First up: Lakefront Brewery's Wisconsinite Summer Weiss, featuring locally sourced Wisconsin yeast, and so the yeast you can do it get you some and try it.
Punny stuff, right?
Okay, enough.
Second up: Lazy Mutt Farmhouse Ale, now in 8 packs, and why not?
Let's cut to the big reveal: both these beers are outstanding. And moreover, Lazy Mutt Farmhouse Ale comes in an 8 packs. Now what? See? There goes your whole world wide view, like Berlin's wall coming down all around you, right? Get used to it with these artful, awesome, adventurous, and ultimately epic beers for chasing the summer fun good times. Yes, there's fresh Wisconsin Weiss available to you all summer for the asking, and also, fresh Wisconsin Farmhouse Ale for that matter.
I gave them both in turn an Avogadro's number out of 5, which should tell you a lot. All you need to know if you know about Avogadro (if not you can stop reading here to go look him up). We'll wait... okay, here-- go look:
Was that didactic or what? Don't answer that, it would be more pedantic than rhetorical.
At any rate, even at rates slower than the tip toe through the tulips this beer review has become, understand something you thirsty pre-alcoholics, geeks and freaks-- these beers have outstanding flavor. The first, Wisconsinite Summer Weiss has an aroma and flavor of cloves, with banana notes, as it should according to the style's devotees, with none of the off flavors you may encounter from a Weiss with experience and history backstopping its brand (and maybe a multi billion dollar holding company), but nevertheless shipped far from the brewery, overseas to say, Binny's or Sam's on North Avenue in Chicago.
What are banana notes? Let's just say they are not unlikes Steely Dan's so called "Mu" chords, only in liquid form. And Lakefront is kicking them out with this Wisconsinite Weiss, complete with native yeast strains harvested by the guy I buy my home brew supplies from, mail order, over here.
By every measure and those we scarcely can identify let alone measure with Avogadro's constant or other numbers, these beers excel from Froth, Color, Aroma, Texture (or whatever is Japanese for "mouth feel") to Flavor, which all hit their mark, if their mark was to delight the drinker with actual "amazing" and "delicious" that you're hearing about going on around you by word, but not so much in deed if you compare ciders to ciders.
The beers are extraordinary, so the review is over, and you can stop reading now if you need to go get you some. Otherwise, I shall further address this "amazing free zone", which I know, it sounds grumpy, old and curmudgeonly if not Calvin Trillinesque to raise grumble and grouse over buzzwords, but sometimes you have to speak out or risk losing your soul, like a cog in a bureaucratic machine... okay, I'm not Max Weber, so I'm not sure where this is going, but if you don't speak, the bastards win, and we are all back to Soviet era accounting, waiting for new profiteers to cross boarders like rough riders to liberate us from the beer jails we've built to house ourselves.
Yesterday, a friend insisted that A-Rod was such an "amazing player" that maybe people shouldn't be surprised and object to the kind of steroid & adjuncts he used to break call kinds of records as a Yankee. I heard enough! I had to declare my communications going forward an "amazing- free zone".
Sorry folks, you'll have to dig deeper to describe things around me from now on. It's just that way, and it has to be for now. Adjuncts, additives and impurities may not bother the overseas cartel beverage over-lords who bought America's two monopoly beer suppliers out from under the Wall street traders and market makers who waited an eternity for the laws of karma (and drug use) to shut down the great, great, great, actually no-so-great grandson of Bud's founder's son-in-law, but you won't have to put up with any impurities on my watch. Okay, I beg your pardon, I just read "Bitter Brew" by William Knoedelseder, the outstanding practitioner of new Journalism who's famous for writing "Stiffed" about the connections between the music business and the Mob. This latest read about the beer formerly known as the King of Beers is just as good (See, http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062009265 )
In conclusion, both these beers, Lakefront Wisconsinite Summer Weiss and Lazy Mutt Farmhouse Ale would be amazing, were we not in this amazing free zone I've constructed out of virtual construction paper and tasty edible glue, but they are still both quite delicious, even if "delicious" is on a ear terror watch-list.
You'll find the websites for these fine #craftbeer selections from the great state of Wisconsin here:
And for a limited time, you'll find the live Ustream video in the box on the right. After that, you'll need to go to my Ustream channel and look it up, until I figure out how to embed video in a blog page for good.
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