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| Now in my second year, A Whale A Week is my challenge to try (with an array of beer loving friends) a rare beer for every week of the year. Last year I had a great time with this and have continued it for 2016. Not every beer will be a truly “white whale” beer, but all are hard to find and a treat to try! This week we try something different. Tired of just trying out one beer (and lets be honest how can I really shrink my cellar at this rate) each week, we’re going to break out a bunch of them!
This week we do the second of a two-part series on Sierra Nevada’s classic Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale. This is a beer that I first tried back in the 1990’s and promptly spat out in disgust. How and why would someone create such a bitter beast of a beer? Sierra Nevada was really one of the first American craft breweries, and is still sitting pretty today as one of the biggest and still most popular. Their Pale ale was one of the very first commercially available, and really set the guide … |
Source: JABlog: A Minnesota-Centric Beer Blog
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