December 2009
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#12beers of Beercember Troegs Mad Elf Review
It’s Christmas Eve, normally a happy time of year, but this year with a minor note of sadness, as this is the last day of the very fun Nathaniel Square Corner Store #12beers of Beercember event.
The final beer is the beer I have been most looking forward too from day one. A new beer for me, this is Troegs Mad Elf. A Belgian style strong dark ale seasoned with honey and cherries. The...
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Watchhtmh #42 The Christmas Special
Merry Christmas everyone, This is out last show of 2009, and a very special episode, where Rob gives us his recipe for home made lung butter, Keith recaps his surgery, We sing a carol or two (well one anyway) and Rob can’t finish his Holiday Porter.
~ Pre-Holiday Pre-Amble
~ Introduction #42
~ Listener Feedback
~ Sam Adam’s Holiday Porter 2/5...
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#12beers of Beercember Unibroue La Fin Du Monde...
It’s the 11th day of Nathaniel Square Corner Store’s #12beers of Beercember event, and beer number 11 is from one of my favorite breweries, and happens to be one of my favorite beers too.
Tonight we have Unibroue’s amazing La Fin Du Monde (end of the world) beer. It’s a Belgian Tripel weighing in at an nice round 9% ABV.
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#12beers of Beercember Great Lakes Nosferatu...
Day 10 brings us to one of the brew I have been looking forward too since the beginning of the Nathaniel Square #12beers event. Great Lakes Nosferatu. Because nothing says the holidays like blood sucking undead. ;-)
Nosferatu is listed by Beer Advocate as an American Strong Ale with a respectable 8% ABV.
It pours a dark bronze color, with a thin head that manages to stick around. The...
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#12beers of Beercember Spaten Optimator Review
On the 9th day of #Beercember @NathanielSquare sold to me, One Spaten Optimator.
The Optimator is not some sort of robo beer overlord, no in fact it’s a classic German Dopplebock produced the same way for well over six hundred years. I know this not only because it’s on the label, but because Rob and I reviewed the Optimator back on happy time magic hour #24.
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#12beers of Beercember Weyerbacher Quad Review
The 8th day of Nathaniel Square’s #12beers of Beercember brings us to Easton PA for Weyerbacher’s version of a Belgian Grand Cru’ or Quadrupel, The Wyerbacher Quad.
Belgian quads are a strong spiced seasonal ale known for a high ABV and this one follows suite nicely with a big 11.8%
The brew pours a rusty brown with a thin head that retreats to the edge of the glass almost...
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#12beers of Beercember Skull Splitter Orkney Ale...
Day seven of Nathaniel Square Corner Store’s 12Beers of Beercember event and nothing says Holiday Ale quite the way a good Skull Splitter does…
Seriously who voted this into a holiday beer list? I suppose the Scottish warrior on the label dressed up in a red and white cloak sort of kind of looks like Santa, maybe, if you squint, and the red foil on the top could be construed to a...
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#12beers of Beercember Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
Six beers into Nathaniel Square’s #12Beers of #Beercember marks the half way point of the event, and I have to say it’s bee a lot of fun. Today though I am particularly challenged because today I am not supposed to be drinking beer….
You see I had a bit of minor surgery today, part of the recovery from said surgery is some pain meds that claim to not be compatible with...
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#12beers of Beercember Flying Dog's In-Heat Wheat...
Day five of the Nathanial Square Corner Store #12Beers event is here and instead of five “golden rings” we have a “golden brew.” A nice departure from the dark side that we have been living in thus far as we are drinking Flying Dog’s In-Heat Wheat.
The In-Heat Wheat which has to be one of the best/worst names for a beer ever is a Hefeweizen style brew, which if I...
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#12beers of Beercember Great Lakes Edmund...
It’s day 4 of Nathanial Square Corner Store’s Beercember event. Tonight’s recommended selection is Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald. A Porter from the far off distant land of Cleveland.
If you look on Beer Advocate this is one highly rated brew, holding an A score for over 1000, reviews. But the more important question is what do we, and by we I mean I, think of it. ;-)
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Watchhtmh #41 Old Fezziwig’s Hernia
In this weeks show Rob & Keith try Sam Adam’s Old Fezziwig, Rob shuns Toby McGuire as Bilbo and Keith heads under the knife. Check it out!
Preamble, now with video (well for us, not you) ;-)
Introduction #41
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Sam Adam’s Old Fezziwig Ale 5/5 (5+5)
Rudolf or Peanuts, who can tell them...
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#12beers of Beercember Kostritzer Schwarzbier...
Hello and welcome to day three of Nathanial Squares #12beers event. Today’s featured brew is… Well to heck with the build up you probably already read it in the title. Besides it’s not easy to spell.
I had no idea what to expect from this beer before this review so I tweeted a question to the rest #12beers gang to see what they thought of it. The answers I got back...
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#12beers of Beercember Left Hand Milk Stout review
It’s the second day of Nathaniel Square Corner Store’s Beercember event, it’s me Keith again with a review of today’s selection Left Hand Brewing Company’s Milk Stout.
Those of you who are long time listeners to happy time magic hour may remember we actualy have had this beer on the show.
htmh #9 left hand mil stout & the right hands of tolkien
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#12beers of Beercember the "Suggested" Order
There seems to be some confusion around the Nathaniel Square Corner Store #12beers event. So @tryfailtry and I have (well mostly him) have put together our Suggested order of drinking the beers.
1) Fuller’s ESB
2) Left Hand Milk Stout
3) Köstritzer Schwarzbier
4) Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald
5) Flying Dog In-Heat Wheat
6) Oskar Blues 10 FIDY
7) Orkney Brewery...
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#12beers of Beercember Fuller's ESB Review
Hey gang, Keith here, and I am participating Nathaniel Square’s 12 Beers of Christmas. Nathanial Square Corner Store of Rochester, NY, put together a limited number of mixed 12 packs, and we/I will be reviewing one beer a day until Christmas.
Now there is no order of beers for the event but I will try and see what everyone is drinking that night on twitter and do the same here. If you...
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Watchhtmh #40 Sam’s Winter Lager & No Cable Kymmy
Back from the fail with a 100% working and normal (whatever that is) show. This week Rob & Keith continue our talk with Cindy and Kym about ditching the Cable. Rob points out a great injustice, and we all enjoy a decent winter brew…
Preamble
Introduction to show #40
Listener Feedback
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Watchhtmh #39b the fail show with sam’s failed cranberry lambic
Ugh, the fail show. Keith failed to record the whole show, so we have a very short episode. You see I managed to only record Rob’s half of the conversation, so I threw together another recording with Rob’s monologue on The Sam Adams Cranberry Lambic.
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