July 3, 2009
I couldn’t think of a more fitting beer review for the 4th of July holiday than Liberty Ale by San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing Company. Liberty Ale was first introduced in April 1975 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Paul Revere’s historic ride, and so I thought it would also be fitting to review it on July 4 2009 for America’s 233rd year of Independence! Maybe you’ll consider Anchor’s Liberty Ale as a good beer choice for your 4th of July party or BBQ!
This is The Brew Club’s 3rd Anchor beer review. Last year we checked out Anchor Bock which I thought was a really nice beer, and also the Anchor 2008 Christmas Beer which I could appreciate, but didn’t like as much because it was just toooooo hoppy for my taste! How’s the Liberty Ale going to rate?
The first thing I noticed about the 6%ABV Anchor Liberty Ale was the strong aroma of hops as soon as I popped open the bottle. As I understand it, Anchor has something of a reputation regarding dry-hopping their beers and perhaps that’s the reason, or maybe this was just designed to be a hoppy smelling (and tasting?) beer.
As you can see in the picture, this beer produced a huge foamy cream-colored head and it really was slow to go down! Once it did, there remained a thick, foamy layer on the beer and the lacing was rather clingy as well. I’d say the Liberty Ale is something of a cloudy medium straw color, and looking closely at the beerI could see interesting patterns of very fine sediment floating around. I really wish I could get a decent picture of that. It seems awfully trivial but I thought it was quite interesting and cool looking!
Getting on to the aroma, as I mentioned previously the most dominant ingredient was sweet hops. I’m not a big fan of overly-hopped beers and I tend to shy away from them, but this beer reminded me of the aforementioned Anchor Christmas beer…to an extent. While I remember being able to smell the Anchor Christmas beer from almost across the room, the Liberty ale is much more subtle, more mild. Anyway, that’s what it reminded me of.
I know this beer isn’t technically an IPA, but it looks and smells like an “IPA light” to me, and the taste is pretty much there too. The taste follows the smell quite closely I think with floral hops being the biggest part of the flavor. I thought this beer was relatively smooth drinking because while it had a dominant hop flavor, it wasn’t of the biting or stinging variety which is usually a turn off for me.
The Anchor Liberty Ale left a slightly bitter aftertaste and I experienced a really dry mouthfeel that I just personally don’t like. I can appreciate the care and craftsmanship that goes into making the Anchor Brewing Liberty Ale, but it’s simply not a style of beer that I tend to enjoy all that much. If you like beers with a bit more of a hop presence, then Liberty Ale is a smooth drinker that you might want to consider trying.
For me, I’m glad I had it especially considering the motivation behind its creation, but I’ll probably pass on it in the future and so I’m only able to give it a 2.5 star rating. Your mileage may vary.
Rating: 
Have you tried the Anchor Brewing Liberty Ale? Its been around since 1975, so chances are you might have! What did you think of it?
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July 1, 2009
Bohemia Regent is the last beer in my short set of dark lager beer reviews. As I’ve mentioned before, dark lagers have a long heritage, dating back hundreds of years before the creation of Pilsner Urquell in 1842.
A prime example of this heritage is Bohemia Regent in Trebon, where brewing can be traced back as far as 1369 (not 1379 as I’d previously reported - doh!).
A brewery was first constructed within the Rosenberg castle in Trebon, in 1482, with extensive lagering cellars and artesian wells providing pure spring water. It was rebuilt to cater for growing demand in 1522 and again in 1560 on the site of the old Rosenberg castle armoury; and again with a new brewery constructed between 1706 and 1712. Even this was not enough to satisfy demand for the brewery’s beers, and the brewery as we would now recognise it was constructed in the second half of the 19th century.
The brewery prospered during the industrial revolution, with its beers being exported to Brussels, Paris and Vienna on the new railway networks. It was not so fortunate however, after the first world war; sales plummeted and production halved.
The brewery limped through the 20th century, surviving the privations of the second world war and the communist era before being privatised after the ‘velvet revolution’ of 1989. After a brief period of ownership by South Bohemia Breweries It is now once again independent - being owned by two brothers - Messrs Ferdinand and Vaclav Stasek.
