Eitan: In preparation of the "snow storm" on Saturday, and knowing I'd be to lazy to cook or go out after hockey on Friday night, I took the opportunity to get some delicious sandwiches and some beer from Beirkraft for dinner. The sandwiches, one ham and cheese, the other Serrano ham, were fantastic as usual. We also had a beer with dinner and one for dessert.
With dinner we had a Stoudt's Triple because I was in the mood for a nice Abbey Ale. I bought two small bottles, one for each. It poured a golden color with some shades of orange. It had a descent amount of white head and pretty good head retention with some lacing. It had a smell of spices and a bit of sweetness like a triple should have. It had a pretty good taste, not really complex, very similar to most descent triples. It had a bit of that sweetness and spice taste at first and then a bit of hops flavor towards the end. It had high carbonation and a nice crisp feel. It is a very good triple to have if you're looking for something domestic and you want some thing new to have. It is easy to drink and is about 9% abv.
For dessert I bought a small bottle of Oud Beersel Framboise. I was really in the mood for a good traditional lambic beer and one of the guys at Bierkraft recommended it. I poured it in to my St. Louis lambic glass, and taking the suggestion from the label, I chilled the glass for a little bit. It poured a hazy diluted red color, not quite red but not quite pink either. It had a good amount of fizzy white head with ok retention. Right away it had this tart/sour and sweet raspberry smell. I really enjoyed the taste of this beer, my worry was that it would be really sweet and syrupy like other framboise beers. It was not like that at all, at first it has a nice sweet taste and then starts with a nice tart raspberry flavor. Overall it has a nice mix of tart/sour and sweet taste. It was high in carbonation, very crisp feeling and light body. I was definitely happy with this beer, it was no Cantillon beer, but it was up there for a lambic beer. I was happy with this beer, especially that it was not super sweet and syrupy, a very good post dinner beer.
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