Day 309 / November 5, 2011
Shmaltz Brewing Company
/ San Francisco, CA and Coney Island, NY
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Even with 30 beers on tap, it’s hard to find a beer I haven’t had this
year. At Fireworks Pizza in Arlington,
VA, one of the few taps I hadn’t had was Coney Island’s Human Blockhead. This was no ordinary Human Blockhead, this
was a barrel aged Human Blockhead.
Now an ordinary Human Blockhead is an Imperial American Bock, or a doppelbock
– a full bodied, malty beer that has been considered a meal in a glass for
centuries. But this is a barrel aged
doppelbock, aged for five months in Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels.
This is a strong, hearty beer – probably a little too strong and hearty
for me, but you might like this.
And speaking of human blockheads, I’m pretty sure that I saw the
original human blockhead, Melvin
Burkhart, at a carnival sideshow when I was a kid. Did you?
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