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| It’s that time of week again for my new blog entry series: A Whale A Week! This week, I went completely opposite from the incredibly tart Cantillon Lou Pepe Kriek to the boozy malt-bomb that is Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout.
Some deep background for this epic beer. I went to medical school in Chicago back in 1996-2000. That seems like a long, long, long time ago now. My first real experience with craft beers (other than a couple of shameful Sam Adams and Pyramid fruit beers) was at Goose Island’s Clybourn Brewpub. I used to go down to the brewpub for lunch and a beer sampler, taking my time and getting out of my ghetto basement apartment to study. Once my future wife moved to Chicago to be with me, we continued to frequent this place. I remember going to one of the first Barrel Aged Beer Festivals in the backroom (now occupied by Siebel) in the brewpub. At that time they had something like 8-10 beers available for trial an most were not good. Things have come a long … |
Source: JABlog: A Minnesota-Centric Beer Blog
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