ionia ales

11.2oz 6.6% – Light straw color, decent head with very nice lacing.
Minimal floral hop notes.  The bubbles are SMALL!  Very clean flavor/fermentation.  More pils malt then fruity spicy flavors like westmalle tripel.
My first thoughs (months ago) were that this beer was one of the best and maybe a bit understated, – a great session beer [...]

12oz Bottle, Spent a year in the fridge, – I’ve been holding on to this for a while, and now it’s time!
Tettnang, Simcoe and Cascade are the hops, I wish I knew if it was a blend of the three used throughout, or if Tettnang ended up being the one used most, and listed first…
This [...]

The label says trappist ale, but I thought the only trappist ales were: chimay, westmalle, rochefort, westveleteren and Achel.  This bottle, (the camera is at the brewery, damnit!)  doesn’t have the trappist logo on it either. hmm.
Medium carbonation, not as hard to pour as a Duvel, easier than a westmalle.
The color is a orange-straw, more [...]

Ok. My love of the sour reds and browns and most beers with wacky character is becoming more and more obvious. – this is one of the original or traditional brews.

I especially love springing these beers on friends who usually show up to parties with a 6er of macro-muck. some oud gueze followed. – from [...]

I think I will try a few of the other leine’s.  This was fine. Not much that I remember other than a clean lager,  a little malty notes, and also a touch watery.
it was fun though.

This is MY kind of beer. A barrel aged golden ale + some funk.
Hints at duvel, but extra complexities leap from the glass from the oak aging and the esters from wild yeasts and possibly Lactic Acid Bacteria (and)
There’s tropical aromas like pineapple, a pleasent spicy yeast aroma, not the high [...]