Ok, standard ritual, face in mug, big sniff...two for this one, then a taste....wait on it, wait....now taste again and ponder....
ok, I like this one...but what is that taste I taste....earthy, but I know it, just cant think of it after my last beer...lol...just kidding but this might take the whole beer to figure out. Lots of hoppy flavor happening here, if you don't like hops, stay away from this beer. Me, I like hops, Hops is the best thing added to beer since the addition of barley malt.
Fair head on this one right out of the bottle, definatly not a barley wine even if the beer totes a 11.5 % APV. Wow, ok, another drink...this is good beer. I like head on my beer just because i do, I know its a beer and who can honestly say they dont like head...on their beer. Dirty minds, all of you.
This was the cheaper of the two beers sampled tonight, 12 oz = $2.50. Why pay less when you can drink better. 1 of these beers is like a whole six pack of Natural light and taste, well, it has taste, more then I can say for the American piss water served these days. What would this country be like if it knew what beer was supose to taste like. What most people drink is what was considered a suitable alternative for undrinkable water.
Ok, this one is making thisgs fuzzy around their edges...rating? Ill give it an 7.5. maybe earn an 8 on my next bottle full!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monster Ale Rated (5)
This beer is made by Brooklyn Brewery in, you guessed it, Brooklyn New York. I chilled the beer to about 50 deg F, celler temp. The pour left a little to be desired with very little head however, this is another BIG beer coming it at 10.8% APV. Most beers at that strength loose their head and if you drink too much of it, so will you. Ok, face to glass, deep breathe in through the nose...snnnnnnnniffffff...not bad, yo can smell the alcohol but the smell is inviting...1st sip, let it sit in the mouth a second and....hummmm, another sip....ok, not the best beer I have had in my mouth but pretty good. Pretty damn good I should say. Seems to have an almost green taste to it, like it could age a bit longer but that may be the alcohol I am tasting...no, it has a bitter taste to it that is distinctivly green. Big beers like this can age well past a year, or so that say because the alcohol content is so high critters cant grow and spoil the beer. One day (yea right) I am going to bury some of the really heavy big beers and see what they taste like. But a whole year, that's as bad as making mead.
Ok, so what do I rate this...let me have another drink...ok, I will give this a 7 only because I am feeling the effects, so it is potent. As for taste, maybe a 4, or 5. But remember, my scale goes from a 1, which is a beer I would drink to a 10 which is a beer I would hide from my closest friend. So this one officiall gets rated a 5.
Heres to you!
Ok, so what do I rate this...let me have another drink...ok, I will give this a 7 only because I am feeling the effects, so it is potent. As for taste, maybe a 4, or 5. But remember, my scale goes from a 1, which is a beer I would drink to a 10 which is a beer I would hide from my closest friend. So this one officiall gets rated a 5.
Heres to you!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Three Philosophers
I have grown to really appriciate the heavy big beers of Belgian. I have tried a number of them and so far have liked them all. This one is no exception. Unlike many of the Belgian ales I have tasted, Three Philosophers has a deep reddish color and a thick foamy head that stick to the inside of the glass.
This is also a flavored beer which I am not all too happy with, beer is beer, fruit belongs in wines and meads. This is no different in that my only real complaint is the cherry aftertaste. And your burps have that cherry coke aftertaste, light but it makes this beer fall way down the scale. I would score this a simple 6. Mostly because of its high 9.8% APV. Gravity is what they call it I think.
Anyway, I make better beer at home, but not that much better. i would buy this again, especially if I knew we would follow the beer up with something a little richer.
Final note, upon pulling the cork I noticed a high degree of CO2 pressure, and I can feel it when I drink it, a lot of belching.
Heres to your health!
This is also a flavored beer which I am not all too happy with, beer is beer, fruit belongs in wines and meads. This is no different in that my only real complaint is the cherry aftertaste. And your burps have that cherry coke aftertaste, light but it makes this beer fall way down the scale. I would score this a simple 6. Mostly because of its high 9.8% APV. Gravity is what they call it I think.
Anyway, I make better beer at home, but not that much better. i would buy this again, especially if I knew we would follow the beer up with something a little richer.
