Sampler Sessions: Twitter Taste Live: Dogfish Head Exotics
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03/07/2009, 4:15 PM
Filed under: Dogfish Head, Sampler Sessions | Tags: Alcohol by volume, beer, Dogfish Head Brewery, Drink, Food, Recreation, Twitter, Website
Filed under: Dogfish Head, Sampler Sessions | Tags: Alcohol by volume, beer, Dogfish Head Brewery, Drink, Food, Recreation, Twitter, Website
pourn: Twitter Taste Live Dogfish Head
I’m participating in Twitter taste Live on Twitter tonight (Eastern Standard times listed below). For more info on what that means, please visit http://www.twittertastelive.com/events/twitter-taste-live-beer-exotic
and please consider joining us. It’s free, aside from getting the beers, and a hell of a lot of fun.
The beers are estimated using my formula to have a cumulative total calories of 2137.5 for the single consumer who finishes each of them. Wish me luck.
Interestingly, the beers are listed with FAR lower calories than my estimates on the DFH web sites, which I include for comparison.
Red & White – 8:05 pm (oak aged wit, snifter) http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occassional-rarities/red-white.htm
25.4 fl oz * 10% ABV = 254 / 60 = 4.23 beers * 150C = 634.5 C estimated
Fort – 8:30 pm (fruit beer, snifter) http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occassional-rarities/fort.htm
25.4 fl oz * 18% ABV = 457.2 / 60 = 7.62 beers * 150C = 1143 C estimated
Palo Santo Marron – 8:50 pm (wood aged brown ale, pint) http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/year-round-brews/palo-santo-marron.htm
12 fl oz * 12% ABV = 144 / 60 = 2.4 beers * 150C = 360 C estimated
- @dogfishbeer I don’t want it to be like that, I love your brews, can’t you tell me how it affects my weight? After my loss, cmon #ttl
- @semperfifi so glad to hear it. #ttl
- @BahHumBrew flyingdog rocks esp imperial styles #ttl
- @dogfishbeer let’s talk. I don’t want to disrespect, I just want the truth. I love your beer, love my sense back. Calories matter!!!!!! #ttl
- @semperfifi I love the platform. #ttl
- @hopwild with great beer, who needs bread?
not me. #ttl
- @BahHumBrew it’s an amazing way to share, let’s do it more often! #ttl
- @TheBeerWench yeah, you’re impervious to calories, but for the rest of us, we need to consider a day’s worth in a sitting. #ttl
- @csjo #ttl is the greatest search term that ever existed. We try beer, and wine, and we tweet on it. Join us!
- @snax should never stop you, should just make you aware. I’m consuming about 2500 calories today, most of it (amazing) beer. #ttl
- RT @beertweeter: @dogfishbeer @zymoid @thebeerwench the best! great peeps, great brews! I’m sticking around #ttl
- @beercommdood exactly. I need some detail on why the Calories are reported so low. #ttl
- @beertweeter from tonight, Fort, all time? world wide stout #ttl
- RT @hopwild: thanks @dogfishbeer and @zymoid for joining us! thx @thebeerwench for hosting! #ttl
- @beercommdood she was interesting for sure! #ttl
- @Sandorsnow thanks! #ttl
- @semperfifi thanks! #ttl
- @dogfishbeer can you give me an @ for your lab dude? I have some questions. #ttl
- plus, it would take an elephant gun to kill you buzz, just sayin. #ttl
- hey, I have to consider the issue, or else I’m obese again. #ttl
- @dogfishbeer I appreciate that you are posting calories, but how do you come to your numbers? What’s the serving size? No disrespect. #ttl
- @lemasney whoa, 2000 C. sorry. #ttl
- @beertweeter I did — for single drinkers, it’s over 20000 calories, IMO. @dogfishbeer differs. http://beercritic.wordpress… #ttl
- wondering how to collect my tasting notes effectively for beercritic. #ttl
