What is a stout? Come on in and see. Stout is a stout version of porter. Essentially, porters had more roasted barley or black patent malts (and other dark grains) added to them and began to be called stout porters. Eventually, “porter” dropped off the name, and a style was born. Like porter, stout is [...]
Cerveza has gotten a lot of attention in the past 10-15 years. Before the ubiquitous Corona, it seems like few people were drinking the style called Cerveza. Technically, Cerveza is a style only in so far as German lagers are a style. What do I mean by that? Well, beer, as we know it, did [...]
We’ve been writing our style series for quite some time, and I want to finish it over the next little bit. Hopefully, it’s a resource to the beer drink and burgeoning beer drinker. We only have a few left, so here we go with one of them: Brown Ale. What is a Brown Ale? As [...]
We’re getting near the end of actually completing our Style of Beers series. A lot of terrain has been covered, but a few styles had to wait on being written. It’s getting to be the time of year that many people prefer a lighter bodied beer that doesn’t fill them up. Even avid beer drinkers [...]
Talking about Belgian Ale is a somewhat daunting task. Beer in Belgium is creative and variegated. I’ve already mentioned a couple of the types of Belgian Ales, which included Lambics and Trappist Ales. These are only two among many other styles. In many cases, different regions developed very different approaches. As a result, there will [...]
What is a Trappist Ale? What is an Abbey Ale? Are they different things? Trappist Ale: Trappist is made by one of 6 breweries in Belgium or 1 in the Netherlands. No one else makes a Trappist Ale that can be termed as such. This style of beer must be made in one of 7 [...]
Although we jumped from the area around England for the last beer, we are going to head down to London town for this next style. I’ve spoken about Porter and Stouts once before on this site, but I’m going to go ahead and post this one as part of the style series. I am going [...]
Seeing as how we are about to drink a Pomme lambic, I thought that this would be as good a time as any to write about lambic as a style. This style of beer is truly an achievement. In this post, I’m going to tell you what a lambic is all about, and this will [...]
Since we have covered some other English Styles Ales, Scottish Ales, and various other topics, let’s stick with another Ale of England. As the name might indicate, Barley Wine is a very strong type of beer. In fact, it often rivals wines in ABV. These Ales have a tendency to be pretty sweet (because of [...]
It’s been a while since the last style series post, but I am going to keep it up. The last types of styles that I drew one were various English Ales and Pale/India Pale Ales, so I’m going to keep it close to area. Scottish Ales are the next to be tackled. In some ways, [...]