According to the Brewery’s website, the name ‘Bohemia Regent‘ is taken from the local knight ‘Jakub Kr?ín’ from Jel?any (1533 - 1604), who grew from being an accountant in Rosenberg to becoming the regent of large parts of the kingdom of Bohemia, and was known as the ‘the uncrowned king of the Bohemian kingdom’. He was however, famously cruel to his workers and legend has it that “he rides along the thin strip of land between the lake of Rozmberk and Kanov (which was built specifically for him) at midnight in a carriage drawn by two cats, because he cannot get peace even after his death.” - hey this is folklore, I don’t make this stuff up!
Thinking about a ghostly carriage being drawn by two cats is enough to drive one to drink, so let’s turn our attention to the brewery’s Tmave (or dark) lager offering. Judging by the short shelf life this is an unpasteurised brew, brewed to 4.4%, which is closer in strength to most dark Czech lagers. It pours with a creamy head, both in colour and consistency, there’s not much in the way of nose, either chilled or at room temperature.
And the flavour, to be honest, disappoints.
Flavour wise it’s much closer to the Cusquena dark than the other Czech dark lagers I tried recently. There’s no coffee, chocolate or liquorice… in a blind tasting I don’t think I could single this one out.
I’d give this 2 stars, with some sadness, I was expecting more.
Rating:
Having tasted a bunch of dark lagers I think my preferences are:
Last year, The Brew Club also reviewed the San Miguel Dark Lager and Negra Modelo. That’s a lot of dark lagers!
I’d welcome your thoughts if you’ve found any dark lagers, I’m still hoping to try and find Tsing Tao dark this summer.
Bob the Brit
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June 29, 2009
Saturday night I had the opportunity to try some of the award-winning beers from Chelsea Brewing Company!
My wife and I were invited to a BBQ at the home of the Chelsea Brewing brewmaster, Chris, who in addition to being a certifiable grill-master and all-around excellent host, makes some really good beers! I was happy to get to try four of them- on tap nonetheless!
I wasn’t able to do ‘real’ beer reviews on the beers offered, (no pictures or deeper analysis - sorry) but I’ll quickly list what I had. There was also a lot of food to contend with - I’m sure you understand. 
My favorite beer of the night was the Chelsea Brewing Black Hole XXX Stout. This beer won bronze medals at the 2005 and 2008 Great American Beer Festival for foreign-style stout, and it even picked up a Gold in 2002! I really like stouts, and this one was just amazing. Everything a stout should be! It reminded me a bit of the Left Hand Milk Stout, but even better!
I was also able to try their ‘Checker Cab Blonde Ale‘ which created a huuuuuge head. It had a light body, was a little sweet and I thought it was just fabulous for a warm night.
Also on tap that evening was their unfiltered Summer Wheat which I don’t specifically remember but it WAS good! The Chelsea Summer Wheat won a Gold medal at the 2004 GABF so I’m not the only one who liked it!
Also available for consumption was the Sunset Red Ale which was a little darker, and while also light bodied it was more spicy and hoppy than the rest. In 1997, the Sunset Red won a gold medal in its class!
Again, sorry this post is not more in-depth, or laden with pictures, I could have done better but I was more concerned with enjoying the food, beer and company than analyzing everything! Still, I just want to say thanks to Chris and his Wife for having us over with their friends for some good food and some great beer!
If you’re ever in Manhattan, Chelsea Brewing Company has a 12,000 sq ft restaurant and brewery located on on pier 59. Go check them out and perhaps you too can try some of their award-winning beers!
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June 27, 2009
I’ve noticed an increasing number of dark lagers on the shelves of late, so decided to explore a few for The Brew Club.
Dark Lagers can trace their lineage back to before Joseph Grolle ‘invented’ Pilsner in 1842, before Grolle all beers tended to be dark and cloudy, and those brewed using the European bottom fermenting techniques would be lagers. The first to gain a reputation for its dark lager beers was Kulmbach in Franconia, Germany where monks have been brewing since 1349.
What has tended to happen in recent years is that brewers seeking to enlarge their ranges beyond a pale pilsner style lager will introduce a dark lager. Examples include Budweiser Dark from the Czech Republic, Tsingtao Dark from China and the two examples I present before you now.
