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We're back at McGillin's Old Ale House, celebrating their 150th anniversary! To make things sweeter, we're bringing you one of our all-time favorite beers. Pat Conway from Great Lakes Brewing Company was once again incredibly kind, and found and sent us a big bottle of their Barrel Aged Blackout Stout. 9% ABV, brewed and then aged in Jim Beam barrels, it's an incredibly complex Russian Imperial Stout that's very hard to get - but VERY worth the hunt. If you've had it, leave us a comment and let us know what you thought.
400 plus years ago, cereal crops in parts of Scotland were grown in Bladderwrack seaweed beds, which lent grains like barley a unique flavor. Now Strathaven Ales and the Craighill Brewery are trying to recapture that uniqueness in their Kelpie Seaweed Ale. They add seaweed and organic barley to the mash tun, and create a Scottish gruit beer. It turns out the beer is very good and easy to drink, but any unique flavor from the seaweed is just a bit too subdued.
Stone, founded in 1996, is pretty well known for their hoppy beers. Their Levitation Ale - technically an American Red/Amber Ale - has some nice floral overtones, which are eventually subdued by the "big hoppy characteristic..." A good overall hopped American Amber, great for the summer, Stone has another winner on their hands.
Claiming to be the first American wheat beer ever produced, the Anchor Summer Beer is 50% wheat malt, yet oddly, completely filtered. We know that Anchor is one of the oldest craft breweries in the US, dating back to at least 1896. Unfortunately, that alone is not enough to make a beer awesome, and this one falls just a little short in our eyes. Anchor remains one of our favorite breweries, but this beer is not, in our opinions, their biggest win.
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