Despite the rain, the Beer Tasting at Sid’s 8th Street Cafe was a success. There were a dozen or so beers from Sam Adam’s tonight. Great crowd that was dodging the rain and moving outside tables under the walkway shelter. If you’ll remember, when Sid did a Wine Tasting a few weeks ago, the sky’s opened with more rain. Where was he last year in the dry times. Thank Gosh we’ve got him now.
From the folks at Alabama Live, “ The Magic City Brewfest got a bit of extra magic this year with the excitement of tasting new products brought in with passage of the Gourmet Beer Bill.” Read More of the Story Here! Alabama’s Own Good People Brewing Company was also featured in the article and at the Brewfest. Check out this Birmingham Brewery here. The design of their website is just great! There is a lot of Colorado Beer out there, and Brewfest featured some from Durango Brewery, the third oldest in Colorado. Go and read their story here!
Sam Adams Seasonal Beer – White Ale (Light blue Label on the bottle) From the Same Adams website, here’s their definition: This beer’s roots are in Belgium, and the classic Wit biers produced by Belgium’s brewers. The style gets its name from the white, milky appearance of this unfiltered wheat ale. The brewers of Samuel Adams® beer, taking inspiration from the Belgians, have created a classic of their own. On the malt side, we use malted two row Pale barley, malted wheat, and Munich malt to give this beer a crisp, malty, cereal finish and smooth mouth feel. The hops used are Noble Tettnang Tettnanger hops. At the end of the kettle boil, we add a proprietary spice blend to give Samuel Adams® White Ale a unique and complex flavor, without being overpowering or cloying. The spice blend includes orange and lemon peel, dried plum, grains of paradise, coriander, anise, hibiscus, rose hips, tamarind, and vanilla. It is this special blend of spices that gives Samuel Adams® White Ale its unique character, complexity and refreshing drinkability. The beer is coarse filtered, leaving a white haze from the malt proteins. Our proprietary top fermenting ale yeast ferments the beer, imparting its signature character – bright and slightly fruity.
The beer was first brewed in 1997 and is available late January thru April. It’s got a Golden Amber color, but it’s cloudy. Put your hand behind the glass and see what you can’t see. It’s got 175 Calories.
Not to anger to folks in Boston, another beer I like that this falls into the same range would be Blue Moon.
Drinkability, humm, how to define this one. If you’re going to sit and have a few beers and eat some wings, this going to be fine. Would you want to drink them all afternoon on the lake (if it were warm and we had water in the lake) probably not. I’d switch over to another Sam treat after a few.