Asahi Black
Asahi (the name means ‘Rising Sun’) was launched by the Osaka Brewing Company in 1892, and from day one the beer was well regarded, internationally winning prizes at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, and a gold medal at the Paris World Expo in 1900.
1900 was also the year when the company launched ‘Asahi Draft Beer’ Japan’s first bottled draft beer, which I confess sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Asahi Super Dry was launched in 1987, fast becoming the most popular beer in Japan, and then in 1995 the company launched Asahi Black (Asahi Kuronama), Japan’s first dark lager.
In recent years Osaka Brewing has been building strategic alliances, allowing them to brew ‘foreign’ beers in Japan under licence, while Asahi Super Dry is now brewed under licence by Molson in Canada, Fosters in Australia, Staropramen in the Czech Republic and Shepherd Neame here in the UK.
Asahi Black, however, is still brewed only in Osaka, Japan.
Asahi Black is, as its name suggests, a dark lager. No, make that a VERY dark lager. That means you get the light body and refreshment you would expect from a lager, while the roasted barley gives a richer taste.
You get a rich creamy head when you pour this, slightly caramel in colour, the head lasts a while and leaves a trace of lacing down the glass. Remember, this isn’t a full bodied stout or porter. The nose has just a whiff of coffee.
The flavour is a good balance of malt and hops, not too bitter, not too sweet, and at the same time, not too ‘dark’. Your palate isn’t assaulted by coffee, chocolate or liquorice; it’s very refreshing.
Dark lagers are not to everyone’s taste, but this is a good example of the style. Brewed to 5% ABV this is perhaps deceptive, I suspect that after a few it would creep up on you.
Rating:
Cusquena Dark
While exploring dark lagers (and I’ve found a few recently) I stumbled across Cusquena Dark. For refrence, I reviewed the original pale Cusquena lager last year. At that time I gave it three and a half stars, although I was tempted to give it four; I found it to be light, mellow and refreshing “ Imagine a summer picnic, one of those endless summers just before you left high school…” it was THAT good, so you can imagine, when I saw Cusquena dark on the shelf I snatched a couple of bottles.
What a disappointment!
Yes it was dark, but that was about it. The dark roast barley succeeded in taking everything that was good about the pale brew and replacing it with a bland malty mess - a bland malty mess brewed to 5.6% ABV (as opposed to the 4.6% ABV of the pale lager), but a mess nonetheless.
The original didn’t have much nose, and this is the same, nothing, nada, nowt… and the flavour was neither refreshing, flavourful nor worth repeating. Of course I did, having tried the first bottle chilled, I tried the second at room temperature, and was equally disappointed.
All in all, given that this beer had been shipped some eight thousand miles, I have to say it wasn’t worth the freighting. I can get plenty of bland tasteless beers brewed more locally!
1 star (and that’s being generous)
Rating:
What do you think of Dark Lagers? Do you have a favorite?
Bob the Brit
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June 24, 2009
You might recall that I recently reviewed Budweiser’s dark lager; Budweiser Dark is a fairly recent development, but dark lagers (or Tmavé as they’re known) have a much longer history.
The oldest of these is probably ‘Bohemia Regent’ which is brewed at the brewery in Trebon, founded in 1379, and I’m keeping my eye out for a few bottles to review!
Let’s put that date in perspective, they’d been brewing dark lager there for nearly five hundred years before Joseph Grolle brewed the first Pilsner and were brewing over a hundred years before Christopher Columbus set sail!
Similarly, the well known U Flecku beer hall in Prague has been selling its dark, slightly sweet Tmave since 1499.
Two other classic dark brews we encountered when we were exploring Czech brews back in the early nineties were the brews from the Bernard and Herold breweries, both were brewed above 5% ABV, as opposed to most dark lagers which are brewed to around 3.5% and are considered, in the Czech Republic, to be “women’s drink”.
Dark lagers are brewed using the bottom fermenting yeasts and are stored (or lagered) for an extended period, as are pale lagers, but the barley used for the malt is roasted to give the distinctive dark colour and coffee/chocolate flavours. They tend to also be sweeter than pale lagers.
