Belgian Beer

We've listed Hackney's Printers Row as being one of Chicago's underrated beer bars before. This week they're giving up their taps to only local craft beers, highlighted by a rare beer tapping 6 p.m. Thursday. Hackney's will tap Metropolitan’s Generator Dopplebock, Two Brothers Red Eye Porter brewed with Dark Matter coffee, Two Brothers Circus Penguin Pale Ale brewed with organic beets and blood oranges, and Finch's Witness Belgian Pale Ale...  

Join BeerAdvocate at The Publick House in Brookline, MA and be one of the first to taste this Bière de Champagne-style (11%) and flagship beer from Enlightenment Ales, a new nano-brewery in Lowell, MA by Ben Howe, who will also be on-hand to discuss his ...  

From the day the Madinat Jumeirah’s Belgian Beer Café opened, we knew we liked the place: a wonderful view, chilled environment and amazing food, it ticked all the boxes, so when the opportunity to try out the brand new Friday brunch popped up, we ...  

Independent brewer Bath Ales has launched its latest seasonal brew, called Summer's Hare. The brewer said the beer is light, hoppy and "well balanced with some fruit and malt". It has been brewed using pale Maris Otter floor-malted barley and a mix of Bramling Cross and Chinook hops.  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Horse blanket, face puckering, sour and sweaty are all adjectives to describe the beer category that is the basis for our beery subject of lambic beers. Lambics are beers that are spontaneously fermented by wild yeast and bacteria nati...  

Yesterday, one of my favorite beer events of the year took place. The annual Toronado Belgian Beer Dinner with food by Sean Paxton, the Homebrew Chef, ran to twelve courses and was paired with 21 different Belgian and Belgian-inspired beers. Including the beers that were used as ingredients in each dish, a total of 48 [...]  

I just learned that one of my favorite beer events of the year still has a few seats left. The annual Toronado Belgian Beer Dinner — really a luncheon — or I like to call it, a Blunch, is this Sunday, April 1, and that’s no joke. The food for this always amazing beer dinner [...]  

Here's a very focused sort of beer festival: Drink Craft Beer, an online beer community and beer education website, is sponsoring a festival in July that will celebrate farmhouse ales. Farmhouse ales, also known as saisons, are light Belgian ales ...  

The next Session is taking place on Friday, June 1, and it’s being hosted by Carla Companion, The Beer Babe, that month. She’s bringing us back to styles and has selected what may be the most underrated style to write about these days: What is the one beer style usually makes up the first position in the sample flight, but yet is usually the one that we never get really excited about? The Pale Ale. While this style serves as the foundation to...  

In collaboration, premier craft beer breweries Oskar Blues Brewery of Lyons, CO, and Sun King Brewing Co. of Indianapolis, IN, are bringing a sleek new packaging silhouette to craft beer retail shelves. The breweries are introducing Chaka, a limited ...  

What the folks at Avondale Brewing say about Miss Fancy’s Tripel: Miss Fancy’s Tripel is a strong Belgian golden ale. The term tripel is a style of beer that is meant to indicate strength of alcohol. This unique Belgian ale is rich in flavor ...  

Three Ohio breweries took home medals ... he made the beer because his girlfriend Sarah enjoys barrel-aged golden ales. The beer is named after her. Rock Bottom just tapped a keg of Sarah's Two Headed Buffalo and has a limited supply available.  

Beach Haus® Kick Back Ale - an American Amber Ale that will interest fans of the American pale ale, but offer more body, caramel richness and a balance more towards malt than hops. The much-anticipated launch of the New Jersey Shore-based East Coast Beer ...  

Kick Back Ale. This American amber ale will interest fans of the American pale ale, but offer more body, caramel richness and a balance more toward malt than hops. Kick Back will be available wherever Beach Haus beers are sold. "This is really ...  

