Road trip in Iowa.
Yesterday. Yeah, Dr Brown’s is easy to get where I call home, but this was a needed beverage with a kosher pastrami on rye in Des Moines.
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These this afternoon. Who knows what next and should I pull something out of the cellar for later? Edit:
I’m not sure why photos are not uploading properly.
HB clone of the now defunct Honkers Ale
Still clearing, nice flavor, nice spice-ish malt-ish beer.
Goes well with cheesy chicken corn potato bacon jalepeno chowdah
Stone IPA – This beer is kinda like a reunion, coming on home. Brewed here in SoCal, this was the IPA that started it all for me. This was back in the day when an IPA was an IPA, and a hazy was something you screwed up while fining your beer!
Back then I was able to pick up fresh kegs of Stone IPA at the nearby Escondido Flagship location. I bought a Sanke setup and trained on counter-pressure filling my flip-tops on those Stone IPA kegs. Stone was just miles ahead of me, I was still trying to figure out why my home brewed IPA’s turned brown. Those were the days!
Fantastic and iconic beer, one of the leaders in the movement. 6.9% ABV, perfect in all ways!
Today is feeling a lot like IPA Day around here. Truth be told, I grabbed this stovepipe out of the cold case thinking it was another can of Sierra Atomic Torpedo, which shares similar can color elements.
To my surprise, it’s a can of Lagunitas Maximus, 9.0% ABV West Coast IPA. Hey, these Green/Orange color schemes are beginning to mean one thing … Hammertime!
Boozy and full in presentation, this is a very balanced IPA, not so different from the Stone I just chugged, but higher ABV. So there are some warming elements to the alcohol, but the hopping and malt bill seems about the same to me. Medium carbonation, slight head, some lacing. Really a great West Coaster, give it a try!
Henninger Lager – I haven’t seen this one around here for a long while, and then here is appears at my local bottle shop. Make that Can Shop! I looked up some beer history here, looks like Henninger is the beer equivalent of that unloved package that gets sent back and forth across the country forever – looks like it has had many owners over the years. Not really a Pils and not really a Helles, just a straight-up golden lager. Roots go back to 1655, says 1869 on the can so who knows!
Anywho, based out of Hamburg, and currently brewed by Radeberger Gruppe, Henninger Lager is a completely balanced, flavor neutral, lager. Super easy to drink, this would be a fantastic hamburger and hot dog grilling brew, it’s perfect for that. Really clean, you can knock these 4.8% ABV, 500 ml cans back about one every 3 minutes. Don’t forget the fries, you’ll need some…… Prost!
Had a terrible night...leak upstairs rained down into the dining room. The plumbing is fixed but we have lots of water damage and insurance to deal with.
In better news, this gf Oktoberfest has reached brilliant clarity (hard to capture in pics)
Normally not a big fan of cocktails-in-a-can, but this was a freebie from the neighbor after I helped him fix his fence. Digging holes and shoveling concrete mix.
It's a Moscow mule. Not bad, needs more vodka. And ginger beer with more bite.
Relaxing out back. Listening to some Drive By Truckers. Been a nice fall day, sunny and 60.