Bernard Dark Lager
The Bernard brewery was founded in the town of Humpolec in 1597, in the hills that form the border between the ancient kingdoms of Bohemia and Moravia. The brewery has its own well, providing its own supply of soft, crystal clear water, and the brewery sources its malt from Rajhrad near Brno in Moravia - now in Slovakia. The Saaz (or Zatec locally) hops are sourced from the vast hop fields in Bohemia.
When we first encountered Bernard’s beers, the brewery had suffered, as Michael Jackson poetically put it, from ‘the benign neglect of the Communist period’.
In October 1991, shortly after the ‘Velvet Revolution’ a consortium led by Stanislav Bernard launched the revival of the brewery and they quickly regained the brewery’s reputation. The brewhall has been described as ‘designer chic’, but their commitment to lagering is commendable, with the dark lager enjoying a full 40 days cool storage. The brewery’s growing reputation attracted the attention of Duvel-Moortgat who bought a 50% stake in 2001.
All the Bernard beers are sold unpasteurised, the brewery describing pasteurisation as “drastic treatment, when the beer is given a shock by being “torn” from the calm of the lager cellar, (it) guarantees a longer lifetime for the beer, but damages its taste and colour”.
Instead the beers are microfiltered : “It is more demanding, but certainly more honest towards consumers. At the end of the process, while the beer retains its temperature of 2°C, we filter it through a special microbe filter, in which all the micro-organisms are trapped. Thus the beer does not change in flavour or aroma and you really get what we took care of for so long in the lager cellar.”
Amen to that - the beers get a final kick of yeast added to the swing-top bottle and despite being unpasteurised have a reasonable shelf life.
Bernard Dark pours with a full, creamy head and offers a nose that’s slightly more chocolate than coffee - think mocha coffee and you’re in the right direction. The head slowly subsides, leaving a trace of lacing.
The flavour follows the nose, with hints of chocolate, coffee and, somewhere in the mix, a hint of black cherry… sort of Black Forest Gateau. Despite this, it’s light, refreshing and not too full bodied, despite being brewed to 5.1% ABV, it’s still very much a dark lager, as opposed to a stout or a porter.
I’d give this three and a half stars, it’s a creditable dark lager, creditable craft beer, but not quite the Bernard I recall from the old days. The extra half star is for taking the trouble to filter instead of pasteurisation.
Rating:
Herold Dark Lager
Herold is brewed at the Breznice Castle Brewery, founded in 1506 by Petr Malovec, but the brewery was confiscated in 1531 when Malovec was implicated in a revolt against the king, Ferdinand I. The brewery was given to the local Loksans family, who gifted the brewery to the citizens of Breznice - just as well as the Loksans were subsequently involved in a revolt against the governing Austrian empire and their rights and privileges were confiscated.
This was Europe, remember, borders and governments shifted frequently.
The brewery in its current form was started in 1720, within what is described as a ‘baroque chateau’ and while brewing continued up to and through the second world war, the privations of the communist regime at the end of the 20th century took its toll.
Investment after the ‘velvet revolution’ of 1989 returned the brewery to private ownership and with American investment it was resurrected as a craft microbrewery, with its brews winning awards for ‘best beer’ at the Stockholm International Festivals of 1996 and 1997.
The Herold Bohemian Black Lager is brewed to 5.3% ABV brewed with four malts and then lagered for a full ten weeks.
It pours with a full creamy head, that subsides quite quickly, the nose is black coffee, this time with a hint of smoke - interesting.
The drink is light and crisp, closer to a pale lager, as is the hoppy bite that follows the initial smoky coffee hit. It’s definitely closer to a pilsner than the Bernard that has that slight sweetness that puts it closer to Budvar / Czechvar.
I’d give this three stars, it’s a competent brew that is worth seeking out.
Rating:
So, overall, I think I would go for the Bernard over the Herold, but to be honest, neither disappoint.
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June 21, 2009
Further to my recent beer review of Budweiser ‘Budvar’ for The Brew Club, I thought I should also provide you with a review of the Budweiser Dark Lager.
