I recently received cans of the latest #NonAlcoholicBeer from California-based #BestDayBrewing, a Mexican style lager with lime and sea salt, Electro-Lime Cerca de Cerveza. This new NA brew joins Best Day’s core lineup which consists of Kölsch-Style, West Coast IPA, and Hazy IPA.
Beer and cheese from the same abbey! A corresponding fresh grass and light yellow fruit fermentation character. The match is pretty good. Beer also has biscuit. Somewhat sweet, with a very light bitter in the finish. Quite bold for the low abv.
🍻 #craftbeer#beer#belgianbeer#AbbeyBeer@beersofmastodon
@Chrispyapple@beersofmastodon There's various abbeys that do this! La Trappe and Rochefort are two that I know of. Also, Maallust in the Netherlands (not an abbey) has a cheese maker right next door and they collaborate often.
A #brewery visit to Stadshaven in Rotterdam, with tasting and dinner. Impressively large scale operation, good for 2 million liters a year.
A large range of beers from lager and smoked märzen, through Belgian styles, Dutch Bock as well as IPAs, winter ales and porter. #beer#craftbeer 🍻 @beersofmastodon
Made our way to the other side of DEN to visit the other brewery that was recommended to us.
Airport #beer number two is Breckenridge Brewing's Agave Wheat.
This follows the theme of the prior beer in terms of being a style I enjoy, but don't love, being slightly elevated by a small addition. To be honest the agave comes across more as a honey flavor to me (although I am not known to have a particularly accurate palette), but the slight sweetness works well regardless.
@SJohnRoss I will have to check out Odell next time I'm in the area!
Totally with you on graphic design though. I do a yearly beer exchange with a buddy of mine, and "can design" is a very important part of our judging rubric.
Some days you NEED a #beer before the work day ends ... and sometimes a hasty pour makes a bigger mess of an afternoon. I'm having a Sticky Beans by Ever Grain Brewing Company. And I desperately need this 10% ABV imperial coffee stout in my belly. #ItsAlwaysStoutSeason@beersofmastodon
To tide us over between the brewery earlier and the pub to come we've dipped our hands into the fridge to select something from the craft ales Mystery Box we recently bought. It was a Wheat Beer and, seriously, who likes this stuff? Wheat beer is revolting. It's the Chardonnay of the wine world. It's the Campari of whatever world it is that Campari lives in. Its only purpose appears to be to make other drinks seem nicer.
I think that's a fair statement. I wasn't a particular fan before getting hooked on a much more robust wheat from the same brewery that was on tap at my local at the time. The Vitus. Just couldn't get enough of it.
@sumisu3 yes! Specifically for me, it's also the type of beer that I cannot quite as easily get as German lagers. No point brewing them if I can buy great ones around the corner for €1 a bottle, but Czech beers (other than Pilsner Urquell, Budvar, Staropramen in supermarkets; there's one bar serving Svijany and another one Vinohradsky here in Berlin) are pretty hard to get. So I need to brew that myself if I want to drink it, and I actually enjoy it.
@akrennmair definitely understand and agree with that. I don’t bother brewing NZ pale ale / IPA. Massive choice and quality for those, not to mention two award winning brewers 10 minutes from my house, and shelves full of those beers at the local grocery store.
