Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat
August 20, 2007 | 3 Comments
Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat is an award winning spicy wheat beer. When enjoyed in my weizen glass the natural coriander and citrus flavors are very strong and enjoyable. This beer is brewed by the J. Leinenkugel Brewing Company in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin. The brewery dated back to 1867 through five generations of family ownership.
I highly recommend this beer. I wish I could get a hold of more from the Leinenkugel Brewing Company like the Apple Spice, Summer Shandy, Honey Weiss, Berry Weiss, Red, Creamy Dark, or the Bigg-Butt Dopplebock! Unfortunately Sunset Wheat is the only beer I can enjoy from them in my area.
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Weizen Glass
April 6, 2007 | 1 Comment
While in Las Vegas, my wife bought me a pair of beer glasses from Nine Fine Irishmen, which is a really cool pub in the New York-New York Hotel. They have an interesting curvy shape (like the one to the left), and in turn I was sure they had a specific purpose.
Enter Beer Advocate which explains:
Nothing beats serving your Weizenbier (wheat beer) in an authentic Bavarian Weizen Glass. These classy glasses, with their thin walls and length, showcase the beer’s color and allows for much headspace to contain the fluffy, sexy heads association with the style. Most are 0.5L in size, with slight variations in sizes. Forget the lemon garnish, the citric will kill the head.
Benefits: Specifically produced to take on volume and head, while locking in the banana-like and phenol aromas associated with the style.
Considering my favorite ales are invariably wheat beers or hefeweizens, I am now even more excited about my new glasses.
Tags: Bavarian, beer, beer advocate, glass, glasses, Hefeweizen, irish, irishmen, las vegas, New York-New York, nine fine irishmen, wheat, wheat beer
Black Cherry - Another Variation on the Black and Tan
April 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Still experimenting with my Lagerhead Turtle, I’ve become pretty hooked on mixing something I’m calling the Black Cherry.
Murphy’s Irish Stout on top
Samuel Adams’ Cherry Wheat on bottom
Once again, you can subsititute Guinness Irish Stout, but I think Murphy’s is better in any black and tan. I’m sure this has been done by others and named other things, but oh well.
Tags: beer, black and tan, black cherry, cherry, cherry wheat, guinness, irish stout, sam adams, samuel adams, stout
Black and Blueberry - A Variation on the Black and Tan
April 21, 2006 | 5 Comments
Since getting my Lagerhead Turtle, I’ve increasingly enjoyed experimenting with new stratified beer recipes. One I’m quite proud of I’m calling the Black and Blueberry.
Murphy’s Irish Stout on top
Sea Dog: Blue Paw Wheat Ale on bottom.
You can of course subsititute Guinness Irish Stout, but I think Murphy’s is better in any black and tan.
Tags: ale, beer, black and blueberry, black and tan, blue paw, blueberry, guinness, irish stout, sea dog, stout, wheat ale
Perfect Black & Tan
January 5, 2006 | 7 Comments
For my birthday I got the Brutul (brew tool) Lagerhead Black & Tan Turtle. For years I’ve been making black & tans using a bent spoon. I’m hear to say this turtle absolutely rules in comparison. I can hardly mess these things up using the turtle.
They give a great description of how to pour a black & tan:
Simply chill the beer, then half-fill a standard pint glass with the bottom beverage (pour a good head so you liberate the CO2). Place the Lagerhead® Turtle on the rim of the glass, then gradually pour the Irish stout over the turtle’s back to form the top layer.
They also provide the following recipes, some of which I’ve had, the rest I need to try:
Black & Tan
Guinness® - Bass Ale®
Half & Half
Guinness® - Harp Lager®
Blacksmith
Guinness® - Smithwick’s® Ale
Patriot
Guinness® - Sam Adams Lager®
Snakebite
Guinness® - Hard Cider
Black Velvet
Guinness® - Champagne
Blacktop
Beamish® - Fat Tire Amber Ale®
Bohemian
Beamish® - Pilsner Urquell®
Big Easy
Beamish® - Abita Amber Lager®
Snapper
Murphy’s® - Redhook ESB®
Bumble Bee
Murphy’s® - Dundee Honey Lager®
I created one of my own recipes, the “Black & Blue” which is Guinness® - Sea Dog® Blue Paw Wheat Ale. The blueberry flavor bubbles up through the Guinness® producing an amazing flavor.
As a final justification for buying one of these, some of the proceeds of each sold is contributed to the Lagerhead Foundation which funds projects to help turtles.
Tags: beer, black & tan, black and tan, brutul, guinness, irish stout, lagerhead foundation, recipe, recipes, sea dog, stout, turtle, turtles
Salt Lake City, Parting Thoughts
August 22, 2005 | 2 Comments
This story is a bit delayed, but I felt I still needed to get it published. This is my final story in the series related to my trip to Utah. I just wanted to get the rest of my images posted and talk briefly about some of the other cool things we saw.
We took a drive through Mt. Timponogos area which is a fantastic scenic drive including some snow topped mountains which were Sara’s favorites of course. On the way out of the mountains are a series of waterfalls including Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon. Highly recommended scenic drive.
Sara also went to the Salt Lake City Public Library. The library is impressively large. She also too of the best shots we have of the city from the public roof observation area.
One night we took a ride out to Park City where many of the 2002 Olympic Games were held. I wasn’t super impressed with Park City though. It is an expensive area with an over abundance of of art galleries and the like. If you like that type of thing, it is the place for you, but not entirely my cup of tea. What we did see while there that was cool was them filming a scene for Everwood. The best part was standing in a crowd waiting to see “the star.” Clearly, the crowd didn’t know who they were waiting for as Treat Williams walked off the set and quietly up the sidewalk without a single person in the surrounding crowd even noticing. It was then that Sara and I also left, following towards our car and watched him enter his trailer. Hugely funny.
On our last day there we visited the Family History Library which is the home to a huge collection of genealogical information. I turned up a book on the Tirrell family there which was awesome. I intend on blogging that later, so more on this all later. If you visit Salt Lake though, I recommend a few hours here, but do as much of your family tree ahead of tie as you can. A majority of there best data is pre-1900.
As a final point of note, I’ll say that Salt Lake is a very clean and cultured city. I found more entertaining things to see in the area than I had imagined. The Mormons have had a positive effect on the community without being as overbearing as I thought they might be. You can still get beer in most restaurants and that’s all that matters to me.
Although, on that note, local Utah beers are overall a bit bland and not very interesting. I tried four different ones, some at micro breweries and was impressed with none of them. Including an oatmeal stout which is usually exactly what I’m looking for…
Tags: 2002 olympic games, beer, everwood, family history library, micro breweries, park city, salt lake city, scenic drive, timponogos, treat williams, Utah