- RT @hopwild: dont forge to follow your fellow ttl-ers #ttl
- @kallardnyc re: the video feed? #ttl
- @Sandorsnow still finishing bottle one, but I’m with you all the way #ttl
- RT @Lotay: “Crash Into Me” – Dave Matthews Band ♫ http://blip.fm/~2r99e
- @beercommdood interesting, for sure. #ttl
- @zymoid from you, that’s the ultimate compliment. You are a poet in physical action, and we all appreciated it here tonight. #ttl
- @Sandorsnow no, I was just leaving half of my bottle full. #ttl
- @JugShop Beeeeelllllllccchch. #ttl
- enjoyed @dogfishbeer with you all tonight. Thanks! #ttl
- @TheAleuminati bye! #ttl
- @ErikBoles wish I was, dude. #ttl
- I’m so surprised by the flavors of the familiar PSM tonight — so much a coffee stout tonight, never before. #ttl
- @TheAleuminati oh yeah. #ttl
- @ErikBoles they are the reason I took to twitter for real interaction TTL rocks #ttl
- @beercommdood that’s a great summary #ttl
- RT @ErikBoles: @DFH‘s is like sex with a 40 year old woman when you are 21: it teaches you things you didn’t even know existed #ttl
- @Gservo cool, crazy, and chaotic, but fun, as usual. #ttl
- @BahHumBrew the warmth is essential, the aroma moves from subtlety to a command of your olfacatory #ttl
- @TheAleuminati so say we all! #ttl
- The flavors as it calms are like espresso. So very nice. #ttl
- @Gservo coming after we shut down — plenty of pourn, too! #ttl
- @TheAleuminati Hi right back! #ttl
- “the ones that count are here” That’s nice. #ttl
- @ErikBoles well done re: summary. #ttl
- @JugShop yeah, how about that. :/ #ttl
- has everyone seen the palo santo marron brewing video? Youtube it. @dogfishbeer #ttl
- @zymoid it’s such a beautiful layered series of flavors. Not nearly as complex as the others, but like eating a handful of roasted malt #ttl
- starts tart, and dark, middle is continuous toast, and finish is long ad burnt. The wood is omnipresent. #ttl
- Taste is chocolate, cocoa, coffee, roasted malt, deep and dark burnt flavor. little sweetness present, this is all about malt. #ttl
- SPM is deep, woodsy aroma, sweet, and black as midnight in the woods. I’ve had it several times, but always enjoyable to anticipate. #ttl
- @panache yes! #ttl
- @Sandorsnow no, why do you ask? #ttl
- @zymoid most definitely. You have quite a product here. #ttl
- So when is Santo Palo Marron? #ttl
- @ErikBoles exactly. #ttl
- see you, @beerphilosopher ! #ttl
- @AngelosTzelepis sorry if it makes you laugh. #ttl
- Dogfish head is brewing beers that make you rethink the very state of beer as an idea. They ask you to set aside your beer definition. #ttl
- I feel like the body in the glass is like a mirror, a look at hope for the future. It’s like a celebration in a glass, to share #ttl
- RT @ErikBoles: RT @beerphilosopher: Friends don’t let friends drink Fort and Tweet … … #ttl NICE
- yeah hops seem secondary. this is about candy. #ttl
- The taste reminds me of stone ground wheat in texture, grape soda in aroma, and medicine in finish. The best medicine ever. #ttl
- definitely brandy, wheat, raspberry, and honey. Delicious. Agitation brings a strong aroma of whiskey, oak, and leaf mold. #ttl
- I doubt highly anyone will be able to taste the Palo Santo Marron. #ttl
- Surprisingly well balanced. Not sweet at first, sweetness emerges, nice burn throughout, and long wonderful finish. #ttl
- taste is deep, layered with flavors: raisin, cherry, plum, raspberry, citrus, bitterness, burns on the way down. So nice. #ttl
- No head at all, but the body is deep amber, just a touch of haze, and visually active in carbonation. #ttl
- Wow, Fort’s aroma is wonderful, sweet, and all about raspberries. Some cherry effects, grape soda, and candy all the way. #ttl
