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Butte Creek Brewing - Organic Porter

Butte Creek Brewing - Organic Pilsner

Adirondack Pub & Brewery - Dirty Blonde Pale Ale

Adirondack Pub & Brewery - Beaver Tail Brown Ale

Staropilsen - Staropilsen Lager

Cervejaria Sul Brasileira - Xingu Black Beer

Fulton Beer - War And Peace

Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven - La Trappe Bockbier

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Butte Creek Brewing - Organic Porter
Butte Creek Brewing - Organic Pilsner
Adirondack Pub & Brewery - Dirty Blonde Pale Ale
Adirondack Pub & Brewery - Beaver Tail Brown Ale
Staropilsen - Staropilsen Lager
Cervejaria Sul Brasileira - Xingu Black Beer
Fulton Beer - War And Peace
Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven - La Trappe Bockbier

Butte Creek Brewing - Organic Porter

Style: American Porter
ABV: 6.0%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 18
Serving Temperature: 47-52º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: NZ Pacific Gem, Cascade, Wakatu
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Wheat, Caramel-120, Chocolate
Country: United States

This porter pours a gorgeous reddish-brown color topped with a big, robust head of khaki foam. In the aroma department, there are some impressions of sweetness along with abundant notes of toasted bread and caramel, with a light roasty tone. We picked up a spicy hint through the center of it all, along with a light undercurrent of dark fruit, and some zesty hop notes. On the palate, expect a very approachable interpretation of a porter that’s...

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Butte Creek Brewing - Organic Pilsner

Style: German-style Pilsner
ABV: 4.5%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 26
Serving Temperature: 40-45º F
Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass, Flute
Hops: Wakatu, Sterling
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Carapils
Country: United States

Butte Creek’s pils pours a golden straw color with a cap of crisp white foam that laces in sheets as it recedes. From the looks alone we can tell Butte Creek has drawn inspiration from German pilsners, which tend to be somewhat lighter than their Czech brethren. On the nose, pale malts deliver a touch of breadiness that forms the base on which to lay the hops. The Wakatu and Sterling hops, which are varietals descendant from the noble ...

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Adirondack Pub & Brewery - Dirty Blonde Pale Ale

Style: American Pale Ale
ABV: 4.8%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 25
Serving Temperature: 42-47º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Galena, Bravo, Chinook, Cascade
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Flaked Oats, Caramel Pilsner, Wheat
Country: United States

On the pour, expect a fair amount of carbonation as this pale ale builds a big, persistent, fluffy cap of white foam overtop a lightly hazy golden hue. We loved the aroma on this one – it’s chocked full of inviting, juicy hop notes reminiscent of both citrus and tropical fruit, with more than a bit of floral character thrown in for good measure. Look for the hops to be front and center on the palate, too. This isn’t built as an IPA...

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Adirondack Pub & Brewery - Beaver Tail Brown Ale

Style: American Brown Ale
ABV: 4.9%
Int’l Bittering Units (IBUs): 40
Serving Temperature: 45-50º F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass or Mug
Hops: Falconer’s Flight
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Munich, Vienna, Caramel Munich, Chocolate
Country: United States

Beaver Tail presents nicely in the glass, boasting a rich mahogany color with amber highlights and a robust cap of foam. Caramelized malt undertones offer more than a little toasty bread in the aroma, while a very aromatic array of hops delivers citrus notes which lean toward tangerine and grapefruit, along with a touch of herbal pine. The Falconer’s Flight hops used for both the boil and dry-hopping are not a single varietal; they’re actually...

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Staropilsen - Staropilsen Lager

Style: Czech Pilsener
ABV: 4.7%
Serving Temperature: 42-47° F
Suggested Glassware: Pilsner Glass
Country: Czech Republic

Pouring a crystal-clear, rich golden color, topped by a big, billowing head of bright white foam, Staropilsen certainly looks like what we expect from an authentic Czech pils. Notice how the color is a shade deeper than many German pilsners – this is also a characteristic of the classic Czech version of the style. On the nose, this brew delivers a clean, lightly spicy and earthy hop aroma which overlays a noticeable malt character of crackers...

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Cervejaria Sul Brasileira - Xingu Black Beer

ABV: 4.7%
Serving Temperature: 45-50° F
Suggested Glassware: Pint Glass, Stein or Oversized Wine Glass
Country: Brazil

When you pour this beer you’ll see we ain’t lyin’ – this is one black beer. But Xingu is not to be confused with the German style of black beer known as Schwarzbier; this is an entirely different species and is quite unusual. On the nose, there are not the big roasty notes one expects from such a dark brew. Instead there’s an impressive complexity including sweetness akin to treacle (which is like a heavy, almost medicinal molasses), notes of ani...

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Fulton Beer - War And Peace

Style: Russian Imperial Stout with Coffee
ABV: 9.5%
Serving Temperature: 50–59° F
Suggested Glassware: Snifter, Small Nonic, or Bordeaux Glass
Country: United States

A brief primer: this is a Russian-style imperial stout that’s been conditioned with whole-bean Peace Coffee. (Hence the name, and a hat tip to Tolstoy.) More specifically: dark roast, local, delicious, nicely integrated, Minneapolis-made coffee. The brewery explains: “Like Tolstoy’s masterpiece, it may take some time to finish, and require some thought along the way.” The core of this isn’t letting any light through—pouring dark chocolate...

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Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven - La Trappe Bockbier

Style: Bock
ABV: 7%
Serving Temperature: 50–59° F
Suggested Glassware: Dimpled Mug, Tulip, or Chalice
Country: Netherlands

Without giving away the ending, we’ll say this: this is unlike any bock we’ve tasted before. We poured tastes of this into Pinot-appropriate stemware, producing just a great-looking glass: deep caramel-brown tones, dark cola, with really nicely rendered foam. Big headed, small bubbled, and lots of impressive retention and lacing that was almost like icing. One could pretty much guarantee from appearance that, at the least, this would be interesting.

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