Beer Viking » ipa http://www.beerviking.com Hunting for the Best Beer in the Universe Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 The Question? A friend has a few spare hours in Zurich where can he get good beer? http://www.beerviking.com/2010/06/the-question-a-friend-has-a-few-spare-hours-in-zurich-where-can-he-get-good-beer/ http://www.beerviking.com/2010/06/the-question-a-friend-has-a-few-spare-hours-in-zurich-where-can-he-get-good-beer/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:31:42 +0000 Doc D http://www.beerviking.com/2010/06/the-question-a-friend-has-a-few-spare-hours-in-zurich-where-can-he-get-good-beer/

Simple… In the main train station in Zurich is Brasserie Federal with 200+ Swiss bottled beers and a few on tap. 

Brasserie Federal
Bahnhofplatz 15, 8001 Zürich, Schweiz

Need to look for beers from:

Also worth trying one of the hemp beers which they still brew in Switzerland. Wild stuff.

And if he has more time try to find this brewpub Das Restaurant Steinfels  (which I haven't been to yet but looks intersting): http://www.steinfels-zuerich.ch/

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You can view or download this year's Wandsworth Common Beer Festival (WCBF) Programme Guide below – this lists all the great beers and ciders we will have on cask (and tap) for you. This is in 2 parts as a pdf. Please note there will be some additional beers at the Festival not listed in the guide such as Wassail from Ballards and bottles (see below). We will post up a list of additional cask beers when we get time.
 
We will also have Ales By Mail providing a nice range of bottle beers at the WCBF this year. They will have the ales listed below plus ball thier Belgium beers from La Rulles which is exculsive to ABM. More details here: http://www.alesbymail.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=3&products_id=171
  1. Elmtree Brewery – Nightlight Mild & Burston's Cuckoo
  2. Itchin Valley – Fagins & Pure Gold
  3. Crouch Vale – Essex Boys bitter
  4. Bretwood Brewey – Hope & Glory
  5. Red Squirrel – IPA in the USA
  6. Hoggleys Solstice Stout & Resevoir Hogs
  7. Sambrooks Junction
  8. Meantime – London Stout
  9. Iceni Brewery – Boadicea
 
 

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This year at the 2nd Annual Wandsworth Common Beer Festival we are promoting two innovations to the beer festival format. First we take the bold move of listing them all in order of strength. As opposed to alphabetically or by brewery. They range from 3% in 0.1% increments all the way up to 10%. Second we are promoting a series of BEER LADDERS that we will publish over the coming weeks (or suggest your own). These alternative lists (or Ladders) that will give you access to beers of similar strength, colour, style or a theme. A bunch of these ‘ladders’ will be official ones printed up and available at the festival. Others are being posted up and we encourage people to post other ladders, suggestions and commets.
The Myths & Legends Ladder (BeerViking unofficial Ladder No1 ):
  1. Minotaur Mild 3.3% – Milton Cambridge: Red/brown with defined roasted malt nose leading to sweet finish
  2. Napolean’s Retreat 3.9% – Allgates Wigan, Lancashire:  A deep golden copper colour. Worth trying
  3. Battleaxe 4.2% – Rudgate Brewery Tockwith, North Yorkshire: More complex than the gravity initially suggests. Gentle bitterness leads to a fruity finish.
  4. Naked Ladies 4.4% – Twichenham Fine Ales Twickenham, London (OFFICIAL GLASS SPONSOR): Hopped with both First Gold and Styrian
  5. Yankee Pale Ale 5.0% – Allgates Brewery of Wigan, Lancashire: American style pale ale with specially imported yeast from USA. Cascade, Chinook and Galena hops combine with the low colour extract of Mari otter malt to give a light colour. Crisp and dry another MUST TRY!
  6. Captain Smith 5.2%  - Titanic. Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.  Red/brown colour. Full bodied. Good strong finish. A truly excellent beer celebrating the captain who famously went down with his ship.
  7. Lotus IPA 5.7% – Ilkley Ilkley, West Yorkshire. (NEW BREWERY): Only started in 2009. A golden coloured IPA with hoppy, lemon and citrus aromas.
  8. Skullsplitter 8.5% – Orkney. Quoyloo, Orkney Isles: Intense velvet nose with hints of apple, prune & plum. Hoppy but balanced with silky malt & fruity spices. Long dry finish.
  9. Thomas Sykes 10%!!!!- Burton Bridge. Burton on Trent…. The one to finish on. What is so surprising AND dangerous is that it drinks really well without being overly sweet or cloying. Careful…you may want another.
  10. Go home now Or maybe finish off with a Dark Ruby Mild (or insert this at No 8, moving Skull to 9 and Skyes to 10)… Sarah Hughes Sedgely, West Midlands 6.0% Dark Ruby Mild A festival favourite and rightly so. Now brewing at enlarged brewhouse to supply the free trade and festival demand. One of Britains best beers. Do not leave without trying. Dark and complex.
You can get Beer Festival tickets here (pre register for a chance to win free beer) and full Beer & Cider list is here.