- @zymoid moving on to Fort then. Thanks! #ttl
- @beertweeter thanks! #ttl
- so are we moving on to Fort? #ttl
- 3-7-2009 7-53-43 PM.jpg [pic] http://ff.im/1oRc9
- @dogfishbeer @zymoid thanks for the great work that you do! #ttl
- @TheBeerWench we can make that happen next time. #ttl
- @dogfishbeer you make fantastic brews. Cheers! #ttl
- @beercommdood I don’t think so, it could just be my palate tonight. It’s def not off, but wondered. #ttl
- 8:20 what’s next up? Fort, I’m hoping. #ttl
- @kallardnyc Reign In Red & White #ttl
- I saw that trend post coming. Let’s rock it, tweeps. #ttl
- R&W there is definitely a bit of aluminum peeking through somehow. Delicious, not off putting, but surprising. @zymoid, ideas? #ttl
- Thanks, all. I think #TTL is the best way to share beers with friends. #ttl
- carbonation is not visually evident, but very evident in the palate. Like an ocean. The body is a summer sunset, with rain in the morn. #ttl
- mine is warming up nicely, and the aroma is reaching out into the room. #ttl
- sencondary tastes are about citrus and rind. The finish for me is lengthening. #ttl
- my sediment hasn’t made it into the glass yet, and it’s surprisingly clear. I must have stored it well. #ttl
- not sweet at all, so much about the electric palate. very little bitterness, but finish is medium and very much about malt. #ttl
- @rgrace99 yep, just paused to record the video for the pour. Uploads later! #ttl
- first taste is amazing, very round in the mouth, spritzy and slightly metallic. electric palate, pins in the mouth. wonderful. #ttl
- red and white is Belgian aromatics, clear, red, and white head. Very nice to look at and brilliant. #ttl
- @beerphilosopher hey Shawn! Great to see you here! #ttl
- wow, that kind of blows. #ttl
- opened the fort since it was listed first in the listing. #ttl
- @dogfishbeer Fort up first #ttl
- @biergirl no disagreement.
- now following @zymoid #ttl
- @kyleroth haven’t done as much pairing as tasting, but encouraged. #ttl
- Brooklyn Local 2 rocks! #ttl
- beers out. #ttl
- @TheBeerWench you’re doing great. #ttl
- @TheBeerWench wonder what #ttl trends will do tonight, and how that will affect ustream. Cool! stream looks good.
- @binendswine happy birthday! #ttl
- @MattsAquarium great, tasty, nice #beer like @dogfishbeer or @stronebrewingco
- @TheBeerWench so happy to hear you’re going ahead with it. #ustream rocks. #ttl
- RT @Bsimi: @rogersmithhotel will officially have @stfler22 @bsimi @chefdeRSH in on #ttl @dogfishbeer tonight. Sweet. #ttl
- doing some homework while waiting patiently for 8 pm to come.
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TTL Transatlantic Stouts, as it happened
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02/22/2009, 1:47 AM
Filed under: Current selections | Tags: beer, black, caramel, chocolate, coffee, crisp, dark, deep, delicious, Facebook, hoppy, opaque, resin, roasted, Samuel Smith Brewery, stout, strong, TweetDeck, Twitter, United Kingdom, United States
Filed under: Current selections | Tags: beer, black, caramel, chocolate, coffee, crisp, dark, deep, delicious, Facebook, hoppy, opaque, resin, roasted, Samuel Smith Brewery, stout, strong, TweetDeck, Twitter, United Kingdom, United States
http://twittertastelive.com/events/twitter-taste-live-beer-stouts says:
Tasting Times (EST USA):
Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout- 6:10
Rogue Shakespeare Stout- 6:30
Rogue Chocolate Stout- 6:50
Samuel Smith Imperial Stout- 7:10
7:30 – ? @reluct_scooper says he has a few UK Stouts that he will open and tweet about. Discussion on Sam Smith & Rogue continues.
