Beers

[EeePee]

Interesting...

To a Tea
Happy hour and teatime collide



Stone Brewing has brought new meaning to teatime.

Typically, green tea and craft brews are suited to entirely different occasions. But for its newest release, the inventive Southern California brewery has brought the fragrant, calming pleasures of a hot cup to a cold bottle.

To create the Japanese Green Tea IPA ($3.50 for 12 ounces), the proceeds of which are earmarked for the Japanese Red Cross Society for earthquake and tsunami relief, Stone collaborated with Guam's Ishii Brewing and Japan's Baird Brewing. The IPA detours from the overly citric characteristics commonplace in hoppy American ales, a result of the international partnership.

The brewers relied on offbeat hops such as New Zealand's orange-marmalade-scented Pacifica, Japan's lemony Sorachi Ace and France's recently released Aramis, which has an herbal, lemon-hinted bouquet. But the Japanese Green Tea IPA truly stands apart thanks to the addition of whole-leaf sencha tea from Japan. Cold-steeped in the brew, the tea imparts a delicate, grassy flavor that melds well with the IPA's herbal bitterness.

And though the limited release weighs in at a robust 9.2 percent alcohol, it drinks as easily as a spot of tea.

 

[skellyo]

Tonight's first beer:

 

[C*H*U*D]

My Big Boy mug makes it into many of my pictures here, but I thought I'd throw a piece of Lexan on the mill to make a coaster for it.

 

[EeePee]

Classy. :mrgreen:

Finally time for beers!

And Sudafeds!

 

[JeremyH]

Classy. :mrgreen:

I had some of that when I was up in Canukistan last week. It had been a while and it was even better than I remembered!"thumbsup"

 

[EeePee]

La Fin Du Monde and Maudite are about the only beers that will keep me from buying nothing but IPAs and Natty Ice.

The cashier dude asked me to stop short of the counter to take a picture of me carrying the La Fin Du Monde and a 30 pack of Natty Ice. And the Natty 30 is only 3 more bucks than the 4 pack. Hah.

 

[TEDROCKZ]

12 pack of Busch and getting the Bradley loaded up with some pork loin:ror:.
Good beer tomorrow when the dinner is ready...Choices:roll:

 

[EeePee]

Bradley loaded up with some pork loin

Pictures!

 

[TEDROCKZ]

Pictures!

In the morning. Started a thread on it.

 

[DickyT]

8% Scotch Ale!

I have some of that Dale's that Juan posted a few posts up to wash this down with....


Yes, good beer is coming in cans again!

 

[JeremyH]

Yes, good beer is coming in cans again!

They never stopped making it! "thumbsup"

There is a local brewery that only sells beer in metal containers....and it is mighty tasty!

 

[Shoei1]

Always liked Maui Brewing. Saw this and had to try. Its a Wheat Ale brewed with pineapple juice. You can really taste the pineapple! 5.5% btw good stuff and I dont even care for pineapple.

 

[foproy]

stone 15th anniversary imperial black ipa, i am not a huge ipa fan but this stuff was quite tasty.

 

[Serolf]

Pfft...you people and your fancy beers with fancy names. Corona or Bud Light for me.

 

[foproy]

Pfft...you people and your fancy beers with fancy names. Corona or Bud Light for me.

keep drinking water, i will keep drinking beer.

 

[C*H*U*D]

Pfft...you people and your fancy beers with fancy names. Corona or Bud Light for me.

I'll never drink beer from a clear or green bottle. #1 sign that the brewery knows nothing about packaging beer or doesn't care.

 

[skellyo]

Recent beers:

 

[msd44]

Got to crack open a few of these tonight. Not to shabby for what it is....

 

[EeePee]

Beautiful!

 

[xrra_tj]

tonights 1st brew

sweetwater extra pale ale 420