And it soon became hysterical – almost maniacal – laughter. This is a very late addition to the list, but when I opened one of these the other day, I just broke down laughing. Cherry Beer For Pizza | Cherry Cola-inspired malt beverage | Off Color Brewing | Chicago, IL | 4.5% ABV Pictured: the also incredibly awesome regular Beer For Pizza with my favorite pizza. Alternate between this and 4-pack bottles of Arctic Panzer Wolf, and you’ll be in palate-decimating hop heaven. It’s sticky resinous pine bitter finish lingers like an aged sharp cheddar. There’s sweetness like a marmalade biscuit that hits for a second, but the second wave is all muddled citrus fruit. With a label refresh and new packaging in 4-packs of 12 ounce bottles, this one returns to my semi-regular pickup lineup. Somehow, releasing a boozy, bitter, malty imperial IPA is “Not Normal” again, even though this beer is a classic in their lineup. Who else was freaking people’s minds with locally-made, fresh hoppy beers in the Chicagoland area like they were for the first two decades of this century? Then, everyone else followed their aggro-model for a while, and then it became “Well, It Used To Be Not Normal” for a time. | Munster, IN | 9.1% ABV – listenįor a long time, “It’s Not Normal” made a lot of sense with 3 Floyds. Dreadnaught | Imperial IPA | 3 Floyds Brewing Co. Rarely do you find a barrel-aged beer that you want to drink an entire 4-pack of, but this delicately barrel-treated gose from Lake Effect is better than any champagne cooler you can throw together for your lonely inflatable poolside hangs in your backyard.ģ1. In the flavor, it’s still a tart wheat gose that is slightly accentuated by sweet red grapes and a touch of wine barrel tannin. (This series also includes a Malort barrel-aged gose, and Ryan is ISO, btw.) The California Port barrels used to age the gose add a lot: a crimson color with bubbles hanging in suspension light earthy aromas of musty grape and currant. Somewhat like the excellent School of Brett series, their barrel-aged gose series also seeks to identify those subtle flavor differences when a variable is changed. Clint and his crew are using a wide variety of barrels to really go for inspired flavor combinations rather than just making bourbon barrel-aged adjunct stout number 523. I’ve shouted from the mountaintops about Lake Effect’s barrel-aged beers, but what might be most impressive for a brewery of their size is how purposeful the application of barrels has become. Gose Ale Aged In Port Barrels | Gose Ale aged in California Port barrels | Lake Effect Brewing | Chicago, IL | 4.8% ABV – listen It quickly shifts to an effervescent body with tart lemon peel and a more noticeable sweet clover honey before finishing with a delicate dryness.ģ7. On the taste, it starts soft with honey wheat bread and lavender. ![]() Aromatically, this starts with honey, lemongrass and fresh cut dandelion. But perhaps the most important ingredient in their beers is the native yeast and microbes that imbue this otherwise light Grisette with more complex earthy and funky notes. Their location just outside of Burlington, WA gives them access to ample resources from the Skagit Valley for brewing. Besides having one of the cooler beer-themed names in the industry (along with Levi Funk, Brett Porter, and Ken Stout, to name a few), Extract should sound familiar to those who love esoteric farmhouse ales, as he served as a co-owner and partner at Jester King, where Watts also managed the tasting room and front office. Garden Path Fermentation is a relatively new project from Ron Extract and Amber Watts, and I admit I hadn’t heard of them until they showed up on Chicagoland shelves just two months back. The Easygoing Drink | Grisette | Garden Path Fermentation | Burlington, WA | 4.4% ABV Special thanks to our friends at On Tap Credit Union for their support this year to make this GABF Coverage Possible! This post was made possible through support from On Tap Credit Union Hoppy Beers Route Abnormal Beer Co.39. Hop heads unite, for these dank, piney, citrus, hazy, and hoppy beers. ![]() Now we invite you to explore some of the best hoppy that we know will be pouring at GABF. ![]() ![]() As part of that research, we’ve sifted through every beer pouring at this year’s event to bring you a series of themed routes to help you plan for your GABF based on various styles and flavors. The Great American Beer Festival is nearly upon us! And as we always do, each year at PorchDrinking, we’re here to help you navigate the vast lineup of beers to help with planning your route at the fest.
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