Saturday afternoon I had to go out to the grocery store–nothing puts a crimp in the rest of the day like a lack of breakfast cereal. (For those keeping score at home, I generally prefer Peanut Butter Cap’N Crunch or Cookie Crisp.) So, I drove to Eldersburg and went to the store.<\/p>\n
While I was out, I decided I’d stop at a liquor store. Why? The off-chance I might find Beamish<\/a>, that’s why. Not that I was itching for Beamish, because I wasn’t, but it would be interesting to see. And Eldersburg struck me as being someplace where I might find Beamish. Certainly not the corner liquor store by the house where I’d have no<\/i> chance.<\/p>\n Alas, no Beamish Irish Stout. Guinness Draught, yes. Murphy’s Irish Stout, which I absolutely abhor, yes. But no Beamish.<\/p>\n However, they did<\/i> have something I wasn’t expecting, something I hadn’t seen in many a year.<\/p>\n The Sam Adams Honey Porter.<\/p>\n Stouts and porters are my thing. Ales, slightly less so. Lagers, not really.<\/p>\n See, I have a rule. I’ve described it before, but it bears repeating. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Pour the beer into the glass. Place a hand behind the glass. If the hand can be seen through the beer, the beer is not dark enough.<\/p>\n That’s Allyn’s beer rule. And it’s a rule that has served me well for many a year.<\/p>\n In college I drank Sam Adams<\/a>. Generally the Cream Stout, which they describe as the “cappucino of beers.” But I also drank the Honey Porter. The label on the bottle described it as a beer style that Paul Revere and Thomas Jefferson would have had. A little sweeter, a little smoother, not as bitter, but still dark.<\/p>\n Damn, that was awesome stuff. It wasn’t difficult to find in Richmond–there was a specialty beer shop right off campus. Or the Hannaford’s on Broad Street–they had a wide beer selection.<\/p>\n After college, though? Never saw it again.<\/p>\n Turns out that the Boston Brewing Company stopped brewing the Sam Adams Honey Porter. Just recently–in the past year or so–they put it back into production. I hadn’t gone looking for it. Truthfully, I’d decided that I wasn’t going to find it here in Maryland. But when I saw it on Saturday, damn the expense, I had to buy it.<\/p>\n Who’d have thought that Guinness would be cheaper? Not I, not I.<\/p>\n Oh, it’s every bit as good as I remember. Smooth, slightly sweet, not at all bitter. It has flavor and style. The Honey Porter.<\/p>\n Life is good. :cheers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday afternoon I had to go out to the grocery store–nothing puts a crimp in the rest of the day like a lack of breakfast cereal. (For those keeping score at home, I generally prefer Peanut Butter Cap’N Crunch or Cookie Crisp.) So, I drove to Eldersburg and went to the store. While I wasContinue reading “On the Sam Adams Honey Porter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[327,1172,328],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-beer","tag-honey-porter","tag-sam-adams","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}