Beer stats
Style: Stout
ABV: 6.5%
IBUs: 53
Rating: Good
Previously reviewed from DuClaw
Venom (American pale ale), more Venom
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Sunday, September 15, 2013
Day 645: DuClaw Sweet Baby Jesus
After doing a little blog housekeeping this weekend, I found a bunch of reviews from this summer that went unused thanks to the gazillion reviews that resulted from my trip to Belgium. So today's post is a trip down memory lane to TJ's Independence Party where I had a chance to try DuClaw Brewing Company's Sweet Baby Jesus.
Sweet Baby Jesus is a peanut butter chocolate porter. It poured deep brown, almost black in the glass with a think off-white head. It smelled deeply of peanut butter. The flavor is full of chocolate and peanut butter with some roasted, smoky coffee notes. I also noted a little more hop flavor in this one compared to other chocolate peanut butter beers that I've had recently (Tired Hand's Five out of Five or Spring House's Big Gruesome, for example).
Beer stats
Style: Stout
ABV: 6.5%
IBUs: 53
Rating: Good
Previously reviewed from DuClaw
Venom (American pale ale), more Venom
Beer stats
Style: Stout
ABV: 6.5%
IBUs: 53
Rating: Good
Previously reviewed from DuClaw
Venom (American pale ale), more Venom
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Beer 319: Three Things and a DuClaw Venom
Random thoughts...
1. I want Penn State to win Saturday's showdown against Ohio State so bad I can taste it. I can't remember a time that I've been so emotionally invested in a game. I haven't been able to focus on anything else this week. I'm reading Onward State, watching press conferences, following everyone remotely related to Penn State on twitter...I'm on overload now. I'm going to lose my mind between now and 5:30pm on Saturday.
2. You must go download Weather Puppy right now. It delivers weather conditions with adorable dog photos. For example:
3. Tomorrow is my Mom's birthday. It's weighing heavily on me.
Finally go drink a DuClaw Brewing Company Venom. It's a great beer.
DuClaw is based in Maryland. This is the description of Venom from their website: This American-Style Pale Ale is aggressively hopped giving it a citrusy flavor and aroma. No antidote needed. This beer is dark-golden, medium-bodied and very “hoppy.” It is American-style because American-grown hops are used rather that European.
Me, Gary and the bartender at TJ's all thought this was the nuttiest American pale ale we've ever had. In fact in my notes, I wrote down it's better billed as a nut brown ale or English brown ale.
It poured a red-tinged brown ale with a fluffy white head. It smells distinctly nutty. Something in the aroma reminded me of a little if bretannomyces...just a little funky. That nut aroma translated to the flavor and was very dominant. There was also a mineral chalkiness to the mouthfeel and taste. This is by far that maltiest American pale ale I've ever had. It was delicious and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm just not sure if it was supposed to taste like this.
Cheers!
1. I want Penn State to win Saturday's showdown against Ohio State so bad I can taste it. I can't remember a time that I've been so emotionally invested in a game. I haven't been able to focus on anything else this week. I'm reading Onward State, watching press conferences, following everyone remotely related to Penn State on twitter...I'm on overload now. I'm going to lose my mind between now and 5:30pm on Saturday.
2. You must go download Weather Puppy right now. It delivers weather conditions with adorable dog photos. For example:
3. Tomorrow is my Mom's birthday. It's weighing heavily on me.
Finally go drink a DuClaw Brewing Company Venom. It's a great beer.
DuClaw is based in Maryland. This is the description of Venom from their website: This American-Style Pale Ale is aggressively hopped giving it a citrusy flavor and aroma. No antidote needed. This beer is dark-golden, medium-bodied and very “hoppy.” It is American-style because American-grown hops are used rather that European.
Me, Gary and the bartender at TJ's all thought this was the nuttiest American pale ale we've ever had. In fact in my notes, I wrote down it's better billed as a nut brown ale or English brown ale.
It poured a red-tinged brown ale with a fluffy white head. It smells distinctly nutty. Something in the aroma reminded me of a little if bretannomyces...just a little funky. That nut aroma translated to the flavor and was very dominant. There was also a mineral chalkiness to the mouthfeel and taste. This is by far that maltiest American pale ale I've ever had. It was delicious and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm just not sure if it was supposed to taste like this.
Cheers!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
James Bond, I'm Not
Beer #313 Venom / DuClaw Brewing Company, Bel Air, MD
I know you come here for good information on craft beer. You probably also visit to expand your horizons courtesy of our 'Thing to Think About' each day. Allow me to help serve another purpose: to serve as a cautionary fashion tale. Please heed the following advice:
When you want to buy a new tuxedo shirt, DO NOT give away your old one to Goodwill until you actually buy the next one.
Why is this advice important? Happy to answer that - I need to be at a black tie event tonight, and when I was getting my tuxedo out this morning (no, I don't wear it every day even though I want to), I realized that I gave my old tuxedo shirt away, as I wanted to get a new one before my next formal function. Except, I forgot that fact leading up to tonight's event. CRUD. Thankfully, Brooks Brothers came to the rescue by having a fresh, new 17 1/2 neck 36 sleeve tuxedo shirt waiting for me at their store today. I'll close with this advice as well:
Brooks Brothers. Always, without fail.
Now, before I steam the wrinkles out of this new shirt, allow me to review tonight's beer, Venom, an American Pale Ale from DuClaw Brewing, down in Maryland. You see a hazy amber in the glass, and the aroma is filled with malt, and the taste gives you a nutty, earthy flavor. There's bitterness, but not much in the way of citrus. While this wasn't a bad beer, and in fact I quite liked it, it didn't strike me as a traditional APA. Not bad, just not expected. I'll definitely be on the lookout for some of DuClaw's other offerings.
While a dewclaw refers to a vestigial digit on a dog's paw, DuClaw is more of a play on words related to the popularity of all things crabs near the Chesapeake Bay.
Thing to Think About Today:
I have nothing going in my head to tie this brewery into something witty, so I'll just blast off into the night with a song that I've recentlyillegally downloaded added to the iPod. Beggin', by Madcon. And to all, a good night.
I know you come here for good information on craft beer. You probably also visit to expand your horizons courtesy of our 'Thing to Think About' each day. Allow me to help serve another purpose: to serve as a cautionary fashion tale. Please heed the following advice:
When you want to buy a new tuxedo shirt, DO NOT give away your old one to Goodwill until you actually buy the next one.
Why is this advice important? Happy to answer that - I need to be at a black tie event tonight, and when I was getting my tuxedo out this morning (no, I don't wear it every day even though I want to), I realized that I gave my old tuxedo shirt away, as I wanted to get a new one before my next formal function. Except, I forgot that fact leading up to tonight's event. CRUD. Thankfully, Brooks Brothers came to the rescue by having a fresh, new 17 1/2 neck 36 sleeve tuxedo shirt waiting for me at their store today. I'll close with this advice as well:
Brooks Brothers. Always, without fail.
Now, before I steam the wrinkles out of this new shirt, allow me to review tonight's beer, Venom, an American Pale Ale from DuClaw Brewing, down in Maryland. You see a hazy amber in the glass, and the aroma is filled with malt, and the taste gives you a nutty, earthy flavor. There's bitterness, but not much in the way of citrus. While this wasn't a bad beer, and in fact I quite liked it, it didn't strike me as a traditional APA. Not bad, just not expected. I'll definitely be on the lookout for some of DuClaw's other offerings.
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Thing to Think About Today:
I have nothing going in my head to tie this brewery into something witty, so I'll just blast off into the night with a song that I've recently
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