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MIAMI — Florida wildlife officials say a man tried to trade a live alligator for beer at a Miami convenience store.
State Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino says the man received a citation for illegally capturing and trying to sell the gator.
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A Lips of Faith and Cigar City collaboration
Sweet chile nose: skin of chile-like that helps pale malt waft up to the nose. Very pleasing. Like being in a field of slightly sugar coated chiles, but not earthy. Slight chill haze, pillow head… massive. Yellow, srm about 2. Almost chocolatey on the palate.
The chilies are up front but very much supported by firm low side of medium pale malt background. The balance between the two is almost perfect.
Mouthfeel is full, yet moderate on the top of the palate Just a hint of pepper, probably driven by the chilies. Not sure this could be better. You NEED to try this. I give it a 4, only because it’s not quite as pleasing at warmer temps, but oh so desirable, and oh so close to a 5.
As it warms the chilies assert themselves even more: a great experience. This is a sipping beer as it warms, however, it gets more peppery… though the sweetness is still in the background. Not a quick quaff.
This is like a nice IPA only with chilies.
On a recent Monday morning, the stretch of Route 100 that runs through sleepy Waterbury, Vt., was bumper-to-bumper. The line of Camrys, Sierras, and Outbacks, some from as far away as Illinois, inched forward in the crisp air, their drivers united in a singular goal.
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson: b-e-e-e-r.
Jen Kimmich sighed at the chaos. She knew what they’d come for. They’d been arriving every Monday for the past two-and-a-half years, more every week, to the point where they now crowded the parking lots of the nearby Phinne nail salon and the Merchants Bank, both on the wrong side Rt. 100, forcing their owners to dash across the state highway to reach their journey’s end, a cramped retail shop in a modest beige building that housed the Alchemist brewery.
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Beer probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind when you think of the word “monastery†– but since receiving official recognition on Dec. 10, Saint Joseph’s Abbey
in Spencer, Mass., will become the first American brewery to be manned exclusively by Trappist monks.
The beer, labeled “The Spencer Trappist Ale,†is to be brewed exclusively within the walls of the monastery. Founded in 1950 by members of the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance, commonly known as Trappists, Saint Joseph’s Abbey has roots that reach far back to monks who fled France during its revolution at the end of 18th century.
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Anyone else notice not ONE is a craft beer, and almost all are Miller/Coors or AB/InBev?-OEN
While craft beer may seem to be all the rage these days, the number of people cracking open a cold one has actually been on the decline.
According to Beer Marketer’s Insights, beer sales have slipped 2.3 percent between 2007 to 2012.
Michelob Light has been a big loser, plunging 70 percent, while the once top-selling Budweiser, declined by more than 25 percent over the past five years. Miller Genuine Draft, Old Milwaukee and Heineken Premium Light are also losing market share.
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This is obviously a sweet, still and is considered a classic of the style by the BJCP when it comes to sweet. It deserves that status, in my opinion.
I am guessing the honey is mostly Orange Blossom, for the aroma is citrus mixed with floral. I would call it orange with a hint of rind, but very slight at best. The floral is like a flower one might find in a forest. The sweet grabs the nose and tickles it a tad.
Visual: yellow, light amber. Clarity is good, I can see the desk below the cup.
Taste: sweet with a little almost Buckwheat sense. Is this a slight add to the bev, or just aging? Orange and, again, a hint of rind. The sweet is neither cloying or marginal: just right. Body is on the slightly heavier than medium side.
Mouthfeel: slightly slick, with abv slightly clinging to the roof of the mouth. There’s a fruit/orange sense that lingers on the roof of the mouth and reminds me of a fine orange wine, and I have had one of those… they are few to be sure.
I would love to try a slightly carbonated version, and it would still be a still according to guidelines.
NOTE/CAVEATS: there are also alternate yeasts NOT just lager and ale, like Brett, or lactobacillus… more a bacteria. IPA created in ENGLAND, not “Europe.” Beer and pot are not “cousins.” Hop and pot are related. The brewery where lager yeast was not named “Pilsen.” “Carlsberg” was the name of the brewery and Emil Christian Hansen discovered it: for some reason this bit of history is frequently missed and, POOR Germans, it was a DANISH discovery.
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Huntsville, AL
Deep brown head, plenty of, black as hell, thick. Murky in a great, yet, foreboding way. I would expect Nessie lives somewhere beneath these waters. Pillow and a few big rocks in the head. Aroma: Cabernet, deep roast malt with a hint of roasted barley overtones.
This is like gruel in the pour. Beautiful gruel.
Mouthfeel: Cabernet coats the roof of the mouth and the thick viscosity is like 30 weight motor oil, only tasty, pleasing. Carbonation light, yet perfect. Coats the mouth like a good, pleasant tasting motor oil-ish brew in the pour should.
Taste is roast: deep and pleasing, a bit like plums soaked in Cabernet and some dark cherry. There is a wood sense here: but way in the background. Mostly just the Cabernet. Sweet Cabernet dominates: that with a caramelized brown sugar-like sense. There’s also a toasted sweet pumpernickel–like character in the background
I dare you to put it in your mouth and NOT have it take over your taste buds like the Borg of beers. They WILL be assimilated.
I have to give it a 5.
Germany boasts the “prost” with the most!
German beer brewers launched a bid to have their 16th century beer purity law officially recognized as a cultural treasure for humanity.
The German Brewers’ Federation announced Monday that it applied for UNESCO, the cultural agency for the United Nations, to add the Bavarian beer law “Reinheitsgebot” to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
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