Well it has been a little while since I found my creative beer writing drive... Since the last post a lot of new beerness has come about. As the Dude would say " The Dude Abides" well my beery fanatics, I have twisted the word, pulled it from the foam and hammered it on the anvil to be reborn as imbibe ! I have yet to sample the works from the smoke stack series Belgian ales, but I did sample their "Double Wide IPA". It was very well balanced and full of fruits, malt and of course packed full with a plethera of hops. It was a nice double IPA, but it lacked that certain west coast power.
Last night I engaged in a tasting so daring, that only the bravest of souls could muster their lips to the glass... Eric Schoville and Mark Garthwaite and I (members of MHTG - Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild) took on the famed Brussels Lambic (and one Flemish Red)
The ammo looked like this...
1.) Cantillon Bio Gueuze (young bottling/sampling-Oct. 2008)
2.) Oude Beersel Kriek (young bottling-2008)
3.) Drie Fontienen Oude Gueze (young bottling-2007)
4.) Lindemans Cuvee Renee vintage 1994-(yes that's 15 years old...)
5.) Ithrecht's Flemish Red (Grand Cru 50/50)
6.) Lambic a la Becasse -Stefan & Eric's single lambic (cultured w/the dregs of Giradin Gueuze
You ask why all the young bottled lambics (why not wait several decades)? Well all the dregs made their way into a starter culture (viable beasties) to one day grace a batch of homebrewed P-Lambic.
Well the bottle is about empty and the cellar's too far a crawl....its off to the sandman's world.
Good night and good beer....