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Triple Rock Brewery & Ale House, Berkeley
Note: draft post…

Beer List

  • Pinnacle Pale Ale – english style pale ale, very light, pretty average. 12
    Kolsch .45 – sharp, true to style. 14
    Millstone Wheat – fresh, citrus, also true to style. Very drinkable. 14
    Bug Juice West Coast Pale Ale – hoppy, long finish. Nice. 15
    Red Rock Red Ale – wow, very stornly hopped, tight finish. Classic! 16
    Black Rock Stout – very nice stout, smooth. 15

    • Guest Ale
    Sacramento BrewCo IPA – very solid ‘west coast’ IPA. 15.5

    ]]>     http://www.beerviking.com/2009/07/triple-rock-brewery-ale-house-berkeley-west-coast-raid-cont/feed/ 0     Northern California Raid: After Day 1 (Updated) http://www.beerviking.com/2009/07/northern-california-raid-after-day-1/ http://www.beerviking.com/2009/07/northern-california-raid-after-day-1/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:58:23 +0000 thetank http://www.beerviking.com/2009/07/northern-california-raid-after-day-1/ California Proud!
    Creative Commons License photo credit: 123 look at me

    Updated original post with scores and notes on the Red River Belgians (See Beers)

    Some of the BeerViking ( mostly Doc D but Hunter as well) crew are heading to Northern California on a serious pillage mission.

    They will be filing field reports via Twitter and at HQ we’ll try to pull these together into semi-coherent summaries.

    First up, some hippy music with the Grateful Dead. Key lines here are:

    California, I’ll be knocking on the golden door

    Which when it comes to craft beer, most people have to agree that California is exactly that.

    Breweries/Pubs

    Stop 1:  Beach Chalet

    17 @pubrank for the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, CA. http://www.beachchalet.com/

    Stop 2:  Marin Brewing Company

    http://twitpic.com/aq8xo – NorCal Micro Brewery Raid – stop No 2: Marin BrewCo, Larkspur. Tasty!

    Stop 3:  Russian River

    http://twitpic.com/aq998 – Russian River – beer menu. So many and so good. Like ‘wine; and fine women.


    View Nor Cal in a larger map

    The Beers

    CALIFORNIA KIND 14
    PRESIDIO IPA 14
    DEE’S BITTER ALE 14
    Tiburon Blonde 13
    Albion Amber 14
    Mt Tam Pale Ale 15.5
    Blind Pig IPA 17
    Russian River IPA 15
    Pliney The Elder 18
    Hop Stoopid Double IPA 15

     

    Brewrank

    All of these have been brewranked, here’s a Search on Twitter where you can find more details.

    The Belgian Style Brews @ Russian River

    Doc D filed the following update into HQ.

    • Perdition – Biere de Sanoma: very lgith, sublte hints of dry white
      wine, good summer or session beer. 12
    • Damnation – Strong Golden Ale: Fuck amazing want more. 17
    • Salvation – Dark Strong Ale: fine for winter wrong time of year. Not
      going to finish it. 14
    • Temptation: this reminds me of Orval but even more refined. Super
      graphfruity notes. 15
    • Sanctification – 100% Brettanomyces, 6.25%ABV: ‘lambic’ style to my
      taste. Really smooth. 17
    • Consercration – dark sour aged in oak barrels. 10% abv: ouch can’t
      rate too complex. like a whisky.
    • Publication – Saison 8% abv best of the belgians in this line up today. 18!

