Chelsea Brewing Company is located on pier 59 in Manhattan, NYC. I was able to try several of their award-winning beers including their Black Hole XXX Stout and Checkered Cab Blonde Ale.

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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.

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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.

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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. The Brew Club checks out Budweiser Dark Lager.

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The Brew Club keeps the Belgian White theme going 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 compare Saranac’s version to it.

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