BeerCast #39 – Bières du Quebec Part 2
BeerCast #39 – Bières du Quebec Part 2 – CraigAS returns with second batch of beers from French-speaking Canada. Following on from the last podcast, we taste more Quebecois beers, from Scotch ales to a seriously hefty coffee infused imperial stout. As with podcast 38, the panel consists of CraigAS, Grooben, Shovels and Richard – big thanks to Craig for bringing the beers all the way back from Montreal.
1. L’Alchimiste L’Écossaise (5.0%)
2. Unibroue Raftman (5.5%)
3. McAuslan St Ambroise Oatmeal Stout (5.0%)
4. Dieu du Ciel! Péché Mortel (9.5%)
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Stone IPA
Recently on the BeerCast we quoted BrewDog co-founder James Watt’s opinion that British brewers had lost the sense of tradition when it comes to India Pale Ales. Modern mass-marketed IPA’s from this side of the Atlantic do tend to be session strength and lacking the hop bite of the old-fashioned versions of the past. The […]
Lagerboy Speaks – Coral
Lagerboy has stated on these pages previously that he enjoys tackling something seen as ‘The beer of…’, just to get a full sense of what the locals sit down to (or stand up for, or whatever) on a night out in their local bars. So it was with Estrella Damm, Zagorka and Lapin Kulta – […]
In praise of…Ye Olde Mitre
There are some wonderful pubs in London, many with histories stretching back several hundred years. One of these is Ye Olde Mitre, which was built in 1546 – during the reign of Henry VIII. There’s supposedly a more direct regal connection, as a youthful Queen Elizabeth I is said to have danced around the cherry […]
BeerCast #38 – Bières du Quebec Part 1
BeerCast #38 – Bières du Quebec Part 1. BeerCaster CraigAS recently returned to the UK after living in Montreal for several years. Home to a thriving beer scene, Quebec has some really inventive brewers – and thanks to Craig we managed to sample a few. In fact he brought so many over we had to split the podcast into two parts. Grooben, Shovels and Richard join CraigAS for francophone fun – please be warned this podcast contains some truly awful French.
1. Unibroue Blanche de Chambly (5.0%)
2. Dieu du Ciel Route des Épices (5.5%)
3. L’Alchimiste La Bock de Joliette (6.1%)
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New from BrewDog
Fraserburgh’s BrewDog are without doubt one of the most adventurous brewers in Scotland, a fact that earns them a huge amount of publicity on beer websites and blogs. However, they back this up with a variety of good beers – Hardcore IPA made it into our Beer of the Year Show for 2008, we’ve also […]
