Episode 92: Pittsburgh Beers – Here we Go Steelers!

A departure from the Amber series in this post Super Bowl 43 world, we talk about Pittsburgh beers.

Pittsburgh Beers

• At first I was hoping to do a comparison show between Arizona beers and Pittsburgh beers, but the only beer that I could find from Arizona was Dave’s Crazy Chili beer, and I refuse to try that.
• We are going to be tasting three beers, from three different breweries tonight, including Penn Brewery’s Penn Dark, the Church Brew Works Pious Monk Dunkle and of course, the old standard, Iron City Light.
• IC Light. is the big time Super Bowl beer for me. Made by Iron City Brewery it weighs in at 4.15%.
• On to Church Brew Works, which is located directly across from the Iron City brewery. Since they are a brewpub and you really can’t get this stuff anywhere outside of the Pittsburgh area.
• Finally lets end with the Penn Brewery’s Dark Pennis actually no longer making their beer in Pittsburgh. They have recently closed their brewery in Pittsburgh nd have been brewing all of their beer at the Lion Brewery up in Wilks-Barre. The Penn Dark weighs in at 5.0% abv.

Next Week

Another Pittsburgh Beer show. We revisit Church Brew Works and Penn to tackle two more of their beers and continue the celebration of all things Pittsburgh and beer.

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Episode 4: Boston Lager – This is the beer

In episode four we talk about Sam Adams Boston Lager. No matter where you fall on the map this week, you should be able to get this beer. We rambled on a bit, but we hear people like that hopefully almost 16 minutes isn’t to long.

News

First off, we want to remind everyone that May 13th thru the 20th is
American Craft Beer week. Go find a brewery and have a beer!

Second, Miller is rolling out a Mexican Style Beer called Miller Chill. This beer contains a “hint of salt and lime.” So far, reviews say that it tastes very artificial. However, if you want a cocktail with lime and salt try a Michelada

Boston Lager

• This weeks offering comes from Boston Brewing Company (Sam Adams) the fifth largest brewery in the country this year, moving up two spots from last year.
• You may recognize the goofy looking guy Jim Koch in the commercials.
• Again, it’s an American Lager, which means it is going to have a pretty good balance of malt and hops, but still be rather crisp.
• This most certainly tastes different between bottle and draft. The draft is a bit more hoppy.

Our next show

We will be moving to something completely different with the next show. We will be starting the Pilsner series, which still falls under the lager category but is a little more specific. We will be starting with Budweiser/Miller/Coors versions of Pilsners, and working our way up from there in the following weeks.

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Episode 3: Yuengling, the beer that’s fun to spell

In episode three we talk about Yuengling. It’s sort of hometown beer for all of PA where we are from. We know we are breaking the rules a bit by talking about a beer without nationwide distribution, but hey it’s our show

News

Slow week for news, however coming up on the horizon is the
American Craft Beer Week May 13th-20th. Good excuse to go have a
beer.

Yuengling Lager

• Means “Young Man” in German
• From Pottsville, PA and available in Alabama, Delware, Florida,

Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, PA, South
Carolina, Virginia, and DC.

• If you don’t see it now, you may in the future because this is the

6th biggest brewery in the country, right behind Boston Beer
Company. Known as America’s Oldest Brewery.

• Great first step beer, it actaully has some taste, but isn’t too

impossing, not huge on bitterness or on sweetness (hoppyness of
maltyness).

• A beer we grew up with: If you are in PA you just order a “Lager”

Next Show

We stay on the east coast for our next show and talk about Sam Adam’s Boston Lager, we promise this time.

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