I honestly have no idea what that means. The banana was definitely there in the taste and in the aroma, and it was kind of nice, but banana bread? Maybe I need to try this one along with some real banana bread as a side kick and compare the two, but with the likelihood of an indigestion-inducing taste test, I probably won't. So, if anyone does, please let me know. This beer is brewed in Bedford, England, and one good thing is that they use only Fair Trade Bananas.
I don't drink a lot of milk but after the Banana Bread beer, decided a nice tall glass of Left Hand Milk Stout was needed. This is actually a beer style I've wanted to try for some time and I'm glad this blog pushed me to it. According to Beeriety Milk stouts are described as:. Pouring milk into a glass of IPA seems like a terrible, terrible idea. Fortunately that's not what milk stout is at all. It's actually a tasty and delicious form of stout that is a great way to introduce someone to the world of heavier beers.
Let's take a look at what this style has to offer. There really is no milk in the beer, but rather lactose sugar. This is the type of sugar found in milk and one of the main things that gives it its creamy goodness.
The Left Hand brewery website notes that "Milk sugar in your stout is like cream in your coffee. I really liked this beer. It was very dark and definitely a stout, but it was smooth, a bit on the sweet side and for want of a better word, creamy. I thought I could smell a hint of something like milk, but my wife didn't, so maybe the name was just playing games with my nose?
I wouldn't want to drink more than one, and probably not for breakfast, but it might be nice for raking leaves on a cool crisp fall day. Since this breakfast was a little on the liquid side and certainly no Jersey Diner breakfast special, I wasn't quite full yet. Oatmeal is always filling. This beer is as good as it gets for a stout. It is better to make them all into cyder. Find out what's happening in East Brunswick with free, real-time updates from Patch.
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Make sure your replies stay on topic. Review the Patch Community Guidelines. Reply to this article Reply. And so it went My brother Alan and his family drove in from Massachusetts and gave me 4 beautiful tap handles for the Kegerator, AJ and Shari brought big bombers of Belgian's and Brian and Sarah big bombers from the Brooklyn Brewery , Howard and Eileen drove down from Connecticut and combined two of my favorite things; the Mets and beer with a beautiful engraved Mets mug and a Mets bottle opener, Tom gave me a great book on cooling with beer that I cant wait to try out, Jake's girlfriend Tia, gave me a cook book on Tasting Beer that I started reading last night, and my parents both thoughtful and tolerant gave me Garrett Oliver's Beer Encyclopedia and a cool beer sign that says how to order a beer in something like 25 languages an important and ever useful bit of knowledge, right up there with Donde esta el bano?
But incredibly there was still more Ervin and Jill called to wish me a hoppy birthday from the Bear Republic Brewery in northern California where they were sampling some very tasty brews if you haven't tried Racer 5, it is delicious. Susan and Mark drove down from Connecticut with six packs of City Steam beer and a cool beer T-shirt.
Todd came with a nice cold six pack of Dale's Pale Ale and Michael brought a sampler six pack of Flying Dog from his home state of Maryland and a six pack of Ale , a historical brew celebrating Maryland that sounds really interesting. And yet, if that wasn't enough and it wasn't, because I really do like getting gifts despite saying I don't , Joey and Michelle came from Connecticut with a brand new cooler filled with beer and mixers and summer beach toys for our annual family beach vacation to Delaware.
Carol gave me a Marlston's Oyster Stout from England brewed with oyster shells. And my very close friends the Liberty's and Baker's gave me a gift card to MarketPlace Liquors, a place that has a beer wall and cooler that is as close to heaven on earth as there can be. And for the piece-de-resistance, Mindy who is one of my oldest friends I've known her along time, not that she is old chronologically-good cover, right?
Astoundingly thoughtful! There were also loads of cool beer-themed cards to convey birthday wishes and so many close friends and family to share a beer with regardless of what birthday gift they brought. Hopefully I didn't leave any beer-gifts out, but it doesn't matter because I would have traded all of them to simply spend the day with all of my great friends and family except the Kegerator, beer samplers, books, T-shirts, mugs, gift card, golden chalice, growler The views expressed in this post are the author's own.
I don't like all of them, but they are one of the industry leaders in innovation. Dogfish holds a special place for me too. Each summer when we head to Delaware for our annual beach vacation, our entire family regardless of where they travelled from, converges at the Dogfish brewpub to kick things off as a respite from the awful sinful traffic that plagues Route 1 south each summer weekend.
We hug and smile and say its been way too long since we saw each other a year ago and then immediately kickoff beach week with cold beers and filled growlers of fresh beer to go. Ervin and Jill, this is where you volunteer to write a Guest Blog about Lagunitas! I'm sure I will profile more of the DogFish Head beers from time to time. The 60 Minute IPA, at least to me is nirvana in a bottle. It is probably a bit too hoppy for a lot of people, but I don't really care.
Get your own damn favorite beer, this is my beer blog. Seriously though, the fun thing about beer is simply the vast number of styles, each with its own taste and qualities.
Try different ones. Some you will like, some you wont. See how a lager from Norway or Japan or Ohio differ, try a Belgian Abbey beer that's been brewed in the same Monastery for years, or a big bold bitter hoppy California or Oregon beer, or just grab a Corona or a Pabst or a Guinness and kick back and relax.
And let me know what you tried and what you thought of it. I'm always open to try a new beer! Check out RateBeer and read about what you tried or tool around the site and pick out something that looks interesting and track it down and give it a whirl.
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