5:53: I’ve got my water nearby, tweetdeck chirping away, and I’ve already done group and individual bottle shots. This is going to be cool.
6:21: Just got some compliments on my notes. This is fun.
7:08 this is tough to do. Lots of beer!
8:39 What an experience. Here’s the trail:
- @reluct_scooper those two are very fine examples, but many more exist. #ttl
- @NormskiBrewer nice to have you! #ttl
- http://twitpic.com/1mf4n is a little compilation pic of tonight’s offerings. Cheers.
- @beerbabe just finished a WWS, and enjoyed it immensely. It defines the words ‘sip’ and ‘pleasure’. #ttl
- @beerbabe I <3 Santo Palo Marron. I’ve gotten into Facebook fights over the amazingness of this brew. #ttl
- @beerbabe the flavor really emerges with the mellowing warmth. #ttl
- @beertweeter I am an amateur beer chef. hehehe. #ttl
- having very room temp Shakespeare, and it’s still standing up nicely. Nice hop finish, a bit mellower, of course, but flavor is there. #ttl
- @beertweeter good or bad? I finished my impy. #ttl
- biab. You people absolutely rock. #ttl
- @beertweeter you inspired me. #ttl
- @Normskibrewer My pleasure. #ttl
- @tastelive blushes and cheers. Video forthcoming, but a slower process. #ttl
- @beerbabe Thanks! It’s my latest little way of getting into my work. #ttl
- Photos from tonight’s tasting: http://tinyurl.com/bcxrph #ttl
- @Ekajtactless love that bastard. #ttl
- #3 trend on all of twitter. That really is kind of something on a Saturday evening, no? #ttl
- Wow. we cracked the code. Care deeply about something and talk about it. For hours! Lets get advertisements going. #ttl
- @Gservo had the Creme Brulee on tap once. That was nice. #ttl
- @Normskibrewer I like the way you drink… er think. #ttl
- @beertweeter Sessions are the new imperial styles. #ttl
- @reluct_scooper yeah I’d like to hear the also rans! #ttl
- @Normskibrewer If you want bucketlist brews, I’d suggest Mikkeller Black, Beer Geek breakfast, Great Divide Yeti, Dogfish Head 120, etc #ttl
- @Normskibrewer I don’t think any of these were to-die-for brews, but all good. #ttl
- @beerbabe I think these all stood up well. We can all agree that a macro brown ale would have trouble in the list. #ttl
- @Normskibrewer Sam Smith Imperial 17/20 Oatmeal 18/20 Rogue Chocolate 16/20 Shakespeare 18/20 #ttl
- @beerbabe it’s going to be a long night. But delicious. Cheers! #ttl
- going to follow each of you soon. #ttl
- @beertweeter I love that we live in a time that we can share this experience in this way. I’m a technologist first, and this is sublime #ttl
- @beerbabe it was my absolute pleasure, I can assure you. I’ve wanted to taste beers with you a long time now. #ttl
- does anyone esle have unfinished bombers sitting before them? #ttl
- This has been a lot of fun, friends! I’m looking forward to the next one as well. #ttl
- Being that Philly Beer week is approaching I think ale on cask will be an easy fix come March. Just saying. #ttl
- @beertweeter I think we all might benefit. They do casks at the Hulmeville Inn from time to time, in PA. #ttl
- I once had Sculpin from a Firkin in Philadelphia at a very special event. #ttl
- @beertweeter will do. I’m in NJ. You? #ttl
- @beertweeter there’s a place near me that has no trouble kicking casks in a few days — they do great advertising, beer lists, etc. #ttl
- @beertweeter trending #10 – damn, who’s at #9? #ttl
- @beertweeter The Mikkeller (Imperial stout) I mentioned earlier comes out at about 18% ABV. #ttl
- @hopwild I have to say I usually taste at cellar or warmer. I enjoy fuller flavors, genuinely. Mine aren’t cold at all, but delicious. #ttl
- @beerbabe sadly, no. #ttl
- @Normskibrewer Sam Smith Imp Stout. #ttl
- @hoppy_mike Raison seems a lot more intense than this, though. This is smoother, mellow, to me. #ttl
