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Greene King Brewery - Olde Suffolk

La Choulette Brewery - La Coulette Framboise

De Scheldebrouwerij - Hansje Drinker

Belhaven Brewery Company Ltd. - Belhaven Scottish Ale

Big City Brewing Company Ltd. - Jamaica Stout

Lakefront Brewing Company - Eastside Dark

Lakefront Brewing Company - Lakefront White Beer

Atwater Block Brewery - Atwater Pilsner

Atwater Block Brewery - Vanilla Java Porter

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	4 styles: 12 bottles	4 styles: 12 bottles	3 styles: 12 bottles	2 styles: 12 bottles	2 styles: 2, 4 or 6 btls
Greene King Brewery - Olde Suffolk
La Choulette Brewery - La Coulette Framboise
De Scheldebrouwerij - Hansje Drinker
Belhaven Brewery Company Ltd. - Belhaven Scottish Ale
Big City Brewing Company Ltd. - Jamaica Stout
Lakefront Brewing Company - Eastside Dark
Lakefront Brewing Company - Lakefront White Beer
Atwater Block Brewery - Atwater Pilsner
Atwater Block Brewery - Vanilla Java Porter

Atwater Block Brewery - Atwater Pilsner

ABV: 4.70%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 31
Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass or Pint Glass
Hops: Tettnang
Malts: Pilsner
Country: United States

The world’s most popular style of beer is Pilsner, and it is sorely underrepresented in the world of microbrewed beers. Atwater’s version gives you an idea of what ‘mainstream’ beer used to be like in the U.S. prior to prohibition: flavorful! On the nose, expect grassy, floral, herbal hops—so characteristic of the Tettnang varietal used in this beer—along with clean, fresh malt and grain notes. On the palate, look for crisp, lightly sweet malt no...

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De Scheldebrouwerij - Hansje Drinker

Style: Belgian-style Triple Ale
ABV: 8.00%
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Goblet, Chalice or Tulip
Country: Netherlands

“A Taste of Dutch courage” claims the label. Drink enough of it and you may feel you can take on the world. The label depicts what the name plays on, the famous Hansje Brinker, the heroic Dutch boy who put his finger in the dike to hold back the floodwaters. Hansje Drinker, on the other hand, has his finger poorly holding back the flow from a barrel tipped on its side, and a full tulip full of beer. The beer is flowing right into the snow… (this ...

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Atwater Block Brewery - Vanilla Java Porter

ABV: 6.00%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 14
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Large Coffee Mug (best enjoyed on your day off)
Country: United States

Wake up and smell the beer! This brew has vanilla and Java beans added to it, explaining the unique aroma. Expect roasted coffee beans and a bite of vanilla on the nose. Look for roasted coffee flavors, chicory, ultra-dark chocolate, and a lactic (milk-like) flavor. Overall, the flavor is smoother than the sharp nose suggests, presenting prominent vanilla and slightly woody notes, rounded out by a chocolate milk and coffee-like finish, fading wit...

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Lakefront Brewing Company - Eastside Dark

ABV: 5.50%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 11.7
Serving Temperature: 48-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass or Mug (opaque)
Hops: Mt. Hood
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Munich, Caramunich, Chocolate, Carafa (de-husk)
Country: United States

This beer was a Silver medal winner at the 2003 World Beer Championship. Expect rich bagel dough notes with a touch of rye-like spiciness and fresh, roasted barley. Look for coffee notes throughout, blossoming as it warms, all wrapped in chocolate and faint hints of raisins. Packed with flavor, yet it has the smoothness and drinkability characteristic of this lager style. Gentle spiciness mingles with chocolate, prune, and medium-roast coffee bea...

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Big City Brewing Company Ltd. - Jamaica Stout

ABV: 8.00%
Serving Temperature: 50-55° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Snifter
Country: Jamaica

As a fan of better beer, you may know the history behind the birth of India Pale Ale (IPA), a style that evolved as a more highly hopped, higher alcohol by volume (ABV) Pale Ale that would survive the long sea voyage from England to the British colonies in India. So, what do England, India, and IPAs have to do with a review of a stout from Jamaica? Well, the evolution of IPA has some similarities with this beer’s stylistic subcategory: “tropical ...

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Lakefront Brewing Company - Lakefront White Beer

ABV: 4.30%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 9.5
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug (clear)
Hops: Glacier, Sterling
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Pale Wheat, Wheat Flakes, Oat Flakes
Country: United States

2003 was a great year for LBC: they took home no fewer than 5 medals from the World Beer Championship, including a Silver for this one. Expect yeasty aromas with style-standard cloves, coriander, and orange. Goes down with a hearty graininess and hoppy bitterness rather than the sour, tart quality often associated with this style. The tartness is there, but it plays second fiddle to the grainy astringency and hop bitterness. We liked this unique ...

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Belhaven Brewery Company Ltd. - Belhaven Scottish Ale

ABV: 5.20%
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass
Country: Scotland

Similar to the situation described for “stout” having many substyles, “Scottish Ale” has various subcategories. Belhaven Scottish Ale is one of the benchmarks of the “80 Shilling” or “export” version. These subcategories were initially identified based on price (in shillings, represented as “/-“), which was directly correlated to gravity (% sugars) and percent alcohol. The shilling scale ran in increments of ten, starting at 60/- (light), followe...

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Greene King Brewery - Olde Suffolk

ABV: 6.00%
Country: England

Olde Suffolk is one of Britain’s most unusual ales, and a winter classic. It is England’s last example of an ale made by the blending of old and young beers. The “old” component is aged in wooden tuns, and is the only beer in Britain still to employ that method. The technique of aging and blending, to achieve an equilibrium of malty sweetness and acidity was typical in the late 1700s and 1800s, but gradually vanished in the 1900s. Latterly, it was used in the production of strongish “stock” ales.

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La Choulette Brewery - La Coulette Framboise

Style: Bière de Garde with Raspberries
ABV: 6.00%
Serving Temperature: 40-45° F
Suggested Glassware: Flute or Small Tulip
Country: France

Framboise (pronounced: fram-bwahz) is French for raspberries and is typically associated with “lambic,” a style of beer that is traditionally made in the southwest of Brussels, Belgium, where ambient airborne yeast spontaneously ferment the beer in open, lidless vats (no yeast is added by the brewer; the beer is left in an attic space, vents to let in outside air are opened, and fans are turned on—and nature takes its course). This region of Belg...

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