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Cascade Sang Royal - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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December 22, 2014 8:27 PM. I was going to just make a Royale With Cheese joke and whine about the metric system, but as with the beer itself, DDB beat me to it. By a few years. Instead I'll have to rely on pedantic translation backgrounding, like Sang Royal being French for "Royal Blood" and how popular it is to pretend that a given grape-based beverage is blood. Indeed, we're about the celebrate the birth of the guy who popularized the concept in just a few days. So what makes this one so special? So Ca...
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Midnight Sun Moscow - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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November 6, 2014 11:15 PM. Midnight Sun has some notoriety in beer nerd circles due to a few of their beers showing up on the pretty ridiculous White Whale list. So they had a pretty good run at one point, and while I'm pretty sure I'll never get to try Midnight Sun M. 11% ABV bottled (22 ounce bomber). Drank out of a snifter on 11/1/14. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Barrel of Monks (1). Birra Del Borgo (1). Birrificio Del Ducato (2). Blue Mountain Barrel House (1). Brasserie de la Senne (2).
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Midnight Sun Berserker - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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May 18, 2015 7:22 PM. Alaska is a cold place, so I guess it makes sense that brewers situated in that bleak environment would resort to big, heavy malts and lots of booze. And thank God that they do, because I love those beers. Midnight Sun exemplifies this approach, with a line of impressive imperial stouts. One of the best barleywines. I've ever had, and now this barrel aged monstrosity. 127% ABV bottled (22 ounce bomber). Drank out of a snifter on 5/15/15. Vintage 2015. 30 IBUs. Barrel of Monks (1).
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Kaedrin Beer Blog: Archives
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Blue Mountain Barrel House. Brasserie de la Senne. De Dochter van de Korenaar. Hair of the Dog. American Pale Wheat Ale. Belgian Strong Dark Ale. Belgian Strong Pale Ale. California Common / Steam Beer. English Dark Mild Ale. Extra Special/Strong Bitter (ESB). Fruit / Vegetable Beer. Barrel of Monks (1). Birra Del Borgo (1). Birrificio Del Ducato (2). Blue Mountain Barrel House (1). Brasserie de la Senne (2). Brasserie de Silly (1). Brouwerij Van Steenberge (1). Burlington Beer Co. (1). Dieu Du Ciel (4).
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Kaedrin Beer Blog: (512) Archives
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October 1, 2011 10:44 AM. I spent the last week watching horror, SF, action and just plain weird movies, not to mention hobbits beating the crap out of each other. See my other blog. For thoughts on the movies and other events of Fantastic Fest. Of course, nearly all of this was accompanied by beer. I must say, the Alamo Drafthouse. You can't got to Texas and not have at least one of these, right? Ok, so this isn't a local Texas beer, but New Belgium doesn't really distribute here (though they have start...
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Kaedrin Beer Blog: Ølfabrikken Archives
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December 22, 2011 7:39 PM. I've been drinking and reviewing lots of holiday beer recently, so I thought I'd take a step back and think about what makes a holiday beer a holiday beer. There are, of course, no easy rules for holiday beers, but there are a few approaches that seem to work really well. Oh, it's Christmas? Let's make our dubbel, but give it 3% more alcohol. That'll be fun. Then there's approach the third: do whatever the hell you want! This is typified by Sierra Nevada's Celebration. In which...
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Three Floyds BackMasking - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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May 5, 2015 11:35 PM. Remember all the paranoia about Satanic cults back in the 80s? This manifested in many ways, but one of the coolest is something called backmasking. That's when you can discover a hidden message if you play a recording backwards, usually something Satanic or generally meant to corrupt the youth of the day. The Beatles famously popularized the notion of backmasked music, but thanks to human beings' predilection for pareidolia. Now What is wrong with me? I was going to try and unearth...
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A Pair of Forest & Main Releases - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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A Pair of Forest and Main Releases. May 11, 2015 11:25 PM. Two beers at the latest release. One was Paradisaeidae. Named after a family of birds known as the Birds of Paradise, a barrel-aged saison brewed with Forest and Main's local saison yeast, conditioned on lemongrass and lime, and dry hopped with Motueka. I never knew this, but Forest and Main's saison yeast is foraged. It's unclear if every saison they make uses this foraged yeast, but the second bottle I snagged, Ash and Alder. As per usual, soli...
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Alpine Duet - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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May 14, 2015 10:45 PM. Of the west coast ballers of hoppy beer, Alpine seems to be among the top tier. Hushed tones and angelic choirs, I have been craving their wares for many a moon. I finally managed to snag a bottle in a cross-country trade, and then I find out that they've started distributing to Philly. Literally the day after I received this bottle of Duet in the mail, I spy a local beeratorium tapping. 7% ABV bottled (22 ounce bomber). Drank out of a Charente glass on 5/8/15. Naturally, I have an...
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Hammerhead - Kaedrin Beer Blog
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May 7, 2015 11:16 PM. Where the plane goes vertical, appears to stall, then rotates as the plane descends in a quarter loop so that it's made a full 180° turn. Or something. I'm clearly not a pilot, and haven't even really played one in video games. Introduced me to Hangar 24's barrel aged beer program, I quickly resolved to sample more from the series, and this Barleywine aged in rye whiskey and bourbon barrels certainly did the trick. So let's take this highway to the. Barrel of Monks (1). North by Nor...
