Eight 8 Beers to Taste, Quite a Night

Doug Greener, the Beer Maven

The usual crew of tasters met at the beer maven's home. He had eight 8 beers for us to taste. That's more than our usual supply. I'll tell you about a few of them.

We started three from BEERBAZAAR. Mordechai, Ester and Persian Haze. They all had fruity aromas, no surprise since all are IPA's but when drinking them, they were different. Mordechai's my favorite, Ester I didn't like, and Persian Haze in between.

Herzl makes a wonderful tart fruity beer, more like a tart cocktail. I really liked it. 

Shevet's Duke is an oatmeal stout that tastes better than it smells, which is rare. Usually I'm disappointed, but not this time. There's "dark" taste, almost tabacco-like.

Malca's black IPA is chocolatey in aroma and flavor, and I must say it's my favorite Malca beer to date.

We ended with this Shapiro beer, Double IPA, which is good, since it has 8.2% alcohol. Shapiro, one of the best of the local Israeli beers, and it didn't disappoint. 

We had an enjoyable evening, and I got home safe and sound.

Jerusalem Beer Festival 2022, Great Fun & One Night More

I had a wonderful time last night at the Jerusalem Beer Festival in Gan Haatzmaut. It'll be open tonight, too, so go if you can.

After I set up a display of various beers, we were instructed to take it down, as glass bottles of beer are forbidden at the festival for safety reasons. You can only buy servings of beer in plastic cups. Besides the disposable cups, heavy duty reusable plastic cups were offered for sale.

I tasted a great variety of beers, some new and some old favorites. To be perfectly honest, I liked them all and hope to write about them later on. The various beer companies sell their beer online and in some stores. But I had wanted to get this post out today as early as possible. As you can see from the lighting and empty grass, I was there early and to be honest, left early. The big performances get noisy for me. I came for the beer and wasn't disappointed.

Enjoy!

Here's Doug Greener aka the Beer Maven learning the story about Raizel Beer.

Jerusalem Beer Festival, Great Fun

For the second year in a row, I joined the Beer Maivin aka Doug Greener at the Jerusalem Beer Festival in Independence Park. We all had a wonderful time. I stayed until the noise aka music made it impossible to talk, and then I trekked home, train, bus and tremps.

Of course, I was at the beer festival to drink Israeli craft beer and sample lots of new ones. This year the new and interesting beers were the fruity kind. At one stand there were what I considered "dessert beers." They were sweet, one more an apple cider and the other had a strong pineapple taste. I prefered the pineapple. At a different stand I tried a cherry one, which was awful. It had a very strong taste of artificial cherry, sort of like children's syrupy medicine.

The larger Israeli craft beer companies have been making deals with foreign craft beermakers. One got together with a beermaker in  Arizona, and they came up with what they called the 7 C's. The "C's" are different types of hops. I liked the Israeli version of it.

Basically, I used this wonderful opportunity, the Jerusalem Beer Festival, to hone in on my beer preferences. I like a strong dark beer which tastes like beer and doesn't mask the hops with other flavors. And to be honest, I do better drinking beer than wine.

Make sure you join us next year.

Israeli Craft Beer Saga

*The Beer Bazaar has been in touch with me, and I hope to have a proper visit in the near future. I must say that they really seem to care about the service and customer relations. 

Last week visitors were here from abroad, and I wanted to show off the fantastic craft beer we now have here in Israel.  In addition, I had hoped to blog a great review of the place and the beers. Since we were in Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda aka the shuq,I took them to Beer Bazaar, but it just didn't work out. I'm now in touch with the owners and hope to have a more pleasant visit in the future.

The beer mavin has been mentoring me about craft beer, and I'm a great fan of it.