The Guinness Open Gate breweries here in the U.S. (in Baltimore and Chicago) are known for having license to brew interesting, limited, non-Irish stout beers, and for the Lunar New Year this year they brewed up a fruited ale, Luck of the Dragon. Proceeds generated by the beer sales benefitted … Continue reading
Recently I received cans of the latest beer to come out of the Guinness Open Gate breweries (both in Baltimore and Chicago) — Luck of the Dragon, a fruited ale brewed to celebrate the Lunar New Year. It’s brewed with dragon fruit powder and tangerine puree and is a collaboration … Continue reading
I’ve been sitting on this review of Guinness 0, the non-alcoholic draught version of the iconic Guinness Stout, because even though I received samples in January, as it got closer to March 17 I thought reviewing it for St. Patrick’s Day made sense. Created by the St. James’s Gate brewery … Continue reading
The Guinness Open Gate Brewery near Baltimore, Maryland doesn’t just brew the ubiquitous Guinness Stout; it’s also home to an experimental brewery and taproom that cranks out a variety of distinctly non-Guinness-Stout beers. Like this Old Fashioned Inspired Ale that the brewery sent to me to review. Based on the … Continue reading
The Guinness Open Gate Brewery in the United States (in Maryland, more specifically) features an experimental brewery that brews more than just Guinness Stout. The latest release is one the company sent to me this week—Guinness Old Fashioned Inspired Ale. As the name states, this is a strong ale inspired … Continue reading
For this installment of my Tuesday Tastings reviews, I’m exploring the two new Guinness specialty beers that they sent to me a little while back: their Antwerpen Stout and Rye Pale Ale. These are available through this month, both from their “Brewers Project” series that includes their Blonde American Lager and … Continue reading
Two new specialty beers from Guinness arrived this week: Rye Pale Ale, and Antwerpen Stout. Will be interesting to try these, though I’m more looking forward to the stout.
I had one can of Guinness left over from St. Patrick’s Day: You can see I did much better this time around pouring a Black and Tan. Incidentally, the other beer I’m using is Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic. Not a favorite, but I thought it would be an interesting experiment. … Continue reading
Yes, the title pretty much says it all; the link sent to me points to a page (update: that link is broken, but it’s on the Wayback Machine here) that does indeed relate the experiment of frothing up a nice-looking head on a pint of Guinness with an electric ultrasonic … Continue reading