tankard
Not a cloud in the sky and the streets are starting to radiate the heat of the late afternoon. So much to see in Vienna. But I could use a cool drink right about now.
Perfect time to head to a beer garden.
“A beer garden?†some of my Viennese friends ask, usually with slightly raised eyebrow. In writing this series on beer gardens, I’ve come to learn that many in Vienna don’t refer to beer gardens as beer gardens. The preferred term is “Gastgarten†(guest garden), while “Biergarten†has a distinctively southern German ring to it. I’ll revisit this fascinating semantic world of Gasthäuser, Wirtshäuser, Beiseln, and Gastgärten at a later date. For now, though, it’s probably a safe bet for us English speakers to just call the drinking establishments in this series “beer gardens.â€
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