Archive for the ‘Barleywine’ Category

Lost Abbey Angel’s Share

Hopry Special # 5 | Lost Abbey | Angel’s Share (Bourbon) | 12.5% ABV American Strong Ale | 96/100 Hello everyone! So I hoped you all enjoyed Saison Week as much as Tim and I did. After recording these three sessions, we both wanted to keep going (if you can believe it), so we did. [...]

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Lagunitas Brown Shugga

Lagunitas, from Petaluma, California, is known mostly for their amazing (and value-driven) Imperial IPA called Hop Stoopid. Luckily, we have finally been given the okay to get Lagunitas in Kansas and Missouri — so I have not been deprived by any stretch of the imagination. The first day I saw Hop Stoopid available here in [...]

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Mikkeller Big Worse

Damn I love a good barley wine! No other style of beer lets you know it’s in the house like these. I mean barley wines are the type of beers that can destroy your palate if you get them strong enough. That’s because the insane amount of bitterness that is required to stand up to [...]

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Sierra Nevada Bigfoot (2009)

Sierra Nevada is probably one of the first breweries to really gain momentum as a craft brewery. In the early days they used to call these producers of smaller quantity beers Microbreweries. But whatever you want to call them today, Sierra Nevada is easily one of the largest craft beer producers in the United States. [...]

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