The Cocktail Hour: Ales For The Holidays

Pictured inward a higher identify are the 2 ales we're tasting today.

On the left is Trader Joe's 2010 Vintage Ale.  Each twelvemonth the pop grocery shop chain commissions a novel ale for the holidays.  This year's version is a Belgian fashion chocolate-brown ale produced past times Unibroue inward Canada.

To the correct is Zoetzuur, a Flemish sour ale. You've actually got to accept a gustation for this type of Belgian ale. Letty does. She loves them as well as wishes they were to a greater extent than widely available hither inward the states. I don't. I'm trying to prepare a gustation but as well as hence far the varieties I've tried are either cloyingly sugariness (like Framboise) or tastes similar vinegar.
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Zoetzuur is brewed past times De Proefbrouweri inward Lochristi-Hijfte, Belgium.  It's a small-scale town close the Dutch border, due north of Gent.  The ale clocks inward at 7% alcohol as well as is served inward a cork operate past times bottle.  It's caput foams upwardly most an inch as well as has a lighter golden chocolate-brown color.

For taste, it's a piffling off.  True, I'm non a sour ale afficiandao, but Letty is as well as she agrees.  There's a quick gustation of, what I intend of as, grape soda.  Letty does non gustation that but nosotros both concur that there's an off-smell as well as taste.  Kind of similar a skunky beer but different.  Something that nosotros went dorsum as well as forth on equally to what just it was.  We ended upwardly agreeing that it is the aroma as well as gustation of a Equus caballus farm. 

At $10.99 for a 750 ml bottle, it's only non worth the price.  Letty is withal looking for a good, sour ale that she tin flaming larn on a regular basis.  Rodenbach is i of her favorites but difficult to abide by as well as the Bruery supposedly makes i of the finest sours unopen to but they ran out as well as it volition hold out over a twelvemonth (!) till their side past times side batch is ready.

The Trader Joe's Vintage Ale 2010, on the other hand, continues the potent tradition of bully ales released each vacation season.  It's a dark, nighttime beer but non heavy.  Extremely foamy similar the fourth dimension I used regular granulated carbohydrate to ferment some homemade beer, the caput grows real fast as well as hence y'all involve to exercise a careful pour.

The gustation is smooth, the ingredients real harmonious.  The bitterness only hits the dorsum of your pharynx on it's agency downward the agency a nice, mutual frigidity Coke Classic does.  I similar this beer quite a flake as well as at 9% alcohol content, it's no lightweight.  It's likewise a real proficient larn by at alone $4.99 for a 750 ml corked bottle.  I'll hold out going dorsum to purchase a few more.

Cheers!

-Darryl

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