Great Lakes Brewing Co.'s Christmas Ale has become something of a legend around Northeast Ohio. The bold ale is well regarded for its unique flavor characteristics and its heavy alcohol content. It is truly a hallmark of the season for beer drinkers in the region. Building on these strengths, Great Lakes has teamed with Mitchell's Homemade Ice Cream to develop Christmas Ale Ginger Snap ice cream. The limited edition treat comprises fresh organic ginger, Vietnamese cinnamon, honey, homemade ginger snap cookies and Christmas Ale residuals expelled after the bottle filling process. Christma...
Nothing evokes fall better than smell of burning leaves — or perhaps a sip of Sam Adams’s latest seasonal beer. The new entry in the Harvest Collection 12-pack is a strangely satisfying brew. It’s well-named too. Bonfire Rauchbier tastes like a bonfire, as though the beer has been left all day in a hot smokehouse. It’s hard to believe a beer can contain this much smokiness, but that quality is due to the specialty smoked malts. Rauchbiers, which date to the 16th century, were made with malts that had been dried for days over beechwood fires. It’s typically of dark color and has so...
Just when you think Google can’t possibly put its monstrous, technological, futuristic, world-liberating hands in anything else, the company teams up with Dogfish Head Brewing to create “URKontinent,” a beer developed with input from the online community around the world. If you’re not familiar with Dogfish Head, you’re missing out. The excellent Delaware-based craft-beer brewery declares that its purpose is creating “off-centered ales for off-centered people.” The company started as a small brewpub in June 1995, focusing on specialty craft beers, but they’ve since expanded ...
Bluegrass Brewing Company ages this stout for 60 days in barrels that once held Jefferson’s Reserve Bourbon. I unexpectedly lucked into this brew through a friend after a stressful committee meeting. I was extremely grateful — not just to have a good beer when I needed it, but have I mentioned that it’s aged in bourbon barrels? You find great beers sometimes in the most unlikely places. The beer poured dark chocolaty brown, looking almost black in the mug. The bubbly head had creamy foam that formed quickly but receded easily. Lacing was a thin bubbly collar which, when swirled, disap...
Here's the premise: We give this beer drinking dude Ryan a bunch of different beers which we have purchased at one of our favorite beers stores, Portage Lakes Brewing Co. (365 beers in store.,..one for every day of the year! Call 330-644-BEER ), and he takes them one by one to the head. If he gives it a thumbs up then we're good, otherwise, well you get the point. This week he has reviewed Sierra Nevada Glissade. Check the video below. Ryan's word: Many mountain climbers know the best way down a snowy hill is to employ a technique known as the glissade. This may sound hairy to...
Successful romance is all about compromises. If he endures a purse party, she relents for 25-cent wing night. If she puts up with near-constant “Family Guy” references, he will allow her to pick the color of the bathroom, and will not bitch if she picks lilac. Movies like “Knocked Up” and “The Sweetest Thing” enjoy popularity not, God knows, because of any high-quality comedic acting, but because they’re canny genre compromises between chick flick and bro film. Decades-long marriages are built on this kind of mindset: “How has it lasted 35 years? He buys me jewelry at Christmas...