Dark lagers are a mystery to most people, the assumption tends to be pale = lager, dark = ale, black = stout (or porter) but as I discussed in an earlier article, the heart of a lager is a different brewing process. Lagers are brewed using bottom fermenting yeasts that act at lower temperatures and the resulting brew is stored (lagered) for up to a year to mellow further before being brought to market.
If the grain being used to make the brew has been roasted before being malted then the ensuing drink will reflect the extent of that roasting, both in flavour and colour. Very much like roasting coffee beans.
Several dark lagers were featured at last summer’s ‘Beer Exposed‘ exposition here in London and were well received by the drinkers present.
Traditionally, in the Czech Republic, dark lagers (known as Tmave) were considered to be “women’s drinks”. The men would consume vast steins of frothy pale lager, brewed to around 5% ABV, while ‘the ladies’ would timidly sip smaller glasses of 3.5% dark lager. With a few notable exceptions; ‘Bohemia Regent’ (which is brewed at the brewery in Trebon - founded in 1379 (and no that’s not a typo - 1379)) has always been brewed to around 4.5% and ‘Herold’ dark lager from the Breznice Brewery (founded 1506) comes in at 5.2%. Both brews are available in the USA and reward the curious drinker with bold coffee aromas and a bitter chocolate flavours with hints of liquorice.
Budweiser Budvar Dark was first brewed in the Budweiser brewery in Ceske Budovice back in 2004, and at 4.8% ABV it’s respectably close to the 5% of their traditional pale lager. Like the pale lager it’s brewed with saaz hops and lagered beneath the brewery for a full 90 days; but unlike the pale lager, the roasted barley provides a latte coloured head coupled with a coffee aroma that puts starbucks to shame. That’s despite being served chilled.
The mouth feel, as with all dark lagers is unexpected, your eyes see the dark liquid and coffee coloured head and braces your palate for a full bodied dark ale, but instead you are presented with a comparatively light lager. It’s unexpected, but not unpleasant.
The flavour follows the nose, with rich dark roasted coffee flavours subsiding to a refreshing hoppy bite. This is a beer that satisfies on several levels, but, I suspect not one I would drink too often, the sweetness of the traditional pale Budweiser swings it for me.
Rating: - great but just not for everyday drinking.
And there’s a bar in London, the Lord John Russell in Bloomsbury that I found from Stonch’s excellent beer
blog that serves both pale and dark Budweisers on draught, as well as a special ‘half and half’ mix - known in the Czech Republic as ‘rezane’. So, at great personal expense, and purely out of curiosity, I sought said bar and beer out for research purposes. What the half and half gives is a garnet coloured beer blend that provides the complex bitterness of the dark lager, but blended with the lighter sweetness of the pale… imagine a good latte coffee or possibly even a mocha with those chocolate hints. I’ve never been one for mixing beers, but this really works. And I’d give it 4 Stars any day of the week.
And I’ve recently learned that the Budvar brewery has brought out a Mocne - ‘Super Strong’ - brewed to 7.6% and matured for a full 200 days, so that’s on my ‘look out for’ list.
That’s what I love about tasting beers, one brew leads to another! Have you tried any of the Czech Budweiser beers? What did you think of them?
Bob the Brit
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June 18, 2009
I thought I’d keep the Belgian White theme going here at The Brew Club with a review of Saranac’s Belgian White. Liz recently reviewed Long Trail’s Belgian White and liked it enough to give it a very respectable 4 star ranking! I also enjoyed Long Trail’s version of this popular style and while its fresh in my mind I thought I’d give Saranac’s version a try.
Its been over a year since we’ve tried anything from Saranac Brewing. The Saranac Caramel Porter, which style-wise isn’t anything like a Belgian White, was enjoyable enough to get one of our first 4 star ratings. So, Saranac can make good beers, but how does the Belgian White rate?
I’ll cut to the chase. Not so good.
Compared to the Long Trail Belgian White, Ommegang Witte, Hoegaarden or even Blue Moon, this was thoroughly disappointing to me. The Saranac Belgian White had all the ’secret ingredients’ of a nice Belgian White, but it just doesn’t compare really. Let’s start from the top.
