Yup it's around that time where I'm brewing have a little time on my hands, and instead of school would love to write about something I truly love to spill words out of my mouth for....beer! Now for this one I decided to go hyper-nerd beer, I'm talking this one won't be trumped until someone has the legal rights to either go chewbacca's deep sensual brown ale, or Harry Potters blonde hemp ale (I'm sure both of which are currently being tossed around crazier heads than mine). No for this one I went into a category of nerdom that has caught fire across the United States, the Game of Thrones beer brewed by Ommegang in New York. Now for the most part I'm not the biggest fan of alot of the east coast brews, sometimes they just seem to lack that flavorful zing that the west coast beers just pop you in the mouth with. Since I'm a fan of the books (read every single one and eagerly await the next), and watch the show (best adaptation ever!), I felt an almost orgasmic drive to review this beer. This initial offering is a nice Belgian Golden Ale, or Blonde as it's labeled on the body. Also of note the second one is already getting ready with it being called the Night Watch Stout, I'm hoping a nice robust offering for the red wedding red beer I'm sure is coming hopefully in a much better setup and not as punny as I'm sure it has the ultimate possibility to sound like. Now upfront the beer accomplishes what it should as a belgian, it has that wonderfully lighty yeasty floral scent that the belgian yeast and beers do a wonderful job of accomplishing. It also seems to have a nice scent of zest or possibly lemon grass that tickles the nose perfect to set the mood in the early summer. The taste is the usual semi tastful blonde base that really needs the right combination of herbs and hops to really give it a character of it's own to make it more appealing then a mike's hard lemonade that's been aging in the sun for about a month or two. This one tends to have a real herbal sharpness to it upfront, which uses probably an herbal hop like hallertau to accomplish (some people are a fan, however I am but only in a powerful beer where that flavor does not decimate all. I'm not sure if they used any but on my tongue the late after taste gives the sort of juniper berry flavor, though light and not overpowering which I am a fan of, which could be the "spruciness" the bottle seems to claim. Lemon peel was added but mostly as a scent characteristic in my mind, you will not get the flavor of a blue moon, or wailua wheat (please don't judge I'm in Southeast Idaho and they were the best I could think of examples, I may cry if I dwell on this point to long). It's a real interesting mix, though not my favorite belgian blonde I've ever tasted. I'm really hoping the next ones blow my socks off because you would think in a specialized series with one offs you'd be making something pretty unique and not well done. My advice try harder and get off the little bus, I've had good beer from this brewery before so no excuses and come up with a stronger, richer recipe and not one that could be achieved by anyone coming off a peyote bender. Now onto the bottle artwork, now here is where the nerd part of me is just fainting like a little girl with this brew. The iron throne with some wonderful background art, and the game of thrones in golden writing, OMG OMG OMG!!! Hahahaha a little over the edge but I love it. I'd say it's worth a try if you come across it and it's not to ludicrously priced but if not you can find better in the belgian styles (try sound brewing). The nerd in me says must have though, like some stupid fish I took the worm, and have now been mounted for the glamour shot. Sit down grab a snifter and allow your nose to take in Westros.
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Game of Thrones
Yup it's around that time where I'm brewing have a little time on my hands, and instead of school would love to write about something I truly love to spill words out of my mouth for....beer! Now for this one I decided to go hyper-nerd beer, I'm talking this one won't be trumped until someone has the legal rights to either go chewbacca's deep sensual brown ale, or Harry Potters blonde hemp ale (I'm sure both of which are currently being tossed around crazier heads than mine). No for this one I went into a category of nerdom that has caught fire across the United States, the Game of Thrones beer brewed by Ommegang in New York. Now for the most part I'm not the biggest fan of alot of the east coast brews, sometimes they just seem to lack that flavorful zing that the west coast beers just pop you in the mouth with. Since I'm a fan of the books (read every single one and eagerly await the next), and watch the show (best adaptation ever!), I felt an almost orgasmic drive to review this beer. This initial offering is a nice Belgian Golden Ale, or Blonde as it's labeled on the body. Also of note the second one is already getting ready with it being called the Night Watch Stout, I'm hoping a nice robust offering for the red wedding red beer I'm sure is coming hopefully in a much better setup and not as punny as I'm sure it has the ultimate possibility to sound like. Now upfront the beer accomplishes what it should as a belgian, it has that wonderfully lighty yeasty floral scent that the belgian yeast and beers do a wonderful job of accomplishing. It also seems to have a nice scent of zest or possibly lemon grass that tickles the nose perfect to set the mood in the early summer. The taste is the usual semi tastful blonde base that really needs the right combination of herbs and hops to really give it a character of it's own to make it more appealing then a mike's hard lemonade that's been aging in the sun for about a month or two. This one tends to have a real herbal sharpness to it upfront, which uses probably an herbal hop like hallertau to accomplish (some people are a fan, however I am but only in a powerful beer where that flavor does not decimate all. I'm not sure if they used any but on my tongue the late after taste gives the sort of juniper berry flavor, though light and not overpowering which I am a fan of, which could be the "spruciness" the bottle seems to claim. Lemon peel was added but mostly as a scent characteristic in my mind, you will not get the flavor of a blue moon, or wailua wheat (please don't judge I'm in Southeast Idaho and they were the best I could think of examples, I may cry if I dwell on this point to long). It's a real interesting mix, though not my favorite belgian blonde I've ever tasted. I'm really hoping the next ones blow my socks off because you would think in a specialized series with one offs you'd be making something pretty unique and not well done. My advice try harder and get off the little bus, I've had good beer from this brewery before so no excuses and come up with a stronger, richer recipe and not one that could be achieved by anyone coming off a peyote bender. Now onto the bottle artwork, now here is where the nerd part of me is just fainting like a little girl with this brew. The iron throne with some wonderful background art, and the game of thrones in golden writing, OMG OMG OMG!!! Hahahaha a little over the edge but I love it. I'd say it's worth a try if you come across it and it's not to ludicrously priced but if not you can find better in the belgian styles (try sound brewing). The nerd in me says must have though, like some stupid fish I took the worm, and have now been mounted for the glamour shot. Sit down grab a snifter and allow your nose to take in Westros.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)