Archive for the ‘ food ’ Category
Last year, the team and I had chocolate-dipped bacon from a local restaurant at the Taste of Reston. It was quite disappointing. It occurs to me today that is probably because they didn’t get enough of the grease out of the bacon and used that nasty dipping chocolate. Here’s what I am thinking – cook [ READ MORE ]
Amazingly good stuff – best of the lot. Nuanced, smooth but with a bite[ READ MORE ]
A beer brewed with milk sugar – lactose – may not be the smartest idea for someone that is lactose intolerant, but I’m willing to make that sacrifice. Smooth, sweet as expected. Tasty[ READ MORE ]
Hush puppy-croquette dish. Goes great with beer[ READ MORE ]
Tasty Belgian White-style, not heavily spiced. When my fiancée opened ours, I thought we were going to have a redux of the Port City Tidings. This one is not as heavily spiced, not as citrus, without a lot of clove flavor, and to my palette, a bit sweeter. This one would have been a good [ READ MORE ]
Strong, but not at all overpowering bouquet of coconut. The ale is smooth, and the coconut flavor barely noticeable. A bit nutty. Quite good[ READ MORE ]
Alexandria-based Port City ale. Very similar in taste to a Belgian Gran Cru, but a little sweeter. Can definitely taste the honey and cloves[ READ MORE ]
10% ABV. 25° Plato. 110% delicious. Amazingly good. Malty, chocolately rich[ READ MORE ]
Not as creamy a head as their advertising, but still a nice, strong, warming beer for cold wearher[ READ MORE ]
Pumpkin ale for a cold, rainy autumn night[ READ MORE ]
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