Gandy Dancer

Splendidly good beer.

Snake Hollow IPA

Sandy and I enjoyed a nice getaway this weekend in Marquette, Iowa. For lunch we crossed the Mississippi River for some Wisconsin cheese and Wisconsin beer.  Stopping in at Prairie du Chien's Fort Mulligan's Grill Pub we ordered some terrific fried cheese curds and this newly discovered beer made delicious by the hints of orange and herbs in every well-balanced swallow.

Good Old Potosi

We are working overtime around here preparing for Christmas. My wife Sandy, daughter Rachel and I are each at our computers editing sound and images for the Christmas Eve Children’s Service at church. While waiting for each of them to finish their next step in the process, I take a quick break to pull a beer from my Advent Calendar.

Good Old Potosi Beer is so flavorful, so sweet, it’s not really improving my concentration on this editing project.

Potosi Cave Ale

Potosi Pure Malt Cave Ale, #15 in my Advent Calendar, is one I’ve tried before, on July 8 of this year, when we visited the Potosi brewery in Wisconsin.  I made a passing reference to it on the entry about Potosi’s Black beer. Since the Cave Ale was my wife’s hospitality sample, and I only finished what she didn’t want, I hadn’t yet given it a full page of its own.  Today it is my pleasure to have one all to myself.

Cave Ale is an interesting combination of sweet, caramel-like malt and bitter hops. There’s not a lot of specific flavor to the hops, but enough bitterness to balance, which is fitting for the style of English Special Bitter. I'm definitely happy to have this one again today, and hopefully again in the future.

Potosi Black Beer

Sandy and I took an enjoyable stroll through the National Brewery Museum™ in Potosi, Wisconsin.  It has an impressive collection of items from beer’s history, covering especially breweries in the upper Midwest.  I was enthralled with several pre-prohibition bottles in good shape.  This was definitely not the hokey tourist trap we were expecting we might find in this little out of the way town.

Afterward we enjoyed our complimentary sample of Potosi’s beers.

I had the Potosi Black beer on the left.  It had the nicely dark roasted grain flavor that I was looking for.  Sandy ordered the Cave Ale, which I also drank.