staring at the pie, would have like to have grabbed some the second time around. Very limited when it was released.
Logic would seem to say that you could find one here https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24745/ but the only one listed was retired in 2017.
I think I had one in the distant past, but have no idea of brewery. Might have to try brewing one next summer.
Due to their nature, tough to plan for a forager to find enough that are ripe to be available for a scheduled brew day. Although I suppose freezing them wouldn't be too much of a concern, since texture wouldn't matter so much. I'd love to try a beer made with native persimmons. They have as much of a history in early American brewing as pumpkins, but due to the foraged nature, deforestation, and how fine a line between delicious and inedible is, I doubt there will ever be a commercially available.
In Australia, Carlton & United Breweries did a beer called Fosters Special in the mid-90s. It was in a green bottle, and, shockingly, it was maybe 6%, an unheard-of ABV in Australia in those days, but it had a smoothness that belied those numbers. It was around for maybe a year or two and then vanished into the ether. I'd love to try it again to see if it stands up to my memory. Cheers!
Jackie O's still does Paw Paw wheat beer, released a month or two ago. Upland still does the paw paw sour, last time I looked, the bottles were on sale at the location across the river from Louisville.
Hmm...back then, I drank that. I remember it being 2.5% or 3.5% and was called Special Bitter. Now, there's 2 entries for the green can. Special Bitter and Premium Ale. 5%abv and 5.5%abv respectively. It was much gooder as a session beer.
I’ll look for that one. I’m normally attuned to their stouts and barleywines. It very well might be the one I tried in the past. Thanks.
I checked my text files and the beer was a saison on draft by Thirsty Dog. My notes indicate I thought it was good. I have never seen it bottled or canned. I’ll contact them to see if they have it in the schedule for next year.
I admit the photo of the 5% version in the BA database does look similar to the beer I'm thinking of, but both beers on BA are still in production, whereas it's pushing 30 years since the beer I'm thinking of was around. Unless, of course, production was continued overseas, just like with the actual Fosters Lager beer in the blue cans, which are as rare as hen's teeth in Oz. Cheers!
I checked some earlier reviews(early 2000s)of the Special Bitter and some mention 2.8% abv and some mention 3.5% abv. All I know for sure was back then, it was quite drinkable to me. The Premium Ale, not so much.
My favorite beer of all time was Dopple Spaten Optimator. The name means double spade and it had 2 spades on the label. I used to get it from my local beer distributor as a German import back in the late 1970’s and then it just disappeared. Spaten still makes something called Spaten Optimator, but it’s not the same beer. It was a delicious dark beer,that was on the sweet side.
Whichever of the Stone Anniversary Ales was the English DIPA. I think I rated it pretty low, but could do with a beer like that again.
Harvest is back in the Boston area this year, and as delicious as I remember. 6-pack cans this time around.
