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We’re going to talk about glass styles for a little bit here on the site, but this gallery of illustrations should wet your whistle.
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date Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:59 PM
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Hi -
Do you have any information on the amount of calories in Mighty Arrow available? I haven’t been able to find anything on the web about them and if you google “mighty arrow calories” the top sites don’t list anything for it. Any help is appreciated.
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Frank –
Thanks for being a conscious consumer! Here is a chart with calories, carbs, and % alcohol by volume for most of our current brews including Mighty Arrow.
Nutritional Information
(per one 12oz serving)
Year- round beers ABV1 Calories
Fat Tire 5.2% 160
Sunshine Wheat 4.8% 145
1554 5.6% 205
Trippel 7.8% 215
Abbey 7.0% 200
Blue Paddle 4.8% 140
Seasonal Releases
Biere de Mars 6.2% 195
Skinny Dip 4.2% 110
Mighty Arrow 6.0% 180
Old Cherry 6.5 200
Giddy Up 6.0% 180
Frambozen 6.5% 200
2 Below 6.6% 200
Lips of Faith beers2
Abbey Grand Cru 9.5% 270
Eric’s Ale 7.0% 220
Bens Saison 5.3% 190
La Terroir 6.0% 200
Limited Releases2
La Folie 6.0 200
Mothership Wit 4.8% 155
1 ABV stands for Alcohol by Volume
2 Lips of Faith and Limited Release beers are available for a few months at a time in the brewery’s tasting room and specific locations within our distribution territory
Please let me know if this is too difficult to read or there is any other information that you would like!
Cheers,
Danelle
500 Linden Street
Fort Collins, CO 80524
(970) 221-0524
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to frank@beercalories.info
date Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:26 PM
subject RE: Website: New FAQ Question
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Thanks for your email, Frank.
There are approximately 187 calories per 12 oz serving of Drifter Pale Ale.
I hope this helps.
Prost!
Widmer Brothers Brewing Co.
929 N Russell St., Portland, OR 97227
www.widmer.com
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Question: How many calories are in a Drifter Pale Ale?
Hops are used to “bitter” beer. What you will read elsewhere is that hops counterbalance the malt (which is essentially a sugar) and keep the beer from being too sweet. This is true…sorta. Without hops, beer would taste somewhat like overripe fruit and the flavors contributed by the yeast, perhaps overpowering. Hops contributes an acid that evens all of this out and leaves the beer tasting as you know it. Beers may be very lightly hopped such as Hefeweizen (see our Hefeweizen Ale Description) or very heavily hopped such as a Double India Pale Ale (IPA).
Which level of hopping you prefer is entirely down to personal tastes. Other means of processing the beer can yield similar results. Beer sometimes bittered with fruit or spices. The malt may be roasted to a greater degree and thus need less hopping. Finally, more heavily carbonated styles of beer are typically not hopped as heavily.
Hops also contribute aroma to the beer. The hop is the stamen of a flower and as such hops smell like flowers.
If a hop is being used to bitter the beer, it is added at the beginning of the boiling the wort undergoes. The heat draws more bittering acid out of the hop during the time its boiled. If the hop is being used to contribute to the beer’s aroma, it is added at the end of the boil. It is boiled briefly and the smell comes out of it but not the acid. Sometimes hops aren’t boiled at all, this is known as dry hopping. This is done
mostly for an aromatic effect. Hop varities basically fall into two camps: bittering and aromatic. Fresh hops look like somewhat like leafy green balls and may be used without further processing. However to preserve them, they are typically dried, compressed into little pellets (e.g. like rabbit food), refrigerated, and often stored in scent preserving bag.
Each region of the world has its own distinct hops varieties, of which they are quite proud and considered better than all other varities Local growers will tell you they grow the best hops anywhere.
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American Hops are typically considered to be harsher than European Hops for the same level of bittering. Frequently used varieties include:
Many other varieties exist.
The ale portion of the names come from the yeast used. Ale yeasts are a warmer fermenting yeast, they work best from the mid 60s F to 75 F.