Dogfish Head Pangaea:
Oh Dogfish Head, how great you are.  I firmly believe that you could pick out three random ingredients in the grocery store, give them to the crew in Delaware and they’d make it into a tasty beer.  Now that may seem like I’m giving them more credit than they deserve but as soon as the don’t make a good beer, I’ll stand corrected.  (Now, before some of you stop me, yes I wasn’t a fan of their Red & White but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good beer, just not to my liking.  And, no, I haven‘t had it this year.)  Today’s beer takes it’s ingredient list from around the world and combines them into one big bottle and gives it a prehistoric name: Pangaea.  To show how worldly this beer is, it takes crystallized gingers from Australia, water from Antarctica (shouldn’t that be snow?), rice from Asia, corn from North America, sugar from Africa, quinoa (an edible seed) from South America, and yeast from Europe.  So how does it taste?  Well, the beer pours a semi-cloudy golden color with a light white head that evaporates down to a nice thin layer on top of the beer and a nose of spicy ginger.  The beer is almost a summer beer in it’s taste and mouth feel with a light crisp flavor of ginger that accompanies a mild blonde beer flavor that is very uniform throughout though the aftertaste that is a bit straw like but it really isn’t enough to offend the palate.  Another good beer from Dogfish but it really lacks the creativity of some of their other beers out there.  Probably best drunk with an Asian food dish with it’s strong ginger flavor or it drinks well all on it’s own as well.