- 5.60% ABV
- Not bad. It is pretty smooth tasting and very representative of what I have come to expect an American Amber to taste like. I have had a lot of crazy ass ambers that while good were completely of the style. Not the case here, a well made and good tasting amber. My only complaint is that there isnt anything that stands out and makes me go “Holy Crap”.
- - Dont buy.
- 6.00% ABV
- Well the bottle says it is a English Black Ale and at first taste I was going to blast it as being like most English beers, good on the malts and horrible on the hops. After actually looking it up I find out it is just a (pretty good) stout. Nothing to write home about but I am not sad to drink it.
- - Dont buy again.
- 8.03% ABV
- Now that is one damned fine porter. It tastes a little more chocolaty than smoked and I am not having a huge problem with it. It isnt as good as a Stone, but seriously what is? For real those, this is a good ass beer. Ya this go buy one. Even if it is from Texas and isnt a Shiner.
- + Buy again
- 3.80% ABV
- I am like 6 different kinds of confused over this beer. I mean isnt 3.8% ABV like a near beer? I am pretty sure you can buy beer in a Utah grocery store with a higher ABV than this. So I pretty much expected this to taste like an O’Doul’s but it isnt really all that bad. I mean it is pretty light on the malt and hop side but it isnt as bad as a American Macro. Umm, I might be revising my opinion here. The more I drink it the less I am liking it. I dunno, it is OK.
- - Dont buy
- 6.00% ABV
- I was really looking forward to getting a growler of this and for some reason it has taken a couple of months. I dont know why, the brewer is like 5 minutes away from my work… I dont know, any way, Dustard graciously went out and lunch and picked one up for me (he is a good minion). Well as far as the taste goes I am a little underwhelmed. It has a kind of buttery taste to it? I guess? I dont know, it is also kind of low on the IBU scale, more like an English pale ale. It isnt bad but I dont dislike it but I stupidly had higher hopes for it.
- + Buy again (because it is local)
- 5.50% ABV
- No sir! I dont like it. I can totally taste what they were going for here, I am picking up the Saison style. I am getting a roasted malt flavor. It is just that I personally dont like the style combined. They dont really play well of off each other.
- - Dont buy
- 6.40% ABV
- All of the Rye IPA’s I have had so far fall into one of two camps, Awesome or soap. I think this might be a soap one but in the grand tradition of the Widmer Brothers Brewery it is so watered down and muted that I cant really tell. It isnt bad tasting, it is more muted I guess. It just doesnt really stand out in any specific way. I assume that Widmer is pursing the “I want to try a craft beer, but I want it to taste like a Miller” market. I dunno, maybe I am being to harsh…
- - Dont buy
- 11.00% ABV
- So supposedly there is maple, vanilla, and oak in this. I can totally taste the vanilla right of the bat and it tastes good. As I sit and type the maple and oak peek out in the after taste which I am appreciating more and more as I drink. Damn, I was almost ready to write this off before I tasted it because of the ABV, which is to god damn high. It keeps growing on me, it reminds me of the Life and Limb but it actually tastes good. I feel like I am eating a New England forest in November. Maple, oak deliciousness…
- + Buy again
- 10.00% ABV
- So I think I have had 4 or 5 barleywines and I have liked all of them. I like the deep ass (non stout) malt taste. I like, and this is strange, the thorax warming ABV level that you cant taste. The only thing I dont like is the super high ass level ABV, and yes I know I just contradicted myself… Deal with it. This is a “barley wine” but those crazy ass Norwegians basically did there own thing with the concept. It is bitter… Like IPA bitter, but in a grudge match with the malts. It in no way resembles a Black IPA because the taste is completely different, but the same type of thing is going on. Super strong malts battling crushing hops in a war that unfortunately every one loses. The ABV is the only thing that keeps coming to the fore front, I just cant get past how alcoholy it tastes.
- - Dont buy
- 7.00% ABV
- As a IPA this is pretty good, as a wet hopped IPA is OK. It is just missing that green taste the other fresh hopped IPA’s I have tried. I am kind of sad but it does make a very tasty IPA.
- + Buy again
- 10.80% ABV
- A new style of beer for me (Yay), English Barleywine. Here is the odd thing, I am total Anglophile. No apologies, I just love England. I love everything English except for one thing, their beer. How messed up is that? One of the few things I love more than England is beer and I dont like English beer. Their IPA’s suck, brown ale’s suck and dont get me started on bitters. Any way, I have recently started drinking barleywine’s (American) and I have been loving them. This is my first of the English style and so far I am not impressed. Unlike the American style I am not getting that HUGE malt punch in it, instead I think there is a slight medicinal taste to it. Like medicinal alcohol. The after taste is pretty good but all in all I am cant get past the beginning.
- - Dont buy
- 8.50% ABV
- I cant really tell where the passion fruit is in this but I am also having a horrible allergy attack right now so… I can tell that it is pretty smooth with out that crispness you normally expect from a saison. I dunno maybe that is the passion fruit muting it. I like it but it is pretty unremarkable.
- - Dont buy
- 6.10% ABV
- I am generally not a fan of stout’s but hot damn! This thing is amazing, I for real am loving it. It is super smooth in a Barry White sense. I am pretty sure that while drinking this I should be making sweet sweet love to M1. Probably on a bear skin rug in front of a fireplace. This isnt like a normal stout, I think it is the double cream part. What ever is going on it works. This is truly an excellent stout.
- + Buy again
- 8.00% ABV
- I have no idea why an Italian brewery would decide to make a Flanders Red but I am glad they did. I like em… I like em real good. Everybody I know thinks I am insane for liking them… But they are wrong, I dont like them… I LOVE THEM. So sour, so delicious. It is like drinking an alcoholic bottle of vinegar. I want to pour it over a plate of fish and french fries and make a totally inebriating meal of awesome.
- + Buy again
- 7.00% ABV
- This has got to be the best Belgian Strong Pale Ale I have ever had and it is a Christmas ale on top of that. For one it seems like they used actual hops in it. For real bittering hops. Like Pale Ale hops. I am astounded, the Belgians finally got something right. M1 likes it too… Strange, I have to believe there is an American in their brewery.
- + Buy again.
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