This has been a long time coming. And I do mean a LONG time. I have so many new beers that I have drank over the the past year …. well, really more then a year, that I have to divide it up into two posts.
Blue Mountain’s Classic Lager
From my Uncle Steve. Nothing spectacular about this one. Better then Yeungling, not as good as Sam Adams’ Boston Lager. A good session beer though, and was impressed with the amount of Brussels lace it left behind.
Blue Mountain’s Rockfish Wheat
From my Uncle Steve. This one surprised me. On the bottle below the Rockfish Wheat wording, it says Summer Weiss. I expected a lighter color, but it was darker then I expected. The taste however, wasn’t as heavy as one might think. It was heavier then a hefeweizen, but lighter then a weizenbock. Nice middle ground. The bits of caramel and banana in the taste was very pleasing to me.
Royal Oak Brewery’s Summer Wit
A reviewer on BeerAdvocate for this beer says that American brewers don’t make witbier quite the way you see out of Europe. They are very golden looking, which is seemingly out of character. I agree with him. It didn’t quite have the taste I was hoping for, but was still a pretty flavorful beer for the summer.
Philadelphia Brewing’s Walt Wit
I would say the same thing about this one as I would the Summer Wit above. Though the Walt Wit had more of a citrus flavor over the one above. I bought this in a case because it was six dollars cheaper then a case of Sam Adams’ Summer Ale, which I really like. It was a worthwhile investment.
Bell’s Oberon Ale
A friend from high school, Kate, whom I have reconnected with via Facebook, invited Marcia, Nigel, and I over for her and her husband’s July 4th BBQ when we were in town last. (She actually went with us to the Royal Oak Brewery as well.) She had a mini-keg of this. Now, I have never been impressed with anything by Bell’s. Not that they make bad beer. They just don’t excel in it. This though was the first one that made me take notice. It had a very nice lemon and malty wheat taste to it. I really like citrus flavored wheats for the summer. Maybe it helped coming from a keg, too. I stopped drinking it, though wanting more, for fear of consuming all of Kate’s beer.
Olde Richmond’s Brown Ale Batch No. 4
From my Uncle Steve. Very impressed with this. It was very dark and the aroma reminded me of a porter right off the bat. After the first taste led me to the same thoughts, I was thinking the bottle was mislabeled. It was creamy, but not overly so, with a nice robust chocolate-coffee-malt taste. I would love to have a case of this for the holidays.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
When will these old timers learn they can’t play with the 18,19, and 20 year old players of the NHL today?
NEW YORK — Brendan Shanahan is retiring from the NHL.
After 21 seasons and an almost certain Hall of Fame career, the 40-year-old forward announced Wednesday that he wouldn’t play again. After going through training camp with the New Jersey Devils, the team he spent his final season with, he and the club mutually parted unexpectedly shortly before opening night of the season.
That move came one day after Shanahan, who scored 656 career goals, was told there was no spot for him on the Devils’ top three lines.
He has not played this season.
Shanahan ranks 11th on the league’s career goals list and is the only player with 600 goals and 2,000 penalty minutes. The eight-time All-Star also played for the St. Louis Blues, Hartford Whalers, Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers.