Beer of the Week! 03/07/23
Wheatland Spring Depart Estate Lager
Regularly $20.99 / Now on Sale for $18.96
Estate Grown Wheat Lager
We’re happy to offer another cool lager from Wheatland Spring Farm and Brewery. Wheatland Spring is way up north in Waterford, VA with a strong focus on lagers and farmhouse ales. Now, we dig lagers and would never turn away a decent one, but we never thought we’d find a brewery that would get us excited about them, but Wheatland Spring is starting to do just that.
Wheatland Spring makes their Depart Estate Lager out of malted barley, wheat, and the wheat/rye hybrid, triticale — all of them grown on their farm. It sounds like the type of malt bill that would usually go into a wheat ale, but, here, Wheatland Spring has made a lager.
With its malt bill, the Depart offers us a rare opportunity to focus in on how lagers differ from ales. This wheat lager presents the same core taste of a wheat ale in a cleaner, lighter version. The hops are mild but persistent throughout the sip, building as you go though the glass, merging with the tang coming from the wheat and the triticale.
Direct from their grain to your glass; a creative, non-standard lager; fun, interesting, and tasty — what’s not to like about this beer? (We guess you could want a flashier package, but we kind of dig the simple design. It’s no-nonsense, which is classy.)
Bonus Beer of the Week (‘Cause “two” rhymes with “brew.” (What? You need a better reason?) )
Une Année Quad
Regularly $14.99 / Now on Sale for $13.96
Abbey Quadrupel Style Ale
Une Année Brewery is based in the Chicago suburbs along with its sister brewery, Hubbard’s Cave. Remember them? We recently featured their Tripel as a Beer of the Week. Well, we liked the Tripel so much we decided to give their Quadrupel a try, and we have not been disappointed!
The Une Année Quad is surprisingly vibrant with bacon and brown sugar teasing you on the nose before you dive in. Once in the glass, you’re favored with a pleasingly deep plum fruitiness. Medium-bodied, Une Année’s Quad is much richer than others of the style. It turns out, we’re quite fine with a Quadrupel that has a little more meat on its bones, as it were.
We know it’s going to start warming up soon, and people may be tempted to move away from the heavier beers. However, try this gem next to richer meals like barbeque or General Tso’s Chicken. Anyway, you know what they say about Quadrupels … “Third time’s the charm, but forth time’s the bomb!”
(Okay, we just made that up. No one says that … but they should!)
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