New Glarus has always been kind of an enigma to me. My first experience with them was at the Great American Beer Fest, sipping amazingly rare, tart, weird beers out of a 1 ounce tasting glass. It's one of few lines at a festival with hundreds and hundreds (last I was there over 600, in 2017 over 700) of breweries that you may try to get back in to two or three times. Their beers are amazing. And different, which is probably more important. If you want a great pilsner, and live in the Philly area, you're swimming in quality PA choices. Same with a nice pale ale. With IPA, there's still some pretty fantastic local ones, as well as a treasure chest of world class imports. There also a brewery in Ardmore that's setting the bar for NE IPA. But there's nothing close to Serendipity, or Raspberry Tart in the area, and unless you have a friend who's sister moved to Wisconsin, or are regularly trading the Tired Hands beers I mentioned previously with someone in that area, you're out of luck.
The liquid in this bottle is pretty indescribable. It appears like a darker shade of rosé, I don't want to call it muddy because you can see through it if it's back-lit. The head is extremely full, fluffy, pillowy, and sticks around for quite a bit. The color of a strawberry tinted cappuccino. It's not a framboise, it's tart but sweet, it's full bodied but doesn't seem heavy. Well, I guess it can be described, just very poorly. I'm admittedly not great at tasting notes, and with everything else that is going on in this one, it's even more difficult. It's like macerated raspberries, with some of the juice strained out and then turned into an angel like liquid that has alcohol in it.
The wonder of New Glarus. A brewery that in 2015 was 20th in craft production in the US, that only distributes in its home state.
A trope of this blog was to make fun of websites. As much as I think this beer is delicious, I'm going to go back to that for a bit:
- not from website "New Glarus brewing company was founded in 1993. Around that time, the internet was invented by famed Wisconsinite Al Gore. An 8th grader at the time, Jeremiah Wallenpatrick, found geocities, and created a website for the brewery. Approximately seven years later, Wallenpatrick upgraded the sight after graduating from NGCC with an associates degree in "Computers." What you see is a historic take on the brewery, with old pictures and labels. Just in case you ever meet Dan, all of the photos on this site are from 1993-1997, so he looks a little different. Yes, he still has that mustache. Oh, Dan. Check out our beers, we answer your letters, and check out our headlines! Yes, some of those links just take you to the home page of our local paper, but those articles were from 2-7 years ago, so what does it really matter. We web site now!"
Thanks Jason. This was a truly epic beer experience. Five Bottle Caps.
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