This is Part
Two of my Craft Beer Advent Calendar to keep you up to date with the beers I’ve
been drinking this month.
December 6
Mikkeller
Pilsner-Style Beer
This was
the first canned beer in the advent calendar, I prefer stubbies to cans to
begin with. The label of this beer is quite peculiar, like some sort of art
painting. The beer was pretty good, from Belgium.
December 7
Holgate
Brewhouse Temptress
On the
label it reads “… this luscious winter warmer infused with Dutch cocoa and
whole vanilla beans…”. A good tasting beer – better suited to colder
conditions. From Victoria, Australia.
December 8
Panhead
Hopfenweisse
For the
first New Zealand beer (and the second can) for the advent calendar I found
this one difficult to drink. It was warm before I got through it. This beer is
a Hopfenweisse, a wheat beer, hence why it was unusual for me.
December 9
Epic Pale
Ale
Back to
back New Zealand beers but luckily this one was a lot better to drink, more
along the lines of a classic craft beer. I would recommend this for you to
drink.
December 10
Tool Battle
Royal Imperial Miso Porter
I like
creative beer labels, at first impression I love the guns printed on this label
as well as the Japanese fan. Even using ‘miso’ in the name (Japanese bean curd –
used in various foods) I thought this would be a Japanese beer. The label says
it is made in Spain on one part then says Denmark on another. At first taste I
knew right away that this is crafty and that it was alcoholic (it says 11% on
the label), I’m surprised that this is a beer because it was way too rich for
anything I normally drink. It took longer than normal to drink this. I will have
to do some research into this beer in the future to find out about the
confusing label and the even more confusing taste.
I have to
say that I wasn’t overall pleased with these beers, some were hard to drink
while others were out of place for summer drinking. I'm not saying don't ever try these beers, if you want to become a beer master like me then you should try any beer you can get your hands on.
The first
lot were excellent though so I have faith that the next 14 days will produce
some more great beers.
Cheers
Dave
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| December 6-10 |
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