I saw this linked in a couple places now. The site is Dipdive.com. I have no idea where it came from or who made it, but it’s pretty amazing. Now that Dennis Kucinich has dropped out of the race for president, I have been supporting Barack Obama for president. He brings something new to the table that I have yet to see any other candidate bring. It’s a young freshness that Hillary Clinton just doesn’t offer. We don’t need another legacy president. We need someone new, something different. Hillary is very polarizing. Obama is a uniter and a true leader. We need Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.
Archive for February 6th, 2008
Tonight I decided to try Sam Adams Double Bock. This beer is fantastic, probably one of the best beers from Sam Adams. Anyway, it pours a nice copper color with a nice thin white head and ample carbonation. It smells of caramel malts and a bit nutty. It tastes of some nuttiness, some caramel malts, a very slight hint of chocolate, and some malty sweetness. All that is balanced nicely by the Bavarian hops. The beer is perfectly balanced and very tasty. It’s full bodied and even though it’s 8.8% ABV, it’s not noticeable and the beer is extremely drinkable. This is one excellent beer from Sam Adams. I’m glad I tried it.
According to Ian Donnis at The Phoenix’s Not for Nothing blog, Narragansett Beer hopes to move their brewing operations back to Rhode Island later this year if their sales pick up during the first part of the year (being about a month in already, I wonder how they’re doing).
If sales of Narragansett Beer get off to a strong start in the first quarter of 2008, the brewing operation of the rejuvenated Rhode Island icon could return to the Ocean State in the final half of this year, says company president Mark Hellendrung.
I’m probably overly optimistic about it,” he says, hedging his bets a bit, although the budding beer baron can barely contain his enthusiasm in envisioning a local brewery operation, complete with a beer garden, where people could visit and sample the beer.
If this dream comes to fruition, it will be in Providence — probably on the West Side. “It’s kind of where our heartbeat is today,” Hellendrung says.
This would be HUGE for Providence and the state of Rhode Island. I am not sure where they’d move on the West Side. My guess would be one of the mill buildings (or perhaps they’ll take over the former Shaw’s location in Eagle Square). Regardless of where it is, it will be a great thing for the city. I would love it if they opened up a brewpub where they served pub food and had some experimental beer. I would love to see them expand their beer offerings. They already made it to the Top 25 American Beers in Beer Advocate magazine with their Lager, and their Bock is even better (I have yet to, and probably will never, try their Light beer). I’ve heard of people having a Narragansett Porter on tap at various places, but I’ve never seen it. That would probably be another good one.
Anyway, I am excited about this. It would make me one very happy person to see more beer being made in RI and to see it in Providence.
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