Making, tasting, reflections and repartee on Beer, Wine, Hard Cider, Kombucha and Spirits. Includes asides on fermenting foods, coffee, and tea. Look for Craft beer buzz on teh tweets: @one4ethanol
Nice soapy froth, cloudy light golden color, mild clove aroma, nice balanced malt with a back of the mouth bitter hop flavor. Mouth feel is grand for white beer. Well made and well served here at BCT on Belmont off the Brown line. Awesome giant plasmas above the bar too.
Better than good place to watch the Cubs while peeps freeze out at Wrigley.
"The Pour House" at Maker's Mark in Loretto, KY is the oldest package store in America. It's a national landmark. And the still is of course something to see.
One of the gents who taught me distilling (a West Point grad) was one of their microbiologists, so I'm a little biased about this place, but it's well worth a stop on KY's Bourbon trail.
They will take pains to remind you that Maker's Marks, which is made with 71% corn and the balance with wheat, is bottled by taste, not age, in order to retain the delicate flavors and aroma of wheat based whisky. So, honestly: would you ever learn such a thing from your bar tender?
Now why not just get you in the car and go see where American shine is made with good, clean (and also purified), high calcium, limestone water?
Mini photo essay of Maker's Mark "Whisky", which is a Scottish spelling to honor the Samuels family heritage, as our tour guide explained it.
Who burned the coffee? Not Lucus, but he serves it right at Louisville Beer Store.
And what a beer! Big, bold, balanced with a sour burned flavor like Starbucks with less sugar than say, a 15 year old would add for lunch. High gravity, dark, frothy, burned-hoppy aroma. Dont know if it's CO2, but nice bubbles on top.
This beer is an "expedition" indeed.
Zoot Allures! Big flavors, high graity, beauteous froth, aroma and color, backed by smooth mouth feel and of course Tony's storied hop story, all of which makes this beer rock out with its hops out with flavor for all. So get it fa da flavaz, playaz.
The PUBlicity bar is real nice too, tucked right in a West Nashville shopping mall, next to Nashville Music institution and legit school of rock, country and or westren, WORLD MUSIC, where you can buy authentic Kala ukalalies. Their lines and glasses are clean and clear, the service is excellent and the bartender's beer knowledge is very good (she likes the high gravity stuff).
Also, this place has classic, retro, hipster Schlitz "TALL BOYS" on menu.
