This week we’re bringing you a special New Years Eve show about the champaign of beers, sort of. The audio quality is a bit off, I won’t bore you with why, but safe to say this show almost didn’t happen. Better a bit bad sounding YNB than none at all I always say.
We also skipped the news this New Years Eve, and as a special present we are releasing this early, so you can go out and snag our featured beer, Hennepin.
Hennepin
Well, it sounds this week like we have taken a step back down the ladder of good beer, doesn’t it, with Miller High Life as the topic of discussion. Through clever marketing, Miller High Life has gotten itself the label, Champagne of Beers, and being that tonight is New Years Eve, we figured it would be a great time to talk about it.
However, we aren’t really going to suggest that you go out and get a Miller and tell all of your friends that this is the pinnacle of the beer world in comparison to Champagne.
Instead, we are going to talk about a beer that both Jake and I feel have a lot of the same characteristics of a good glass of grape bubbly, Ommegangs Hennipin.
- This is the first Ommegang beer that we have done so lets go over the brewery a little bit. Ommegang brewery is located in Cooperstown, New York.
- The brewery is generally known for there line of belgian beers, including Three Philosophers, Abbey Ale, and Rare Vos, a dark belgian ale.
- This is a rather wide spread beer, and you should be able to get it in most states, at least 45 of them at last check.
- The vitals on this beer first. It weighs in at about 7.7% ABV, which is rather on the mark for a Belgian beer. The beer is generally classified as a farmhouse of Saison ale, one of the many styles that come from belgian.
- The taste is something that you would not expect from a typical American beer. The beer smells a fair amount like a wheat beer, and has that same general haze. This is due to the fact that this is a bottle conditioned beer and the yeast is still in the beer.
- Different than a wheat beer though, there is a hop bight that some through in a citrus and almost vineous flavor.
- So, why are we doing this as the Champagne of beers? Well, in our mind it shares some of the same characteristics of Champagne.
Next Week
We will begin our porter series next week, and right now I am not sure which beer we are going to start with, but I promise it will be a great show, so make a new years resloution to tune in and tell as many people as you can to listen!
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