BEERS OF THE WEEK: (From Your Host, Dan VK!)
Found the following at Ladd's this week:
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
| alcohol content 6.8% by volume | bittering hops Chinook |
| beginning gravity 16.0 Plato | finishing hops Cascade & Centennial |
| ending gravity 4.0 Plato | dry hopping Cascade & Centennial |
| bitterness units 62 | malts Two-row Pale & English Caramel |
| yeast Top-fermenting Ale Yeast |
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The long, cold nights of winter are a little brighter with Celebration® Ale. Wonderfully robust and rich, Celebration® Ale is dry-hopped for a lively, intense aroma. Brewed especially for the holidays, it is perfect for a festive gathering or for a quiet evening at home.
"…best beer ever made in America."
– Stan Sessor, San Francisco Chronicle
GOLD MEDAL WINNER
United States Beer Tasting Championship (IPA: 1994)
FIRST PLACE
Chicago Beer Society — 1996 Fall Beer Tasting
SILVER MEDAL WINNER
California State Fair (IPA: 1999)
Great American Beer Festival (IPA: 2002)
Hang Ten, Weizen Dopplebock
ABV: Approx. 10%
Hang Ten is the Heavy Seas wheat beer you've been waiting for. A classic German-style weizen bock, slightly cloudy and bursting with flavor. Hang on and surf the Heavy Seas wave! Seasonally available in July while supplies last.
Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock 2008
5.5% alchohol
This beer was $15 for a single 750 ML bottle at Ladd's. (I had to pass on this one but thought it was worth a mention!)
Description from Samuel Adams website:
Samuel Adams® partnered Felchlin, a renowned Swiss chocolatier, to develop a unique innovation, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock. We started with a complex selection of carefully roasted malts combined with hand-selected Noble hops from Bavaria, the world's oldest growing area. After using a centuries old brewing process, called Krausening, we slowly aged the beer on a bed of rare dark cocoa nibs from Felchlin®, a renowned Swiss chocolatier. Known for their quality these wild cocoa nibs, harvested from the rainforest of Northern Bolivia, impart complex aromas and flavors of chocolate, honey and vanilla in the beer. The resulting beer, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock, has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate, giving this brew a complex full-body taste with a velvety finish.
Tettnang-Tettnanger and Spalt hops were hand-selected from the world's oldest growing area and combined with a complex selection of malts including two-row Pale, Munich and Caramel to create a rich and satisfying brew. This dark beer has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate. Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock was aged on a bed of cocoa nibs to create its unique layers of flavor. As the beer matured, the fruity, tart, earthy and chocolate aromas were released into the liquid to give the brew a complex, full -bodied taste with a velvety finish. A hint of vanilla was added to meld the symphony of flavors together.
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