Thursday, January 1, 2015

Wrap up post #1 for 2014

It's been a long busy year and I have not kept up the blog even remotely as well as I should be.  I'll have a couple wrap up posts, starting with beer.
  1. New Belgium - Tour de Fall
  2. Sierra Nevada/Asheville Brewers Alliance - Tater Ridge
  3. Chimay - White (Cinq Cents) 
  4. Boulder Beer - Shake Chocolate Porter - This is awesomely good.  I need to try a suggestion of blending this with a Founders Rubaeus (raspberry wheat) to make a raspberry chocolate shake. 
  5. Lexington Brewing - Kentucky Pumpkin Barrel Ale
  6. Shipyard Brewing - Pumpkinhead Ale
  7. Epic Brewing/DC Brau - Fermentation Without Representation
  8. LoverBeer - BeerBara - Sour beer made with Barbera grapes; this is really nice and very interesting.  
  9. Allagash Brewing - Saison
  10. The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery - Märzen
  11. Brooklyn Brewery - Oktoberfest
  12. Anderson Valley Brewing - Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout
  13. Rogue Brewing - Mocha Porter
  14. Sierra Nevada - Bigfoot
  15. Hacker-Pschorr - Oktoberfest Märzen
  16. Saint Louis Brewery - Schalfly Oktoberfest
  17. Left Hand Brewing - Oktoberfest
  18. Nebraska Brewing Company - EOS Hefeweizen
  19. Long Trail Brewery - Long Trail Ale
  20. Three Brothers Brewing - Fairgrounds Fall Ale
  21. R.J. Rockers Brewing- Bell Ringer Ale
  22. Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers - Tinker Creek Kölsch
  23. Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers - White Top White Ale
  24. Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers - Oktoberfest
  25. Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers - Saison
  26. Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers - Virginia Creeper Pale Ale
  27. Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers - Switchback IPA
  28. Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers - Trailhead Nut Brown Ale
  29. Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers - Twisted Stump Porter
  30. Highland Brewing - Clawhammer Oktoberfest
  31. The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery - Brown Ale
  32. The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery - Hoppy Bunny ABA
  33. The Bruery - Oude Tart
  34. Avery Brewing - Rumpkin - This is a completely awesome pumpkin ale.  It's my new favorite, but be wary as it's 17%!
  35. Old Bust Head Brewing - Chukker Pilsner
  36. Old Bust Head Brewing - English Pale Ale
  37. New Belgium Hop Kitchen #7 - Hop The Pond
  38. Lancaster Brewing - Milk Stout
  39. Apocalypse Ale Works/Devils Backbone - Devil’s Secret
  40. Founders Brewing - Harvest Ale
  41. Avery Brewing - The Reverend
  42. New Belgium/Perennial Artisan Ales - Lips of Faith - Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout
  43. Left Hand Brewing - Wake Up Dead Imperial Stout
  44. Cigar City Brewing - Apricot Grove - If you like apricots and sour ales, this is one you need to try, unfortunately as far as I can tell it's only available on tap at the brewery.
  45. Cigar City Brewing - Papandos Moscas - Sour mango ale, good but not as the next one on the list!
  46. Cigar City Brewing/New Belgium - Jamaican Mango - In short, wow!  Another one that' sonly available at the brewery as far as I can tell.
  47. Cigar City Brewing - Maduro Brown Ale - Really nice brown - this is available in cans, but doesn't seem to be available in Virginia.
  48. Cigar City Brewing - Minaret ESB
  49. Cigar City Brewing/Playalinda Brewing - Whirlpool Session Pale Ale - Not your typical pale ale.  Hop profile is almost all tropical fruit and this beer went incredibly well with the korean meatball slider from the food truck outside the brewery!  Another beer I would have loved to bring home, but it was only available at the brewery (no growlers on this or the sours).
  50. Cigar City Brewing - José Martí American Porter
  51. Cigar City Brewing - Sun Spear
  52. Cigar City Brewing - Strawberry Shortcake - Tasted almost exactly like strawberry shortcake in a glass.
  53. Cigar City Brewing - Stiftung Berliner Weisse - A great example of a berliner weisse!
  54. Inlet Brewing - Monk IPA
  55. Southern Tier Brewing - 2XMAS
  56. Boston Brewing - Samuel Adams (Barrel Room Collection) - Tetravis
  57. Sierra Nevada/Victory Brewing - Alt Route
  58. Avery Brewing - Pump[KY]n - Good, but not as good as the Rumpkin.
  59. Avery Brewing - Old Jubilation Ale
  60. Sierra Nevada/Cigar City - Beer Camp -Yonder Bock
  61. Lagunitas Brewing - A Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Ale
  62. Oskar Blues - Mama's Little Yella Pils
  63. Samuel Smith - Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale
  64. Sierra Nevada - Celebration Ale
  65. Brasserie d’Achouffe - N'Ice Chouffe
  66. Schlossberg Eggenberg - Samichlaus Classic
  67. Bell's Brewery - Winter White Ale
  68. Great Divide Brewing - Hibernation Ale
  69. Firestone Walker - Opal
  70. Strangeways Brewing - Soledad (Bourbon Barrel Aged)
  71. Bear Republic Brewing - Racer 5 IPA
  72. Elgood's - Coolship Lambic - This is an awesome British (!!!) lambic.  Had on tap at Capital Ale House in Richmond.  
That's the last of the beers from 2014.  Final post will be a rather large gigantic wine update.
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