Charlotte poured me a Bass Ale at the Rose and Crown in the England pavilion in Epcot.
Bass Ale is always enjoyable. It pours up nicely and the head fades to a few bubbles around the edges.
The aroma has a nice maltiness to it.
The beer is generally crisp with carbonation bite and this one is true to the form.
The taste starts out with a little malt and finishes with mild hop flavors.
This beer is a great session beer and a go to beer when available of selections is very low.
Boddingtons Pub Ale pours up very nice and creamy with a fine bubbly head which holds on while you drink it.
The aroma is very mild and lost in the smells of the ocean.
The taste is a little dry with a mild bitterness. There are malt characteristics present, too, buy they are very mellow The creaminess presents in the mouth feel, too.
It seems very appropriate to be drinking a beer of English origins on a cruise ship in the Atlantic ocean while reading “Hops and Glory” by Pete Brown. I just wish my GPS chip had gotten a good location when the picture was taken at sea.
We are sadly having to say goodbye to Huntsville’s first brewery since prohibition. Olde Towne Brewing Co. has had call it quits. Their bottle line experienced more troubles and they have had to suspend bottling. Back in December, they let go of the sales personel. Their business manager has just left as well. The brewer, Daniel Stearns, has taken on the role of Operation Manager, but he is actually the only person left. The owner is in the process of having another local brewery take over the facility including a possible lease-purchase.
We are all here at The Nook celebrating Olde Towne and saying good bye to the crew. They was a nice size crowd.
Williamsburg Alewerks’ Coffeehouse Stout pours up with head that fades quickly to a simple trim of bubbles around the edges.
The aroma gives you a reason to understand why this beer is call Coffeehouse. The coffee tones are mellow like an expresso from a deep French roasted bean. There is a little bit of chocolate malt in the aroma, too. You can almost miss it, but it is there.
The taste is crisp, but it is not from the carbonation. The body and temperature are contributing to the crispness in the mouth. The flavors flow all over the mouth due to the body of this beer. There is medium body, but it doesn’t get in the way. The coffee mocha flavors are what this beer is all about if you had briefly describe it.
This is a very enjoyable beer. With the low ABV of 5.4%, this beer could almost be a session beer, but you would have to be a fan of Stouts and American Brown Ales. So, this is a session beer for me.
Cigar City Maduro Brown Ale pours with a small amount of head that fades to a thin trim of foam around the glass.
The aroma is a very dry mellow mocha with little to no flora from the hops as expected.
The tastes starts with a dry lightly carbonated chocolate malt flavor that reminds me of bitter chocolate, which I enjoy. The finish only gets drier with a mellowing of the chocolate tones. The malty flavors stick in the mouth due to the dryness.
This is a very good American Brown Ale.
Terrapin’s Hop Karma Brown IPA has a mixture of aromas that include the cocoa aroma of a brown ale blended with hoppy flora of an IPA. Wow!
The beer poured with nice head that faded to a mild amount of lacing around the glass with minimal bubbles left.
The beer is crisp in the mouth with a nice strong mocha malt flavor that reminds me of Fuller’s London Porter. The hops kick in during the finish to provide a very good bit.
This beer has been a nice surprise and it will be one of my regular beers.
Cigar City Brewing’s Humidor Series Indian Pale Ale is very bold bodied IPA.
It is aged in Spanish Cedar, which gives it sweetness similar to gin.
Sierra Nevada’s Sierra 30th Anniversary is a great anniversary ale from Sierra Nevada.
It is part of a series with this one being the fourth. It is an oak aged blend based on Oak-aged Bigfoot, Celebration Ale, and a fresh Pale Ale with a dry hopping.
Founders’ Breakfast Stout is a bold stout beer, which has a nice chocolate and coffee set of flavors.
It finished with little bit of alcohol heat.
Founders’ Centennial IPA is a very good IPA. It is a very full body IPA with a rich aroma.