- Snapea Crisps - These are baked snap peas. We had the lightly salted version, but they have other flavors as well (we bought the Caesar, but haven't tried that yet).
- Garden of Eatin' Red Hot Blues Taco shells - Apparently they don't make these anymore (must have been limited time since we bought them only a couple weeks ago and they're not on their website). They do have regular blue corn taco shells though. The Red Hot Blue ones were delicious and a little spicy.
- Spinach noodles - Megan made this recipe and the noodles were excellent!
- Archer Farms Dark Chocolate Himalayan Salted Almonds - These are really really delicious.
- Kale pesto - We got a huge bunch of kale with our farm share so we made some pesto with it. It's a sharper taste than basil pesto, but it was still quite good.
Now for a few beer tastes.
- Verhaeghe - Duchesse De Bourgogne - This was nice, but was a bit thinner and sweeter than expected.
- Gueuzerie Tilquin - Oude Gueuze Tilquin à l’Ancienne - This is a blend of old and new lambic. Megan didn't like this as much as Brett.
- AleWerks Brewing Company - Tavern Ale - This is an okay brown ale - went well with food.
- AleWerks Brewing Company - Colonial Wheat Ale - This is a pretty nice wheat ale.
- AleWerks Brewing Company - Bitter Valentine - Neither of us is a huge fan of DIPA beers, but this was pretty good - hoppy, but still well-balanced by malt.
- AleWerks Brewing Company - Twenty Knots - This is supposed to be a tripel, but it's awfully thin and lacking the traditional tripel flavors. We really think this doesn't match the characteristics of a tripel and needs some modifications by the brewers to match style.
- Bells Brewery - Oberon Ale - a great spicy wheat beer.
- Boulevard Brewing Company - Boulevard Smokestack Series - Saison Brett - Obviously good - I mean look at the name! Brett loves saisons anyway - add in the earthiness and funk from Brettanomyces and this was awesome.
- Brasserie Rochefort - Rochefort Trappistes 10 - Classic quad from Belgium.
- Lagunitas Brewing Company - Brown Shugga - Barleywine is a bit big for summer, but this is still good and it was a cool evening.
- Foggy Ridge Cider - Handmade - Crisp and fresh like a champagne, with obvious yeasty/bread notes, but obviously apple flavors too - nice.
- Shmaltz Brewing Company - He’Brew / Cathedral Square St. Lenny’s - A rye IPA brewed with Belgian yeast - a little bit torn on this.
- Hauser Estate Winery - Jack’s Hard Cider Conewago Orchard - Definitely not a sweet cider, this is crisp and refreshing and comes in cans!
- Sweetwater Brewing Company - Sweetwater Blue - Blueberry notes on the nose, but not a lot on the palate (which is fine in our opinion). Okay, but not super.
- Humboldt Brewing Company - Humboldt Red Nectar - Dominated by malt notes, this would be better with food than drank alone.
- Anchor Brewing - Liberty Ale - One of the first Cascade hop IPAs (brewed in 1975), classic and still tasty.
- New Holland Brewing Company - Blue Sunday Sour (2014) - Really really good (and reasonably priced) sour ale from New Holland. So happy we have another bottle of this in the cellar!
- Brouwerij De Troch - Chapeau Faro - Faro is a lambic-style beer, but with added sugar (post fermentation). This was really sweet and not our cup of tea at all.
- New Belgium Hop Kitchen #6 / Odell FOCOllaboration Pale Ale - This is only available on tap on this side of the country and that's disappointing. We're a bit tired of the IPA trend and a pale ale, with its softer hop levels and better balance with the malt, is much more our taste right now. If you live near Colorado and can get this in bottles, we highly recommend stocking up!
- New Belgium / Three Floyds Lips Of Faith - Grätzer Ale - This is a traditional Polish style ale made with oak-smoked wheat. This is smoky, spicy, and great with grilled food.
- Birra del Borgo - Rubus - Italian sour with raspberries. Just say yes! Crisp and bright without being overly fruity.
- Fiddlehead - Second Fiddle - The name represents their secondary status to Heady Topper. Honestly, this is better than Heady Topper in our opinion.
- Green Flash Brewing - Palate Wrecker - Not as much as a palate wrecker as the name might suggest. We've certainly had far hoppier, far more ridiculously hopped beers that weren't nearly as polished or tasty as this. While certainly very hoppy, it's still nicely balanced and not just an overwhelming sense of chewing on hop flowers.
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