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LA #beer on an #Oakland rooftop. #GoldenRoad #GetUpOffaThat (at The Good Hop)
#Breakfast for dinner! Fried egg sandwich with @speakeasybeer's Limited Series #Untouchable #IPA. At 6.8%abv it's wimpy and delicious! #craftbeer (at Lumpy Space)
Cheers! #WinterBrewFest #beer #craftbeer (at Todos Santos Plaza)
Home-spiced apple cinnamon #bourbon is my bestfriend after an extremely long Monday at work. Merry Christmas to me from @jessicacoulombe! #yum! (at Lumpy Space)
More #beers with my boys!!! 16 4oz pours between us + 2 growlers for tonight. #craftbeer #localcraftbeer #drinklocal #Torrance #LA #Absolution @AbsolutionBrewing (at Absolution Brewing Company)
Checking out The Dudes' Brewing Co with my boys. @thedudesbrew #Torrance #SouthBay #LA #beer #craftbeer (at The Dudes' Brewing Co.)
Switched over to the #Kormoran #Warminski. Also 9%abv but much smoother and sweeter. We have a winner! (Plus, I mean, there's a wolf on the label.) #craftbeer #balticporter #piwa #porterbaltycki #Poland (at Elta Piwa Regionalne)
Cracked open the Komes first. 9%abv and it tastes like it. #Komes #porterbaltycki #piwa #craftbeer #Poland #balticporter (at Elta Piwa Regionalne)
I used my usual skills of analysis to pick out these two. Plus they're award-winning! Komes Porter Balticki & Browar Koran Warminski Porter Balticki Niefiltrowany (unfiltered Baltic porter). #craftbeer #Poland #Szczecin #balticporter #piwa! (at Elta Piwa Regionalne)
Piwa! On my long adventure yesterday I found a craft beer shop! Hooray! #craftbeer #Poland #Szczecin #balticporter #porterbaltycki (at Elta Piwa Regionalne)
So, we ended up at a gay bar because it was the only place in our immediate vicinity still open/serving alcohol after 1AM that wasn't a club. Will got a gin and tonic in this high ball vodka glass and I ordered the same beer I've been drinking but they gave me the hef instead of the red. Obviously, disappointment all around, but we made do! (at Klub Mały Amsterdam)
Don't worry, we're walking! #Polish #beer #publicsafety #neverdrinkanddrive #Ksiazece (at Brama Jazz Cafe)
Inside I found some drinkable #beer! Again, I had three options: one clearly labeled a pilsner, one on draft listed above it (so following menu convention--worse) and one in a bottle listed below it (common sense says best). It was described to me as a "red", it says lager on the bottle. I dunno, I drank it! Tasted like a red ale to me. It was very hard to pronounce. There's an "r" sound in there, but I don't know which letters are making it. Our waitress smiled at me good-naturedly after she asked me if I speak English, har har. #Ksiazece (at Brama Jazz Cafe)
Gave my body a couple days to adjust and it's finally #beer time! Will and I grabbed dinner at this Thai place tonight ("exotic restaurant"). We sat on the floor and I had three options--"Thai Beer" (Singha), "European Beer" (Heineken), and "Polish Beer" (#Zyweic). Obviously I got Zyweic and it was as good as you'd expect based on the other choices, haha. Where my Baltic Porters at?! (at Buddha Thai & Fusion Restaurant)
BrewDog Russian Doll
The beautifully labelled creations you see before you (courtesy of the fantastic Esther McManus) form the most recent of BrewDog’s special releases. Four beers brewed with the same ingredients but with the hop and malt ratio altered to suite the specific styles, which increase in strength from a pale ale to an India pale ale to a double IPA to a barley wine. Pale, cara, and dark crystal malts do the malty thing while Cascade, Centennial, Citra, and Simcoe represent the green stuff.
Without further ado (I know, right?) it’s time to try ‘em. First up is the Russian Doll Pale Ale (4.0% abv), modestly hopped with tropical fruit fruit flavours, orange, and pine needles, it wasn’t ‘til it warmed in my hand towards cellar temp that it came alive with malty goodness, caramel drizzled chopped nuts getting a nod of appreciation. Light and eminently crushable, a good start.
Russian Doll IPA (6.0% abv) moves in exactly the direction you’d expect, hoppy with stripped back malts. Freshly squeezed orange juice leads the citrus hop charge, there’s a nice resinous quality and a hint of biscuity malt. A good hit of bitterness brings things to a close, the body’s more substantial and the mouthfeel more rounded than the pale. A better suit for me.
My love of DIPA’s meant that the Russian Doll Double IPA (8.0% abv) was the one I was most looking forward to. Sweet up front with bags of chewy, resinous, citrusy, tropical hops, a touch of caramel malt that kinda pretends to reign in the hop overload for a second or two then just says “fuck it” and stands back as the bitter wave of hop aggression charges past heading straight for your taste buds. A nice US style DIPA, not their best, but highly enjoyable.
Last up, after a hour or so recuperation, was Russian Doll Barley Wine (10.0% abv). By far the most gorgeous colour of the four, it and kinda tastes like blackberry jam, caramel sauce, and grapefruit juice all stirred together with a pine bough. Being an American style barley wine it’s certainly hoppy, but the hops never overshadow the malts and drag it into DIPA territory. It’s sweet and sticky, nicely boozy but not overpowering, a real tasty brew.
And I’m done. Of the four the DIPA and barley wine were (rather predictably) my favourites, but I can’t honestly say that any of these beers come close to surpassing BrewDog’s other examples of their particular styles. For a mere tenner though, this new piece of playful experimentation from the Scottish craft brewers has been highly enjoyable. And that artwork almost makes the purchase worthwhile in itself. Cheers!
Sick label art.
Drinking is bad, feelings are worse.
The divine happiness of coming home from a long day at work and discovering, yes, there is #beer in your fridge. Plus the added bonus of it matching today's outfit perfectly. #BackinBlack #blackIPA #craftbeer #21stAmendment (at Lumpy Space)