Beer Viking

Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A.

He’Brew Bittersweet Lenny’s RIPA. A 10% double IPA using Rye malt that I have a brewrank of 16 to. What I Say: Dark brown beauty.  A caramel, grainy with balanced hop coming through nose.  From the nose, I was expecting it to be a lot heavier and surprised by a Sweet and Sour (the rye malt?) [...]

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Christmas Beer – Ballards Wassail

Getting near the end of the Christmas Beer tasting and will try to do a wrapup. The label on this one is pretty cool with a Viking (Olde English) tale about where the word Wassail came from. This was a conditioned bottle bought from the well stocked Middle Farm in East Sussex.  I was also able [...]

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Little Creatures Pale Ale;Aust…

Little Creatures Pale Ale;Australia;Pale Ale;5.2%;B;Caramel with spidery head;uhhm hops;Gentle hops with nice bitter aftertaste;A Keeper;17

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De Dolle Brouwers Mad Bitch

Another day, another chance to find and try something else from the De Dolle Brouwers of Belgium. Dulle Teve in Belgian or Mad Bitch in English, or for the American market Triple was on order. This was out of a bottle I picked up at utobeer. It poured an ivory head. Colour was a dark caramel. It was quite [...]

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Watou Tripel – Belgian Trappist Beer

Due to missed connections, earlier tonight I was able to pop into a favourite little shop of mine.  I had to hold off the growing extensive Christmas beer collection there (only so much room in my bag) and picked up a few new ones. First to get the pour was the Watou Tripel, a Trappist beer [...]

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