Cotrell's Old Yankee Ale
Pawcatuck, CT
As the regular readers of Scowl, Nu?
know, I am an investor at the
Speakeasy Brewing
Company
in San Francisco, and one of my favorite beers
of all time is their
Prohibition Ale.
However, after drinking my first Old
Yankee Ale, I don't miss Prohibition
so much. The flavors are so similar that it's
uncanny. Old Yankee is one
of those beers that is hard to classify. It has
the strong hop flavor and
crispness that is akin to an IPA, but has the
slight caramel sweetness of
an amber ale. It's the sort of beer that will
never win an award at a major
brewing festival because it's
unclassifiable, but it really should.
Time to send a bottle of this beer to Eric and
Forest at Speakeasy and find
out what they're both doing
right with this beer. (Avery
Glasser)
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