Beer Comedy Part III
Beer Comedy, Part II
Beer Comedy Part 1
Beer Profile: Fire Rock Pale Ale, Kona Brewing, Hawaii
Profiled by Ken Carman for professorgoodales.net
The nose is nice citrus with a hint of grapefruit, caramelized malt with hop more upfront “by a nose.”
Mouthfeel nice caramelized malt with hops lingering. Carbonation light in mouthfeel but not in appearance.
However, once you get to the taste the sense of this beer changes. This is not just your typical citrus/American/grapefruity pale. There’s some hop spice back there and a slightly more specific sense of caramelization, almost like hot granite was used in the wort.
In a market where American Pale Ales have saturated the shelves, this is a bit unique. Give it a try!
The Beer Highway in Northern California, Part III
Note: This is an archive edition, chosen by The Professor to highlight some of the best from PGA. Also… Lost Coast pictures courtesy yelp.com. Beer and first logo courtesy Jennifer Moline and feedgrids.com. See article posted after this.
Written by Tom Becham for Professor Goodales
The last leg of the trip my wife and I took to NorCal brings us to Humboldt County. Now, many beer afficionados who read this may be critical that we did not stop at some of the places along our route. After all, well within our reach were brewers like Marin, Lagunitas, Russian River, Mendocino, North Coast and even Mad River. Those are all 
fine brewers to be sure, but this trip was about family so we had to forego all those stops.
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When we finally reached our destination of Eureka, we made good our family obligations. We even managed to squeeze in a quick lunch and beer sampling at Lost Coast Brewing.
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The Beer Highway in Northern California, Part II
Written by Tom Becham for Professorgoodales.net
Note: this is an archive edition from The Professor, featuring some of the best articles that have appeared here at PGA.
Our first beer-related stop was at the Magnolia Pub and Brewery. Located in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco, the neighborhood around the Magnolia still retains a bit of the old funky, hippie-ish vibe it was known for in the 60’s and 70’s, but with a more tourist-centric aspect now. The interesting people watching on the streets could fill a volume on its own. Continue reading “The Beer Highway in Northern California, Part II”
The Beer Highway in Northern California, Part 1 of 3
Written by Tom Becham for Professorgoodales.net
This is an archive edition from The Professor, featuring some of the best featured here at PGA.
Due to some family considerations, January saw me and my wife traveling to Northern California by car. While I did not, and could not make this entire trip about beer, we did manage to visit a couple prominent breweries and/or their taprooms while on the road.
The first of these places was Firestone-Walker. Their actual brewery is in Paso Robles, but their taproom – with 
nice attached restaurant – is just off the highway in Buellton, California. As Firestone is located smack in the heart of Santa Barbara wine country (and since the Firestone family is also involved in wineries), the brewery’s fondness for barrel-aging beers seems natural. Combined with Firestone’s fondness for barrel-fermenting and aging beers, is their effort to make beers that are as English in character as possible. The results tend to be ales that one could easily find in a pub in Yorkshire or Kent, but with a unique twist.
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Advanced Homebrewing with Gordon Strong
Beer Profile: ta henket
Profiled by Ken Carman for professorgoodales.net
Another interesting Dogfish creation. Ingredients culled from hieroglyphics, this is a brew Rah would rah, rah.
Za’atar is a blend of spices, salt and sesame. Dried sumac is one of the poisons…. ah, “spices.” (Most likely a non-poison version of sumac?) Doum seems to be a palm fruit or derivative and chamomile. Wheat-based beer.
Pillow head with tad rock that fades fast. Just a tad hazy with rising bubbles. SRM 2-3 at best.
Sweet, caramelized fruity malt nose. Not much else.”Free range Egyptian yeast” was used. In other words they probably found a back porch or two (or more) and collected yeast. Light, plum-like, taste with caramelized malt sense clinging to roof of mouth.
Ta Henket is brewed with an ancient form of wheat and loaves of hearth-baked bread, and it’s flavored with chamomile, doum-palm fruit and Middle Eastern herbs. To ferment this earthy ancient ale, Sam and friends traveled to Cairo, set out baited petri dishes and captured a native Egyptian saccharomyces yeast strain.
Malt mouthfeel is light and a bit sweet, with perhaps some pilsner malt. This is a light beer, body and abv-wise. There’s almost a sweet wine like sense without the grapes or the higher abv.
The native sacc. yeast is probably one of the lightest treatment of that yeast of a beer I’ve had.
This is a unique, light and very satisfying beverage. One hopes they bring it back and back. I would drink this before any supposed “lawnmower” beer I’ve ever had. 4.5 abv. No hops sensed except slight bitter.
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