I just popped the cork on it and poured a goblet full. Gorgeous colour and aroma to it but the taste is a bit on the dull side for me I mean, there's some plum notes and sweet malt flavour but the alcohol is a bit more noticeable than I like. Still, it's is, overall, quite good so I *would* buy this again.
One of my favorites that I can get here in South Georgia, but my selection is limited.
-- Dennis "bluestringer" Paramore Albany, Ga. VROC 13910 GAVROC 159
2004 800A
My favorite was always Hennepin.
One time I tried a taste test with some Hennepin and some (Yeungling's Lord Chesterfield Ale) and could only detect a small difference (and there's a big difference in the bucks you pay :-). I drink Chesterfield when I'm in its distribution area (usually sitting around the campfire at our "summer palace" in the woods near Gouldsboro); maybe it's just my lack of taste.
But nowadays the Chesterfield tallnecks are gone and instead the bottles are different. Maybe the beer also is not as good. I tested a new-bottle beer against a baltika #9, and there was virtually no difference -- but then there was no #9 in the stores for a few months and the next batch just tasted bleah and the next batch (with the new lables) also tasted bleah. I would appreciate some hints on what happened there...
I really need to get some Hennepin and some new-bottle Chesterfield and test all over again. That was more than 5 years ago... In a bar in Philly 2 months ago, I liked draft Philly Pale Ale better than my beloved Chesterfield, so what's going on?
Very bewildering. I kind of expect beers and my preferences to stay the same.
I thought Hennepin and Lord Chesterfield were two different style ales. The Hennepin being a Saison style and Chesterfield a blond ale style, but I may be mistaken.
bluestringer
Chet's actually a lager; all of Yuengling's beers are.
Not the porter.
snipped-for-privacy@charter.net (Mortis) wrote on 02 Nov 2005:
Actually, it is a lager, but thanks for playing. More of a Baltic porter, albeit a lower abv Baltic porter than you may be used to.
Witzel
Sorry. Yuengling's only got a lager yeast; ALL their beers are lagers. Trust me on this: I've been visiting the brewery since 1986, I've written eight or ten articles on the place. Just because your style sheet says porters are ales, doesn't mean commercial brewers have to do it that way. No law on the books says a beer labeled 'porter' has to be an ale-brewed porter: as Witzel half-assedly points out, most of the Baltic porters are lagers. Mind-expanding, ain't it?
You frickin' honker, Yueng Porter ain't no Baltic porter. More like a Mexican oscura. Probably descended from a schwarzbier, if you know your history well enough. Seriously, I'd say Yuengling porter and the old Stegmaier Porter were a class unto themselves: Pennsylvania porter.
There's an interesting article on the history of Pennsylvania Porters about it from Brewing Techniques here:
Bill Coleman
Just Look At A Map!
I think Hennepin's a saison. It's certainly a good beer.
"Lew Bryson" wrote on 02 Nov 2005:
Jesus Lew, you're way too easy.
But like Jole said, schwarzbier and Baltic porter must be related, right? They look the same, and, come on, Germany... Baltica....
Witzel
You wouldn't want me any other way.
That makes as much sense as Imperial IPA. Quick, call Michael Jackson!!
Tease. With any luck I'll be picking up a case of this tomorrow. For $18.
Hey, once I was drinking with Michael Jackson, and we went to the bathroom, and he said that Corona was just like pee, and we laughed because he's smart and stuff.
True story!!!1!
Witzel
To me, they tasted nearly nearly the same with but a slight edge to Hennepin. This description of my judging criteria (general impression, and nothing further) gives you an idea of my lack of knowledge in this area.
Yes, it's amazing to hear that.
Ooh! ooh! My local supermarket in Kew Gardens, Queens, NY, has lots of baltic porter, then. Like the black beer from Riga. One day I opened a Guinness Stout, a Baltika #6, and a Rigan black, and poured three glasses. Not just a two-fisted beer drinker, but a three. The Guinness and the #6 seemed same to me, and the Rigan seemed a bit less good. The last several bottles of #6 have been yucky, though. So far, the #8 weissbier is okay. The latest cases are at the bottom of a stack of #3. I keep waiting for the #8 to be opened.
Baltika seemed so good for a while but ...
So, do you think the Chesterfield in the NR bottles is as good as it was in the traditional tallnecks?
Whoah! I am impressed by your arcane erudition.
But current Stegmaier not so good, right? (I am sometimes in NE Pennsylvania).
But I was born in SW Pennsylvania, Pgh to be exact, where Arn City and Olde Frothingsloshe were the tops.
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