Category: In Your Glass
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Cheers!: It’s Your Turn to Milk the Dragon
On a recent snowy day, after kneading a loaf of honey wheat bread until my arms felt like rubber bands and setting it aside to rise, I reached into the magic fridge and, thankfully, pulled out a bottle of Bourbon Barrel-aged Dragon’s Milk Stout from the New Holland Brewing Co. Oh, you lucky breadmaker! I […]
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Cheers!: A Funky Pairing Made in Heaven
All day long I had Fred Wesley and his trombone looking at me. I thought it would be a good thing, but it turned out to be a bad thing because the minutes ticked like hours, and the hours ticked like weeks. It started it out when on my way to work I stopped at […]
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Cheers!: Preview of Bier Zot’s Holly King Fest
I was really looking forward to taking a Trip in the Woods, which is the venerable Sierra Nevada’s Narwhal Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels with red and black currants. Currants? Sure. Why not? Malty Narwhal is always a winter treat, but this promised so much more – whatever nuances the bourbon barrel and the […]
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Cheers!: Rejuvenated by Apples
After a recent long, boring freeway drive, I stopped at Econofoods in Sturgeon Bay for a few supplies. They always have some great beverage specials – sometimes on display as soon as you walk into the store. That was the case on this day, which happened to be the weekend before Thanksgiving. Many malty […]
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Cheers!: All Hail Lupulin Maximus!
It’s the fourth night in a row of a full day of work followed by a full night of work. One of those nights included election night. I am really, really thirsty for something good. I stick my hand into the magic fridge and pull out an amber. Sorry, amber doesn’t have the right stuff […]
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Cheers! Hinterland Comes of Age
Talk about a beautiful coming of age story! Hinterland Brewery of Green Bay celebrates its 21st birthday with 21 Anniversary Ale, a delicious “brewer’s blend of bourbon barrel-aged beers.” This is one of the brewery’s Out of the Woods Series presented in pint bottles. The brewery website reveals this as two bourbon barrel-aged beers blended […]
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Brandy: Badger State in a Bottle
You’d be hard-pressed to find a Door County liquor cabinet or hunting cabin that doesn’t contain a bottle of brandy. As the primary ingredient in our unofficial state cocktail, the old-fashioned, brandy is everywhere. In fact, one third of Korbel brandy, produced in California, is exported to Wisconsin. In the liquor business, Wisconsin, Minnesota and […]
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Cheers!: A Happy Danish-Belgian Berliner Weisse
This beer has been calling to me from the shelf for weeks now, and finally I could no longer refuse its siren song. Hallo Ich Bin Berliner Weisse is a cheery cherry offering from the always offbeat Danish brewer Mikkeller. This particular German beer was actually brewed for Mikkeller by the Belgian De Broef […]
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Cheers!: Czeched Out on Italian PBR and Fatal Contamination
We interrupt the regularly scheduled beer column for this important announcement: The 5th generation owner of a venerable Pennsylvania brewery recently came out with an endorsement for a presidential candidate when that candidate stopped by for a brewery tour. Dear brewers: Please keep your politics to yourselves. Once you reveal your political bent, whatever it […]
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Yikes! (That’s not the first word I wrote to start this, but my real response was a less genteel phrase that is generally not used to start a newspaper story.) My tongue and the entire roof of my mouth and my lips are all on fire after taking a sip of Flying Dog’s Carolina Reaper […]
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Unable to decide on what sort of beer I was in the mood for, I found myself wandering around the massive cider aisle, marveling at the assortment of ciders and perries, with a wild assortment of flavors and pairings. Two stood out to me because they were not just dry ciders and both are […]
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Cheers!: A Sourpuss and Coffee Spree
It turned out to be the week of big beers. I stopped at Bier Zot and asked head Bier Zottist Ryan Castelaz to surprise me. He came back with Skully Barrel No. 34 (aka Spiced Pear Sour 2015) from Paradox Beer Co. of Divide Colo. Mission accomplished, Ryan, because this was a surprising beer from […]
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It was impossible to not buy a sixer of Wasatch Brewery’s Black O’Lantern Pumpkin Stout when I saw it staring out at me from among a display of autumnal brews. The leering, glowing black jack o’ lantern on the label is marketing genius. I want a t-shirt! The label calls out to shoppers whose eyes […]
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Wine:30 – Malolactic Fermentation
Malolactic fermentation or malolactic conversion in winemaking is the process in which malic acid is transformed into lactic acid. This is a standard process for most red wines and is common for some white wines such as Chardonnay. It is often a secondary fermentation which happens shortly after the end of the primary fermentation, […]
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Cheers!: A Beautiful No-Brainer
Standing in front of the wall of beer at my local recently, I didn’t have anything in mind other than the idea of really kicking back and enjoying a beer. So, which exotic brew will it be today? My eyes wander from the Belgians to the Danes to the Dutch to the English to the […]
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I have a great deal of love and admiration for the guys who pioneered the craft beer movement. It was a national movement that progressed regionally. Depending on where you lived in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, you most likely had to drive to a larger community to find a craft […]
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Door County Brewing Co. Jumps Through Final Governmental Hoop for New Taproom
At its Sept. 15 meeting, the Door County Resource Planning Committee gave its approval for a conditional use permit to Door County Brewing Co., allowing the brewery to move from its current location at the corner of Park Road and County F in Baileys Harbor to the center of the town’s commercial district on Hwy. […]
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Lo Artisan Distillery Defaults on Door County Revolving Loan
The owners of Lo Artisan Distillery, makers of a traditional high-proof Hmong rice liquor, at 1607 Stevenson Pier Road in Brussels, failed to appear at a Sept. 6 court hearing. The County of Door was awarded a default judgment of $33,452.78 plus interest from April 20, 2016. Owners Po Lo and Charlotte Vang owed that […]
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Narrated Bus Tour of Door County’s Historical Taverns is Sept. 24
Back by popular demand, the Door County Historical Society invites people to “There’s a Tavern in the Town,” a narrated bus tour of Door County’s Historical Taverns on Sept. 24. Each rural crossroads had three things in common: a church, a school and a tavern. Within a stone’s throw, you could get education, salvation and…damnation! […]
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Door County Brewing Co. Expands Distribution to Illinois
Door County Brewing Co. expanded distribution to Illinois on Sept. 1, after signing distribution agreements with Kloss Distributing of Gurnee, Ill. and Town & Country Distributors of Itasca, Ill. Door County Brewing Co. began its distribution in Wisconsin in 2013, expanding in 2015 to Minnesota and now to Illinois. “We appreciate Door County Brewing Co.’s […]