As Canada's leading craft brewer, Big Rock boasts a family of 12 exceptional ales and lagers, Rock Creek dry cider and an ongoing selection of seasonal beers to be released through the Brewmaster's Edition. Big Rock products are sold in nine provinces and ...  

Some of the beers to be on tap include Odell IPA, 5 Barrel Pale Ale, Levity Amber Ale, 90 Schilling ... Odell Brewing is located in Ft. Collins, CO and is a major part of the craft beer community throughout the state. Their passion to brew great tasting ...  

Dan Murphy's will now range the 650ml Kiwi Pale Ale and Bohemian Ale from the McCashins' Stoke Bomber range, alongside the brewer's mainstay range of ales; Stoke Gold, Dark and Amber. Brewery spokeswoman Emma McCashin told TheShout the Bomber ...  

I like the way this festival is set up because it encourages relaxed enjoyment of beer as opposed to rapid consumption. Many beer festivals have three or four hour blocks of time where you follow cattle chutes from brewery to brewery and pour as many ...  

The basis of British beer for centuries before industrialization was the basic brown ale. These ales stretch back ... Instead of producing a darker brown ale, a high gypsum content in the water chemistry provided clarifying agents for the beer, resulting ...  

Sunnyvale's Faultline Brewing Company recently announced their two seasonal beer selections for April - Golden Ale (an American-style Blonde Ale) and Belgian Tripel, adding that most of their seasonal beers do not last for more than two months. Smoke ...  

Samuel Adams is known for brewing some of the most popular seasonal beers on the market today. With brews such as Cranberry Lambic, Mighty Oak Ale and Rustic Season, this should come as no surprise to the seasoned beer drinker. Samuel Adams also offers ...  

before my palate was cluttered with other brews (and O’Brian’s ridiculously good guacamole, which I think I ate several pounds of). The beer poured a somewhat hazy golden hue with a big fluffy white head. The aroma smacked the olfactory with ...  

LAKELAND | Florida's emergence as a real player in the increasingly lucrative field of craft beer hit a snag at last week's World Beer Cup competition in San Diego ... 1 hottest startup in the country in 2010 by Entrepreneur magazine, Cigar ...  

Omission Beer introduces the first two beers in its gluten-free craft beer portfolio: Omission Lager and Omission Pale Ale. (Photo: Business Wire) Brewed by Widmer Brothers Brewing in Portland, Ore., Omission beers are brewed using a proprietary brewing ...  

A FORMER Irish bar is re-opening as a real ale pub named after Durham’s own Dick Whittington. The John Duck in Claypath ... It is undergoing a major refurbishment after being bought by local businessman Andrew Ward who also owns the Elm Tree and ...  

This year the Tourists will feature more craft beer, with six new specialty taps at the ballpark. Highland Brewing returns with its flagship Gaelic Ale and a rotating seasonal, starting with Little Hump spring ale. French Broad will pour Gateway ...  

The third largest craft brewer in the United States has chosen North Carolina for the location of its east coast brewery. New Belgium Brewing, which brews Fat Tire Amber Ale and 1553 Enlightened Black Ale, plans to create as many as 154 jobs and invest ...  

NTNews.com.auIf you want to lose weight, drink beerNTNews.com.auDarwin's Rocket Griffiths loves an ale and if the latest study is right his weight gain might be down to his meal a day, not the beer diet. Picture: DANIEL HARTLEY-ALLEN THE amber ale may one day help grog-loving Territorians lose weight and fight off ...  

He left a legacy that has craft brewers across the country, including four Fort Collins breweries, rallying to save the mine by doing what they do best -making beer. Williams' gold mine beer parties were legendary throughout the craft beer world.  

Inc., have joined up with Hopleaf to create another multi-course Ancient Ales Dinner May 15 at 7 p.m. Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione will be in Chicago for this event, which pairs the beers in the Ancient Ales line with courses specially ...  

