{"id":1181,"date":"2012-02-07T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:01:50","slug":"review-shorts-anniversary-ale-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/review-shorts-anniversary-ale-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer’s Getting Shorts-er Cellar Review: Short’s Anniversary Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a> “Anniversary 2009 is a wheat wine with multicolor peppercorns, corriander, orange peel, blood orange zest and 225 lbs of blood oranges.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Short’s Anniversary Ale 2009 Sayeth the Guys:<\/em><\/p>\n FRESH<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Karl: <\/strong>I have a pretty firm grasp on the different distinctions between beer styles thus far, but I still confuse the concept of \u201cwheat wine\u201d versus \u201cbarleywine.\u201d \u00a0Doesn\u2019t matter, as long as it\u2019s good, right? \u00a0While I don\u2019t think I adored this the way Ryan did – I think he\u2019s planning on naming a child Annie \u201cShorty\u201d Versary – it\u2019s still a solid offering.<\/p>\n This blood orange beer packs in a surprising amount of alcohol, at about 11%. \u00a0You can really smell the orange (they apparently used 225 pounds in the brew), but while blood oranges are generally pretty sharp, tart and grapefruit-esque, here the nose and taste was pleasantly nice and round.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll let Ryan wax poetic about all the other awesome things about the taste, the head, the specific weight and gravity and all that jazz – what I want to highlight here is how dramatically gentle the body of this beer was. \u00a0It was delicate, it was smooth, it was almost silken. \u00a0Even if it tasted like nothing, I\u2019d still recommend this beer just to see what can be done with things other than huge dramatic flavors.<\/p>\n Other notes: \u00a0I didn\u2019t get any of the promised peppercorn or (despite what I said about it previously this week) coriander, but the taste did developed a certain sharpness as it gradually opened up. \u00a0A little soapiness came to the forefront as well, which I detect with certain kinds of hops but didn\u2019t negatively affect my opinion.<\/p>\n Ryan:<\/strong> Wow, if I knew it was going to be up to me to lay out the specifics of this beer I would have taken better notes – or at least ones that I could read.\u00a0 No, I’m serious, can you tell me what this says?<\/p>\n
\nShort’s says:<\/p>\n
\nWheatwine, 11.7% ABV
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