    Summary

    By hitting Russian River and knocking back Pliney the Elder, arguably the prototype American Pale Ale, the guys have started the raid with impeccable standards.  As I’m living a vicarious dream from HQ, I for one can’t wait to see what the next couple of days holds.

    Russian River Brewing Company Blackboard

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    Back in May I had the pleasure of attending the Beer Academy’s 90 minutes tasting session “Beers over Britain Matched with Food” with a few mates. If you don’t already know about the Beer Academy then be sure to check out their course catalog. The Academy is part of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling. They run a series of courses around the UK for both professionals in the beer trade and beer enthusiasts.

    The session we attended included matching some tasty British beers with food. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the food matching part. Time to start a campaign, with all my wine and foodie friends to branch out and to pair more beer with food.

    Somehow my tasting notes from the evening got lost along the way home… But I know we started with an Italian Peroni Nastro Azzuro to clear the palette (good choice). Beer No 1 was St Peter’s Organic Ale, always good. Number 2 was Inns & Gunn a first for me, No 3 was White Shield IPA the classic IPA and we finished with Meantime London Porter perfect for the closing out this evening session in central London.

    ]]>     http://www.beerviking.com/2009/06/the-beer-academy-tasting-session-beers-over-britain-a-very-short-summary/feed/ 0     Thorbridge Jaipur IPA garden b… http://www.beerviking.com/2009/05/thorbridge-jaipur-ipa-garden-b/ http://www.beerviking.com/2009/05/thorbridge-jaipur-ipa-garden-b/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 11:15:25 +0000 Twitter http://www.beerviking.com/2009/05/thorbridge-jaipur-ipa-garden-b/ Thorbridge Jaipur IPA garden beer [pic] http://ff.im/-2wo3f

    ]]>     http://www.beerviking.com/2009/05/thorbridge-jaipur-ipa-garden-b/feed/ 0     Beer No 9 Thornbridge Jaipur I… http://www.beerviking.com/2009/05/beer-no-9-thornbridge-jaipur-i/ http://www.beerviking.com/2009/05/beer-no-9-thornbridge-jaipur-i/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 11:01:54 +0000 Twitter http://www.beerviking.com/2009/05/beer-no-9-thornbridge-jaipur-i/ Beer No 9 Thornbridge Jaipur IPA – tasty! In Around My Garden in 80 Beers Summer 2009!

    ]]>     http://www.beerviking.com/2009/05/beer-no-9-thornbridge-jaipur-i/feed/ 0     Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A. http://www.beerviking.com/2009/04/bittersweet-lennys-ripa/ http://www.beerviking.com/2009/04/bittersweet-lennys-ripa/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:45:34 +0000 thetank http://www.beerviking.com/2009/04/bittersweet-lennys-ripa/ He’Brew Bittersweet Lenny’s RIPA. A 10% double IPA using Rye malt that I have a brewrank of 16 to.

    Genesis_bottleNew2.ai

    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?) giving way to what I would have describe as a sweet, cherry, bitter hoppiness, that fades leaving you with a wonderful after taste.

    I know this is in effect to be a Double/Imperial IPA but I would suggest that this actually could be considered more along the lines of a Belgian trippel and would be curious to taste it in a flight against such.

    What They Say:

    Before that, I have to have an additional say with I love the fact that the Shmaltz Brewing Company (who are behind He’brew and Coney Island) published the recipe to this find brew.

    Malts:  2-row, Rye Ale Malt, Torrified Rye, Crystal Rye 75, Crystal Malt 65, Wheat, Kiln Amber, Caramel 70

    Hops:  Warrior, Cascade, Simcoe, Crystal, Chinook, Amarillo, Centennial. Dry Hopped with Amarillo and Crystal

    Ladies and Gentlemen, Shmaltz Brewing Co. is proud to introduce Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A. Brewed with an obscene amount of malts and hops. Shocking flavors – far beyond contemporary community standards. We cooked up the straight dope for the growing minions of our nation’s Radical Beer junkies.

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