Pouring this Saranac beer, it really didn’t create much of a head. Usually, one expects that foamy, pure-white head from a Belgian White, but as you can see in the picture it was kind of weak. If I had the ability for time-lapsed photography, you would see that head completely gone in about a minute from pouring. So, it struck me as a little dull.
The color was nice, a little darker than other Belgian Whites I’ve had recently, and while the beer does appear to be slightly unfiltered, it was also comparatively much clearer than the other Belgian Whites previously mentioned. As a matter of fact, the longer this beer sits in my glass, the clearer it becomes! By the time I’m getting to this very paragraph, the Saranac Belgian White is practically clear in my glass. (I do reviews in ‘real-time’ - so there)
Not that the wimpy head, relative clearness or the darker color make this a disappointing beer, but the aroma and taste just weren’t there either. Smelling the beer, I could just barely - barely pick up any of the spices or citrus that one comes to expect from this kind of beer. I thought the malts were more pronounced than anything. Yawn.
Same with the taste. This beer had a barely perceptible citrus flavor, and almost nothing from the spice department. Otherwise, it was a light feeling beer that was easy to drink, not heavy or sticky and might make a good summer beer as many wheat beers do. But, with so many other choices in this crowded beer style, you can do much better than the Saranac Belgian White which really stuck me as watery and uninspired.
No Soup for you Saranac Belgian White! Rating:
What do you think of the Saranac Belgian White? What is YOUR favorite Belgian White beer? Why not let us know by commenting below?
Cheers! Scott
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June 15, 2009
Long Trail Belgian White Beer Review - By Liz
When I was looking for a beer to pick up for our most recent beer exchange for The Brew Club, I was simply delighted when I came across the Long Trail Belgian White. I’ve always been a fan of the beers brewed by Vermont’s Long Trail Brewery, and I first learned about them (and probably accounted for most of their sales) when I went to college in Vermont.
Almost every Long Trail beer that I’ve tried has been great, and I haven’t been disappointed yet! Let’s hope their Belgian White continues in that tradition!
You may remember a few months back we reviewed the Long Trail Hibernator and found it to be a pretty good Scottish style Winter Ale. Still, my personal favorite is their Blackberry Wheat and I hope to review that beer for you sometime in the future.
On to the Belgian White! The label tells us that this beer is (not surprisingly) “Unfiltered and all natural, our Belgian White features soft notes of citrus and traditional spices that result in a crisp, refreshing flavor.” Let’s see if it lives up to that description!
As I pour the beer into my official beer glass (no more super-weak iced tea glass – In your face Scott!) I notice that it produces a pretty decent head of foam, about an inch or so. As I take a whiff of this brew, I can clearly smell the citrus that they were talking about on the label.
Taking my first swig, I indeed get a feel for a light citrus lemony flavor. Its also pretty crisp, but not too crisp and it doesn’t leave your mouth with a dry feeling. As mentioned, the label states that this Belgian style beer is unfiltered, but you couldn’t really tell because the beer didn’t really appear cloudy at all. It’s a light straw color and I noticed that the carbonation bubbles were still going through it even after I had opened it five minutes previous.
The head and the lacing of the beer on the glass has died down quite a bit as I continue to drink the brew, but that doesn’t take away from the flavor and it doesn’t leave the beer flat. Even as I take my time sipping this brew, it remains light and refreshing and at a reasonable 4.7% ABV I think that this is a perfect brew for a summer time B-B-Q.
I’m very happy to see that Long Trail has been expanding their beer selections out to New Jersey and other locations considering its a small Vermont brewery. Still, their production has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years and as a matter of fact, Long Trail was ranked #23 of the Top 50 Craft brewing companies (by volume)in 2008!
In conclusion, I really recommend that you give this beer a try, especially if you like the Belgian White beer style. It seems like everyone is coming out with their own version of this popular style, but to me, this one stands out as one of the best. I also happen to think that the Long Trail Belgian White would make a great ‘gateway beer’ for the occasional beer drinker or even anyone who isn’t used to ‘craft’ beers.
Overall I give Long Trail Belgian White 4 stars! A great beer for this time of year!
Rating:
Liz
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