Ms. BeerGeek and I began gearing up for judging at this weekend’s Upper-Mississippi Mashout. One of the categories we’re assigned to judge is German wheat beers.
So, to go with tonight’s dinner of braised short-ribs, we picked the Schneider’s Dunkelweizen. It has a characteristically big banana nose (75%) with substantial clove (25%) notes, too. [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Dark Wheat: it’s what’s for dinner
January 21, 2008Bring on the Funk: Ommegeddon
January 13, 2008I’d been sitting on a bottle of Ommegang brewery’s Ommegeddon Funkhouse Ale with Brettanomyces for a while, thinking I should try it with some funky cheeses. Yesterday, Ms. BeerGeek, the new little BeerGeek-in-training and I were in NE Mpls. and got to Surdyk’s. Based on what I’d expected, the monger there actually suggested [...]