- To Bill, a deserving brew for a deserving appreciative. #ttl
- palate starts washy, foamy, middles to a linen and silk luxury, followed by a raisinous dark roasted finish that stays for a bit. Nice. #ttl
- Agitation does wonders for the visuals and for the aroma. The flavor retains its impact thoughout. #ttl
- Taste goes right to raisin, plum, oats, and coffee. So very smooth. some carbo in the finish, but not distracting. #ttl
- An appropriate stout for the toast: thick viscosity, thinner beautiful tan head, intricate lacing. Bill might have loved it. #ttl
- @hopwild to Bill! #ttl
- @reluct_scooper Cheers! #ttl
- @beertweeter me am. I mean I am. Wow. Long night. #ttl
- Maybe instead of the 25 random things craze on facebook, we could start a 10 beers for life list. Just a thought. #ttl
- pausing to video and snapshot the pour and body. biab. #ttl
- Mikkeller 黑 is mine, hands down. Lots of Number 2s though. http://tinyurl.com/akgg4q #ttl
- @beerbabe how’s the pairing? #ttl
- @beerbabe Agreed and wholeheartedly. #ttl
- @beerbabe I would go as far as to say that generalizing to gender is a fruitless endeavor. Especially when it comes to beer. #ttl
- Comparatively, I’d say this is more intense than the Sam Smith, but less than the Shakespeare. Hops are somewhat less here, no? #ttl
- @beertweeter and oh, how I’ve tried to turn her on to great beer. #ttl
- @beertweeter my wife. #ttl
- Starts carbona crisp, dry, and middles to blunt malty roasted notes. Finish is slightly bitter. Dark chocolate throughout. Delicious. #ttl
- roasted malt definitely comes through in the aroma as chocolate. Fully opaque body with foamy tan head. lacing is nice already. Milky. #ttl
- just paused to take some video of the pour and some body shots. Pourn. hehe. Ahem. Back now. #ttl
- oh man. sit this pint aside. take a drink of water. deep breath. #ttl
- @beerbabe a good problem to have. #ttl
- For Rogue, DFH, and Stone, having new offerings allows for diversity and experimentation that led to their original success. Good on em #ttl
- @beerbabe And as a result, you get Chipotle ale. I was less impressed with Soba ale. Don’t get me started on Dogfish Head. #ttl
- @beerbabe Babe Ruth was a leader in strikeouts as well as hits (i think), I think Rogue’s experimental nature allows for greatness. #ttl
- @beertweeter +10 for Lovibond reference. #ttl
- @beerbabe Rogue is really one of the most reliable brewers for hopheads no matter the style. Their Yellow Snow IPA, is world class IMO. #ttl
- No light escapes the body, no taste bud avoids the hop and silky coating. The back and roof my mouth are tingling. Well crafted. #ttl
- I think it’s brave of Sam Smith to endcap these brews from Rogue in our tasting. It says something for the fortitude of their brews. #ttl
- @beertweeter WD-80 #ttl
- Flavor is far more hoppy, middles out to citrus and mint for me, finish is very bitter and lasting. I absolutely love Rogue brews. #ttl
- this is wholly opaque, black, no such ruby notes as in the SS. Fluffy tan head goes to thin with intricate lace. Beautiful. #ttl
- @hopwild mine deflated too, but lace is nice. #ttl
- @beerbabe i <3 sediment. Lees, extra yeast, whatever, let me at it. #ttl
- @beertweeter lol Radiohead here. #ttl
- <sips water> #ttl
- @hopwild as we approach 25% ABV in some experimental Dogfish head brews, I think we’ll see it more and more. One can hope. #ttl
- @hopwild I find that 5% and under forego the ABV listing. #ttl
- @reluct_scooper the carbo left mine pretty quickly and let the flavor come through. I started at cellar temp, too. #ttl
- Belgian lacing is crisp, intricate, and picture perfect. Nice way to finish. #ttl