Final note, upon pulling the cork I noticed a high degree of CO2 pressure, and I can feel it when I drink it, a lot of belching.
Heres to your health!
Dog Fish Head - Olde School
This is the second beer from this brewery I have tasted. The folks at Dog Fish Head are not right. What they do borders on insanity. Who would ever dream of producing an 11%ABV beer and serving it in convient 12 oz bottles in a neat little six pack. Well these folks do, and its bigger brother is double the punch at somewhere above 20% APV. What are these guys thinking!
Ill tell you, in my book they have taken the top best beer that I have ever had. Rich? Hell, I have never really wanted to chew on a beer like those beer snobs do until I took my first drink. Not only does the taste almost knock you over when your swishing but it kills germs too.
But seriously, this is big beer. Big in everything. Now I will blog on the Dog Fish Head 120min beer in another post, it was delicious but its little brother (if you could dare call him little) is one fine beer. Solid flavor, bold to the point it is almost a Barley Wine. One bottle and I knew, if I had another i would be done for, water from then on. My mistake was being thirsty when I first opened it. So I wasted the first half but the remaining, I took my time and savored. it reminded me of eating a well seasoned steak, where each bite it, ummmmmm.
Find a night to stay home, buy you couple of these beers, and enjoy. Or better yet, a six pack and a close friend who appreciated good beer, and have a blast!
Heres to you!
Ill tell you, in my book they have taken the top best beer that I have ever had. Rich? Hell, I have never really wanted to chew on a beer like those beer snobs do until I took my first drink. Not only does the taste almost knock you over when your swishing but it kills germs too.
But seriously, this is big beer. Big in everything. Now I will blog on the Dog Fish Head 120min beer in another post, it was delicious but its little brother (if you could dare call him little) is one fine beer. Solid flavor, bold to the point it is almost a Barley Wine. One bottle and I knew, if I had another i would be done for, water from then on. My mistake was being thirsty when I first opened it. So I wasted the first half but the remaining, I took my time and savored. it reminded me of eating a well seasoned steak, where each bite it, ummmmmm.
Find a night to stay home, buy you couple of these beers, and enjoy. Or better yet, a six pack and a close friend who appreciated good beer, and have a blast!
Heres to you!
Introduction of my new blog
This is not the first beer I have ever commented on, in truth, you might even call me a beer snob. I don't care, drink your Natural Light and Budweisers all you want, hell, I used to. But that was befor I knew why someone would lay a 5 dollar bill on the counter for a 12 oz bottle of real beer. FIVE DOLLARS! you say. Think about it, that's the cost of a drink at a bar and you don't see people jumping on the tables over it? So, I choose to drink "other" beers. Beers an amazing number of beer drinkers have never heard of.
In an attempt to express my love for good beer I decided to add this topic to my blogging which has grown in interest to me. So lets get down to business. I lied when i said I was a beer snob, I really don't know the special language beer snobs use and when in the presence of them (which happens when you drink good beer) I just nod my head and smile. What follows is opinion and in that, the use of my own terminology. If I find there is some common descriptions I might put it in a dictionary but i doubt it, just read and I will do my best.
So what follows, is my opinion, I don't mind you disagreeing but what good will that do, i will still think the same way I did before you disagreed. Instead, add to what i say and if you have not actually tasted the beers I preview, you can't say if you like it, just like my kids (who now have a broad palate for diffrent foods. I hope you enjoy!
In an attempt to express my love for good beer I decided to add this topic to my blogging which has grown in interest to me. So lets get down to business. I lied when i said I was a beer snob, I really don't know the special language beer snobs use and when in the presence of them (which happens when you drink good beer) I just nod my head and smile. What follows is opinion and in that, the use of my own terminology. If I find there is some common descriptions I might put it in a dictionary but i doubt it, just read and I will do my best.
So what follows, is my opinion, I don't mind you disagreeing but what good will that do, i will still think the same way I did before you disagreed. Instead, add to what i say and if you have not actually tasted the beers I preview, you can't say if you like it, just like my kids (who now have a broad palate for diffrent foods. I hope you enjoy!
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