• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Naturally gregarious and alpha

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

False Scribes! False Scribes!

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Something seems odd about that, but i have been drinking.

Reality always wins in the end.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

I really should read my own blog.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Verified, but limited!

We still have time to mess this up!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The house always wins.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

This is how realignments happen…

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Too inconsequential to be sued

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Mobile Menu

  • Look Forward & Back
  • Balloon Juice 2021 Pet Calendar
  • Site Feedback
  • All 2020 Fundraising
  • I Voted!
  • Take Action: Things We Can Do
  • Team Claire, and Family
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • BJ PayPal Donations
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • Nature & Respite
  • Information As Power
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • On The Road
  • Garden Chats
  • Nature & Respite
  • Look Forward & Back
You are here: Home / Food & Recipes / Beer Blogging / (Belated) Friday Beer Blogging – Erratum And A Review

(Belated) Friday Beer Blogging – Erratum And A Review

by Tim F|  May 27, 20061:07 pm| 3 Comments

This post is in: Beer Blogging

Facebook0Tweet0Email0

Let’s start off with a corrective note and an apology. A while back I wrongly slandered Baltika Porter by calling it drinkable, but saccharine with a suspicion that they added sugar to bring on a bit of the Russian “Imperial” character. Not so! In fact I had just tried Okocim Porter from Poland. From what I remember Baltika comes across quite pleasant if a bit burnt. As a gesture of making amends, I recommend that my fans (both of them) go out and enjoy a draught/case/six-pack of Baltika’s fine product immediately.

Baltika
Mister Gorbachev, pass me that beer.

Michael Jackson, the other Michael Jackson, had this to say:

Baltika Porter has an ebony colour; an alcohol content of 7.0, from an original gravity of 1068; and a woody aroma, with oily, creamy, fudgy, toffeeish, juicy, flavours. It is soft and lightly dry. This beer, too, contains crystal, and some carbonised malt.

As always you can find out more at Beer Advocate.

Moving on, thanks in no small part to the fine work at Stoudt’s I have a very hard time passing up on any triple-fermented American ale, especially when the brewers telegraph their intentions by slipping Flemish into the beer’s name somewhere. New to me, the Tripel from Southern Tier in New York pours a clear straw yellow with a generous, lingering cream-white head. Despite hints of cardamom and orange peel (mentioned on the bottle, no doubt as a helpful aid to palate-challenged reviewers like myself) it seemed like I had tried this brew before.

A few hours later I remembered my review of the Maximus IPA, another filtered multi-fermented ale (double rather than triple) from Lagunitas in California. I wrote then:

The strange thing was that the Maximus IPA did not remind me of any particular beer that I have tried, rather it reminded me of dozens at once. Despite being double-fermented the Maximus was more bitter than sweet, more hops and alcohol than malt and yeast protein, more classic American microbrew than Belgian dubbel.

More or less the same holds true for the Southern Tier. Maybe even more so for a brewer who labels his beer in Flemish. I don’t want to give the impression that I don’t enjoy the high-octane IPA/Scotch style which both beers basically represent, I do and then some, but for a beer that calls out its Belgian heritage I will always prefer the murky, protein-rich brews from Stoudts, Allagash and New Belgium. If you have any favorites of your own, please by all means share them in the comments. If it’s new to me there’s a good chance that I will hunt it down for a review.

Find out more about Southern Tier from BeerBlog and, of couse, the guys at BA.

Facebook0Tweet0Email0
Previous Post: « Better Late Than Never?
Next Post: Reality Check »

Reader Interactions

3Comments

  1. 1.

    Grisha

    May 27, 2006 at 2:18 pm

    I’ve spent the last few months on a quest to drink all 9 Baltikas. As of now the top of my bookcase is adorned with 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, & both the old & new bottle styles of 9 (needless to say the old one is much better, the new one seems Americanized). I’ve yet to see 1 or 5 anywhere. A couple weeks ago I had the delight of finding Baltika 7 in mini-keg form, but soon after had the misfortune of being intercepted by my girlfriend before I could reach the checkout. So it goes. Still, a man can dream…

  2. 2.

    Andrew

    May 27, 2006 at 5:45 pm

    Is it unseasonably cold in PA right now?

    It’s summertime! Bring on the Mexican beer.

  3. 3.

    Halffasthero

    May 28, 2006 at 3:15 pm

    Later than usual on the beer blog. Fortunately this is Memorial weekend so more time to discuss and enjoy all our favorite alcohol treats.

    As I posted OT on another topic, Goose Island Oatmeal Stout. I loved it. A definite thumbs up. Anyone who likes dark beer must try it. Also Old Speckled Hen from England. Its an ale and definitely delicious. I was asked about Anker Steam – yes I did try it but I was trying it too late in the night to fully determine if it was good or not. It certainly did go down fast, though. : )

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Do Something!

Call Your Senators & Representatives
Directory of US Senators
Directory of US Representatives

I Got the Shot!  (Month 2)
I Got the Shot!

 

🎈Ways to Support Our Site

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal
Shop Amazon via this link to support Balloon Juice ⬇  

Recent Comments

  • mrmoshpotato on Open Thread: Actual Golden Calf (Feb 26, 2021 @ 11:39am)
  • Cameron on Open Thread: Actual Golden Calf (Feb 26, 2021 @ 11:37am)
  • debbie on Open Thread: Actual Golden Calf (Feb 26, 2021 @ 11:35am)
  • mrmoshpotato on Open Thread: Actual Golden Calf (Feb 26, 2021 @ 11:35am)
  • Another Scott on Friday Morning Open Thread: Minimum Wage vs. Pandemic Relief? (Feb 26, 2021 @ 11:35am)

Team Claire, and Family

Claire Updates
Claire is Home!

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year

Featuring

John Cole
Silverman on Security
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Medium Cool with BGinCHI
Furry Friends

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Submit Photos to On the Road
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Meetups: Proof of Life
2021 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar

Culture: Books, Film, TV, Music, Games, Podcasts

Noir: Favorites in Film, Books, TV
Book Recommendations & Indy Recs
Mystery Recommendations
Netflix Favorites
Amazon Prime Favorites
Netflix Suggestions in July
Longmire & Netflix Suggestions

Twitter

John Cole’s Twitter

[custom-twitter-feeds]

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2021 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!