Well. First of all, I am still having trouble signing into Blogger. It's as if someone out there in BlogLand knows I'm a fraud and is trying to keep me out. Pfffft.
Secondly, people read this garbage. Who knew! I received a kind invitation via email by a brewpub in my city to come sample their beers. I have been asked not to reveal the pub until the visit is over....so stay tuned! Nice. Who knew imbibing would get me invitations? Life is good.
And thirdly, I have a review of another ale. I only have a few more ales to go and then I breaking out the Pilsners. WOO-HOOO!
So. After being forced to leave a restaurant thanks to an unruly toddler who shall remain nameless (but it rhymes with "Shady"), I stopped at a new likker store to calm my frazzled nerves. (yes, I spelled it wrong on purpose. But good job noticing!) I wandered about like a lost kitten for a few minutes until a kindly-yet-rednecky soul offered me some help.
Me: "Is this all the beer you carry?"
Him: "Well, what are you looking for?"
Me: "Something wacky and new. An ale."
Him: ........(that's the sound of his 4 second stare while deciding if I am unstable and whether or not he should call Jethro out from the back room).
clears throat
Him: "Well, we have some different ones over here, but they are warm."
Me: "I have a refrigerator".
Him: ........
Yeah. So, anyway, he gave me his opinion of the few "wacky" beers he carried. I settled on Flying Dog Ales' In-Heat Wheat. Yes, you may laugh at that. It has a great scratch of a black, maniacal dog on the front with her tongue all waggy, being oogled by a half dozen mangy looking scoundrels. OF COURSE I am taking this beer home! The art on the bottle is really, by itself, something to see. Even the label is "torn" at the edges and just...well...edgy.
The scent reminds me right off of my favorite food: beer bread. It's warm and sweet but slightly spiced in aroma. Very nice. I had my In-Heat Wheat Ale very cold but I'm going to say that even as it began to warm up it was still really good. It's very smooth in a way no other beer has been, thus far. It has an alcohol content of 4.7% APV which is not much, but it is so easy going down it's easy to drink it faster than you might intend. Turns out the horny doggie beer has won various awards which prompted me to think ahead: perhaps I will hold my own awards for all this beer I am guzzling between now and May 2008. My one year journal to alcoholism should not go without due props, right?
Back to the beer.
Flying Dog Ale's In-Heat Wheat Ale has just bumped Leinenkugel's for 1st place. This is good stuff and I am going to tell the manager at all my fave restaurants to carry it.
Amen.
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What? this blog is unable to carry pictures of said horny dog ale label???
Oh no....wait. I see a link. As if an inebriated person can follow such (beer) bread crumbs.
Devin likes Blanche de Chambly http://www.unibroue.com/products/blanche.cfm It's kinda Hoegaarden-ish in appearance and he likes it v. much.
Rickard's White is a nice summer beer as well and easily accessible. You drink it with a slice of orange.
Devin's regulars are Heineken, Guinness, Boddingtons and Kilkenny. He also gets Sleeman, but I'm not sure which variety. I think either the Cream Ale or the Clear.
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