Day 17 of ChurchKey’s advent beer box: a nicely seasonal porter.
Day 17 of ChurchKey’s advent beer box: a nicely seasonal porter.
Day 11 of the advent beer box is a lager with yeast resuscitated from Weihenstephan.
Day 15 of ChurchKey’s Advent Beer Box brings our tally of NEIPAs up to 8/15 beers so far. Porters and stouts: zilch.
That’s a picture of Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery, the brewery behind Day 7 of ChurchKey’s Advent Beer Box, a dark lager.
Day 6 of ChurchKey’s Advent Beer Box offers a literary allusion to suit this blog.
Day 5 of ChurchKey’s Advent Beer Box gives us a big ol’ imperial stout with lactose and dried coconut. An apt end to a weekend of family, picking up a Christmas tree from Oyster-Adams’s annual sale, baking spiced pecans, sipping egg nog, and watching bad Christmas movies.
Day 4 of ChurchKey’s Advent Beer Box: a hazy IPA from Timber Ales (NY).
Day 3 of ChurchKey’s Advent Beer Box: an Italian pilsner from Oxbow.
Day 2 of ChurchKey’s Advent Beer Box: a raspberry key lime sour from Weymouth, MA.
Day 1 of ChurchKey’s Advent Beer Box! Bluejacket’s Build or Destroy (served in juice glasses, appropriately).
A very sweet series of imperial stouts, named after the Lost Generation, calls to mind Wilfred Owens’s critique of Horace’s “old Lie” that it is “sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”
The final installment in Bell’s seven-beer Leaves of Grass series is a wild-yeast fermentation that connects the unseen creation of all sorts of life.
The perfect beer for this blog: Aslin’s Much Ado Helles, as bubbly as the play that inspires its name.
An Oktoberfest beer for October 1, one that reminds me of the coziness offered by fall and a hometown brewery.
7 Locks’ RyePA nods to my favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz. It also happens to nod to a key difference between the movie and the original book: Dorothy’s ruby slippers.
Nick Carraway’s exuberance for Gatsby echoes the over-the-top ebullience of America’s Jazz Age. The fizzy zippiness of Right Proper’s Berliner Weisse “Diamonds, Fur Coats, Champagne” lives up to both, with just the right sourness to echo the book’s tragedies.
I was better prepared to retake the tasting portion of my exam, to be sure - but I also approached the retake much more effectively. Here are my top tips on how to sit for the tasting portion of the Cicerone exam.