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DAY 12

Bell’s Porter : Bell’s Brewery, Michigan : 5.6% ABV

Bell’s is so consistently awesome.

DAY 11

Paulaner Hefe-Weizen : Paulaner Brauerei, Germany : 5.5% ABV

Didn’t get around to drinking this one over the weekend.  Yet another solid German hefe-weizen.  It’s getting to the point that I almost want to taste a bad one.

DAY NINE

Ice fishing edition

DAY EIGHT

Schneider Weisse : G. Schneider & Son, Germany : 5.4% ABV

This is actually my least favorite of the german hefeweizens I’ve been trying lately, but it’s by no means bad.

DAY SEVEN

Ayinger Bräuweisse : Braueri Aying, Germany : 5.1% ABV

Full disclosure: I just got in from snowblowing our alley for the second time, so a warm High Life Lite would taste good right now.

But wow, I have seriously overlooked German hefeweizens.  I’ll be dedicating most of this month to remedying that.

DAY SIX

Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier : Bayerische Staatsbraurerei, Germany : 5.4% ABV

Hot damn, this is a solid, solid hefeweizen.

DAY FIVE

Kelpie Seaweed Ale : Williams Brothers Brewing, Scotland : 4.4% ABV

Color me a bit surprised.  I was expecting some bizarre or at least pronounced flavors here, but what I got was a pretty inoffensive light stout with a tiny hint of saltiness, some vague chocolate maltiness and some bubbly carbonation.  Not great, but not bad.  Just kind of there.

Text on the bottle: 

Prior to the 1850s many Scottish coastal alehouses brewed their own ales using local malted barley grown on fields fertilised with seaweed.  We have recreated the unique flavor of this traditional ale with the inclusion of fresh seaweed, Bladder Rack, which is taken fresh from the water of the Argyll coast and mashed it in with teh malted and roasted barley

Day Four

Rogue Juniper Pale Ale : Rogue Brewery, Oregon : 5.3% ABV

This actually serves two purposes-

1. Gives me my Oregon fix
2. Gives me something to shoot for when I try a juniper IPA next round of brewing.

This stuff is gold.

Day Three

Rince Cochon : Brouwerij Roman, Belgium : Blonde ale, 8.5% ABV

Extremely drinkable for a strong ale.  Maybe dangerously so.

DAY TWO

Avec Les Bons Voeux : Brasserie Dupont, Belgium : Saison, 9.5% ABV

Holy hell, this beer.  My love for Belgian saisons knows no bounds, and this is going in the regular rotation along with Ommegang’s Hennepin, Saison Dupont (also from this brewery), and Brasserie St. Feuillian Saison.

Stocking up for #feBREWary (at Discount Liquor)

Double Cream Stout : Bell’s, Kalamazoo : 6% ABV

DAY 29 : Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast Imperial Stout : Copenhagen, Denmark

7.5% ABV

OK, so the next 11 months are going to be spent collecting beers for an even better #feBREWary 2013.