While in Peru this Summer I received, as a gift from my cousin, a mixed six-pack of beers by Cervecería Artesanal Ucuchá. Ucuchá is a craft brewery in the northern Andean town of Ucucha, a village of fewer than 100 inhabitants located at 8,860 feet above sea level in the department of Ancash, at the…
Category: Beer Reviews
Strike Triple Play TIPA
I chose to mark IPA Day with a triple IPA by Strike Brewing, from San Jose (California). Triple Play is part of Strike’s regular line up of beers. Unlike other breweries, who release triple IPA’s only once or twice a year, Strike makes Triple Play available year-round. When poured into the glass, Triple Play offers…
La Cantina (Salinas, CA)
La Cantina Brewing Company is one of Salinas’ newest breweries (the other being Brew-N-Krew Alehouse, which just opened). La Cantina is located at the north end of the historic part of downtown, half a block from the National Steinbeck Center, in the former home of the Monterey Coast Brewing Co. La Cantina is a Mexican-American…
Barbarian’s Plan B 004
Plan B is a series of special-production “experimental craft beers” beers released once a year in large-format 750 ml bottles by Lima’s Cervecería Barbarian. In this post I review Barbarian’s 2020 release, Plan B 004. Plan B 004, released on 21 December 2020, is a Belgian-style tripel made by innoculating a batch of Barbarian’s Belga…