On Friday and Saturday I had a couple of nice bike rides to get to beer. Friday I went up to Lefthand [no link since it’s a lame all-flash site], 12+ miles, for an Alers social. They had a nice oak-aged imperial stout on and a decent smoked beer. I thought the Twin Sisters Double IPA on cask was a bit too much alcohol in a cough-syrupy way. They might be making brewing systems out of their scrap kegs- watch for it.
So this blog is new and I missed the official debut of The Session, but coincidentally here’s a stout-like thing I brewed on the following Sunday. Kitchen-sink/leftover kinda beer, and certainly doesn’t fit a BJCP or GABF stout, but the sweet wort tasted oh-so-good: a rich, coffee-like, chewy/spicy-sweet conglomeration. The fermenter is throwing a wonderful mix of hop aromas. Maybe I’ll be drinking it while I brew a abbey-inspired ale for the next session (a 6 and 12 are long on my to-do list anyways).
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