Before this week I wasn't familiar with the name Danny Williams, but after reporting on a beer brewed in his honor I feel like I knew him personally. Williams worked with the Brewers Association helping gather beers for the Great American Beer ...  

Half Pints Brewing Company, which was opened in 2006 by brewmaster Dave Rudge and CEO Nicole Rudge, is the province’s only Manitoba-owned brewery and sole craft beer-maker. In addition to their regular brews St. James Pale Ale, Bulldog Amber Ale ...  

The other favorite was Farmer's Tan, an imperial pale lager from Southern Tier Brewing ... We tasted The Vixen from Samuel Adams last, because we did not want to ruin our palates. It is a chocolate chili bock with cinnamon at 8.5 percent alcohol ...  

Columbus Alive! has named the Columbus Brewing Co. as the best brewery in the city as part of its Best of Columbus awards. "CBC’s beers are well-crafted and easy to find," the paper wrote. "You can grab a fresh brew at the flagship restaurant ...  

Only at the Historic Flight Foundation would an extra six pack of beer be delivered by a B-25 twin-engine bomber. That's exactly what is planned for Beer Flights, a fundraiser, auction, beer and food event on May 18 at Kilo-7.  

Ale is defined as a beer brewed with top-fermenting yeast. Ales are brewed in a wide variety of colors and strengths. Rating: 4 pints out of 5 Beer review: This is an interesting little nugget from Orkey. “Skull Splitter takes its name from ...  

Monks have been brewing beer since the Middle Ages. The best known of the monastic brews are the Dubbels, Tripels, and Quadrupels of the Trappist monks in Belgium. But, the brethren in Germany also had a hand in brewing ales with the Doppelbock.  

Alternatively, Lafayette Brewing Co. collaborated with K. Dees, a local coffee shop, to create a Hazelnut Black Angus Oatmeal Stout. I also heard that the only good thing to come out of Bloomington was Upland Wheat, but maybe that’s just a brouhaha.  

Griffin may seem an unlikely place for an authentic English-style brewery. But the Eagle and Lion is the rare vision of owner/brewer Mark Broe, a man on a mission to make cask-conditioned “real ale” readily available, mainly because it’s ...  

Griffin may seem an unlikely place for an authentic English-style brewery. But the Eagle and Lion is the rare vision of owner/brewer Mark Broe, a man on a mission to make cask-conditioned “real ale” readily available, mainly because it’s ...  

Lambics, the wild-yeast wheat beers of Belgium, gave rise to Biere de Mars ... much stronger than Biere de Mars of days gone by. Eric Pera can be reached at 802-7528 or eric.pera@theledger.com. Check his blog postings at ...  

If we didn't have kids we would live here! Can't say enough about their beer selection...prefer the front bar atmosphere...must try for anyone who appreciates the art of beer! Food selection is…  

This might just be our wildest “It Might Get…” yet! We are Proud to be selected to help launch Milwaukee Brewing Company to Chicago. We will have: Louie’s Demise Amber Ale, Pull Chain Pale Ale, BOOYAH Saison, Hop Happy IPA and Oh Gii Wit.  

Beer: Trappist Westvleteren 12Brewery: Brouwerij WestvleterenStyle: QuadrupelABV: 10.2 percent It usually follows that the most highly rated beers in the world are also the hardest to get....  

New Belgian beer bar on College Ave, Guest Chef talks TV deals, New York-style deli in the works, and more Rockridge dining news; all in this week's Dish!  

Bitchin’ Bourbon Barrel Ale is a 9 percent ale made with Ohio maple syrup, vanilla beans and Belgian yeast. “T hat’s what brewing is all about: Experimentation,” Reda, a homebrewer for more than 15 years, said about the ingredients.  

Tucked inside a hillside in Sunshine Canyon thousands of rare beers from around the globe line the rock walls of an old gold mine, the temperature keeps the beers cool.  

It will be bottoms up next week when ale aficionados raise their glasses for the Lincoln Beer Festival.