- starts crisp, mellows to soy and dark notes quickly, longer oat based finish. A delicious session brew. #ttl
- I have a little 5 LED flashlight to get a good impression of the deeper color in more opaque brews. This one lights right up! #ttl
- I love stouts with some sediment or bottle conditioning. This one is clean as a whistle, but I’ll not hold it against ol’ Sam. #ttl
- @binendswine bottoms up while it’s 5% ABV! #ttl
- @binendswine blushing and cheers! #ttl
- jealous of those with food pairing. #ttl
- The color is one of the nicest features, I think — that ruby tinge is one of my favorite in the beer spectrum. #ttl
- As the carbonation departs and it warms, the flavors start to emerge more. Raisin, plum, soy. #ttl
- roasted malt is definitely coming through — oats help it. more choc than coffee for me. #ttl
- Mine is smooth, a bit like tea. Some chocolate, as beerbabe notes. I have a cold, sigh. #ttl
- @hopwild may be a bit shelved. Age doesn’t work in all brews, or could be a bad producer recipe. #ttl
- Taking shots and video as we go, will go up on http://beercritic.wordpress… later. #ttl
- Just a bit translucent. The ruby undertones are beautiful and the tan head is fluffy with nice lacing. #ttl
- Lots of grain and earthiness in the aroma. Nice. #ttl
- it says 6 p.m. EST here. #ttl
- I have four glasses setup, an english pint for the oatmeal, a shaker for the shakespeare, 2 snifters for the rest. All room temp, clean #ttl
- @binendswine Stouts, depending on substyle can be poured into shakers, English Pints (e.g. oatmeal), and Snifters (e.g. imperial) #ttl
Beercritic asks: Attending Twitter Live Tasting: Stouts?
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02/21/2009, 9:26 PM
Filed under: Beercritic asks..., Imperial Stout (snifter), Rogue, Samuel Smith, Stout (English pint), Sweet stout (English pint) | Tags: Alcohol by volume, beer, Beer rating, Brewery, Drink, Food, stout, Twitter
Filed under: Beercritic asks..., Imperial Stout (snifter), Rogue, Samuel Smith, Stout (English pint), Sweet stout (English pint) | Tags: Alcohol by volume, beer, Beer rating, Brewery, Drink, Food, stout, Twitter
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Tonight at 6 p.m., EST, I’ll be participating (as twitter username lemasney) in an online tasting event, part of Twitter Tasting Live, more commonly known on
Twitter as #TTL, where people tweet tasting notes all the time, and hash TTL as a way of updating those who are interested.
From time to time, specific beers are chosen for group review, like a book club, and we all get together on a Saturday night, virtually, to participate.
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Tonight, we’ll be tasting two British Stouts, and two American Stouts. They each have garnered 98s on RateBeer.com which is no easy task. Rogue‘s Chocolate Stout and their Shakespeare Stout, as well as Samuel Smith‘s Oatmeal Stout and their Imperial Stout. I’ve had all of these before, but am looking forward to having them all again. This will be my first time participating in a group TTL event, but not their first event — I missed that one, and how sad I was.
For more info, visit: http://www.twittertastelive.com/events/twitter-taste-live-beer-stouts
Also, I’ve done some math on what I can expect to consume in calories this evening as a single taster who does not intend to throw any of this great beer away:
Brewery and brew RateBeer ABV Price FlOz Calories price per fl oz Rogue Chocolate Stout 98. 6.30% $5.99 22 347 $0.27 Rogue Shakespeare Stout 98. 6.00% $5.99 22 330 $0.27 Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout 98. 7.00% $3.29 18.7 327 $0.18 Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout 98. 5.00% $3.09 18.7 234 $0.17 1,238 Total Calories
