This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 76: March 17, 2015
Diary entry:
Another gorgeous day weather-wise. So happy to see that spring is coming on full. The dreary winter should soon be at an end, and Spring / Summer travel will be coming on strong!
Made some interesting plans for a bottle share beer tasting for April, will be nice to have a chance to share up some of the bottles I have sitting around that there’s no way I can drink alone. And to try some other great beers in the process!
Tonight was St. Patrick’s Day, so the goal was to find a pint of Guinness to celebrate. Or any Irish beer, for that matter. I didn’t want to have to travel down to Eindhoven, Tilburg or ‘s-Hertogenbosch for this, so luckily, there is a bar in town that I know has Guinness on draft.
But CLOSED!
Ah, the joys of living in a small town, in a country where St. Patrick’s Day is not really celebrated. Well, there’s a number of other pubs in town, one of them has to have it, right? Nope! Seems one other pub does have it in cans, but it was also closed! And by the time I came to the final conclusion and gave up on finding a pub, it was past 9PM and the grocery was already closed. Oh well…will settle for another beer.
The Beer:
Name: Den Dorstige Tijger
Style: American IPA
Producer: Ramses Bier
Alcohol content: 6.6%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: Bar Becoloth in Boxtel, Netherlands
Tonight’s beer is Den Dorstige Tijger IPA from Ramses Bier of Hooge Zwaluwe in the Netherlands. Centennial Single hopped, with 120 minutes of continuous hopping. Dry hopped to boot. Rather bitter. An amber color without much head.
Commercial Description:
Den Dorstige Tijger is an India Pale Ale. An IPA is a traditionally heavily hopped beer. Hop used as preservative on long boat trips is a Dutch invention. The English copied this trick with much success. This tiger will quenche your thirst again and again. One leg in the past and one in the present. Pure, soft and balanced.
