Dubbel Nickels

Belgian-style Dubbel As we settle in for winter, CBC presents our newest seasonal beer, Dubbel Nickels, named for the 1984 album Double Nickels on the Dime by seminal punk trio The Minutemen*. Dubbel Nickels is a Belgian style strong brown ale marked by a generous addition of caramelized candi sugar and a complex malt bill. It pours a rich deep mahogany with a light tan head, and hints of orange and ruby around the edges. Its aroma is of dark fruit and bright spiciness from our house Belgian yeast. It tastes of more dark fruit, plums, raisins and caramel, courtesy of the candi sugar, and also hints of grain from the blend of British and Belgian caramel and aromatic malts. While full on the palate, Dubbel Nickels is a rich beer with a distinctly dry finish. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! [wpex more="Read more" less="Read less"] *The album was named Double Nickels on the Dime as a reaction to the Sammy Hagar song “I Can’t Drive 55,” a protest against the federally-imposed speed limit of 55 miles per hour on all U.S. highways. Minutemen decided that driving fast “wasn’t terribly defiant”; Watt later commented that “the big rebellion thing was writing your own…songs and trying to come up with your own story, your own picture, your own book, whatever. So he can’t drive 55, because that was the national speed limit? Okay, we’ll drive 55, but we’ll make crazy music.” The band illustrated the theme on the cover of Double Nickels on the Dime, which depicts Watt driving his Volkswagen Beetle at exactly 55 miles per hour (“double nickels” in trucker slang) on Interstate Highway 10, which is sometimes called “The Dime” in trucker slang. “The title means fifty-five miles per hour on the button, like we were Johnny Conservative.” Thanks, Wikipedia! Tulip $5.75 Pitcher $21 Tower $36[/wpex]

Original Gravity
1.073

Final Gravity
1.016

ABV
7.5%