This years winner is not typical in that it is fro the first time in the history of my blogging the winner is not a beer but an entire brewery. This one brewer has produced such thinking outside the box brewing innovation that the entire brewer as a whole is worthy of this accolade. The problem with most nonconformist brewers is that they are too young and as such produce such crap, it is either too bitter or too watery. However, with Buffalo Bill’s Brewery out of Hayward, CA has been of the blog three times this year and every time it has been met with rave reviews. This beer has bucked the notion that a beet an only be good if it is good to drink as a standalone and an eating beer. They have walked the fine line of placing the taste and substance and done it with such style. I can not say enough about this brewer and the beers that they put out. please try these beers for yourself and I think that you will see why I am such a fan of this brewer. In conclusion, I want to thank you for another year of blogging and beers. I will be posting less in the upcoming year due to some other projects I am working on in 2012. I look forward to blogging for you in the future. Thank you, and bye bye for now.
Guinness Black Lager
This is the last beer review of the year before I announce the beer of the year next week. As I stated in past reviews, I would love to hear from any of you out there in regards to what you think the beer of the year should be. Having said that, hers this weeks review and unfortunately it is not a hit. This is the latest offering from Guinness, yes the people who brought the world the dark of night beer Guinness stout which if you ever have ever it, it is one hell of a rotten beer, like bitter cold coffee thats been left in the pot over night. Then there is also the middle of the road sort of beer form Guinness which is Guinness Draft. which is a modern marvel in that to export it to beer drinkers around the world they had to invent a way to carbonate the beer like when it comes out of the tap and into the glass. The issue was that to carbonate the beer like normal it would not cat right in the glass when opened, because when you let beer sit in the glass it will slightly settle in the carbonation department and so out of the necessity of proper beer drinking of a fine brew came the “WIGIT” which carbonates the beer the moment you bob the top. You will only see Guinness Draft in the can because of this. Now on to the brand new offering, the Guinness Black Lager, made to toe into the american markets where the other tow beers could not penetrate. The average joe six packs house. Yes this is Guinness selling out to make the green and I am not referring to hops here. This is just lame and tasteless, this is what an Irish man uses to clean sheep shit from his dogs feet. Pandering to the average american moron (yep, I said it and if this makes you angry then prove me wrong. Say by the way did catch todays Playboy morning show, or anything on “spice” radio? I rest my case) in this way is tantamount to taking your heritage filled name to the abortion clinic for an appointment. I am so unimpressed by this beer. The story of the three Guinness beers goes like this there was one Guinness that was too bitter, there was one that was in the middle and just right and there was one that was too light. This really is like drinking water and is such a letdown for black lager lovers of the world because there are some out there that are really flavorful and provocative, and in this case some that are not. If you are looking for a good example of what a “good” black lager is, then look no further than shiner’s version of the black lager. I can not suggest this beer for anything. However on a food related note, I noticed that when had with hot sauce it enhances the spice to a hiccup inducing amount. Live to drink another day and I hope that flavorful beers come your way but head this warning I say steer clear of this black lager in a major way and oh by the way happy holidays.
Abita Christmas Ale
Tis the season, for Christmas beers and what we have here is a failure of a beer. This is the beer you give to all the people on your shit list. First things first, I can’t think of any food that this beer would go well with. It is just too bitter to go well with most foods. Perhaps you could place it with chocolate but doing so would really only be to make the beer taste better as apposed to enhancing the experience. The beer smells like soy sauce and rye bread. The overall taste of the beer is of hops and that is about all the beer has to offer. The beer is common in taste and nothing really stands out about it. The hops flavor is slightly muted in the beginning but before the swig is over the bitter taste comes through in the end. The effervescence (carbonation) that I enjoy in beers is just not there. Dear Santa, due to China’s up and coming economy you might not like the price of coal so I have a way to help you when it comes to giving punishment gifts to bad boys and girls. This beer in their stockings is far worse than getting coal because they can use coal in their stoves and BBQ grills. This beer however is a punishment far worse because the bad boys and girls will be compelled to drink this punishment. So in closing, if you like bland bitter hoppy beer, then by all means enjoy this beer. However, this is not for me. As far as the Christmas beers go I don’t think that I am a real fan of any thus far, but I will keep drinking them and reporting my findings to you. In addition to that, my advice to all of you this season and for the year to come. Follow your gut feelings and what I mean is this. I was standing in the beer isle at my local grocer this Sunday there on a totally fluke matte and for whatever reason I started to hunt for the beer I was going to review for the week and after much deliberation settled on this beer. However I somehow knew that this beer would suck but I purchased it despite what I knew in my heart of harts. My rational was that it was Christmas time and I wanted to review beers that reflected the season and so here we are eight plus bucks out but really no worse for wear but still displeased with myself for not listening to myself when I knew it was going to suck. That is life I suppose, damned to screw ourselves despite out better judgment. I al just lucky that it was only a six pack. I can live with that mistake and try fore a nock out the park next time.
Anchor Brewing Company’s Christmas beer
Anchor Brewing Company’s Christmas beer
The wear is winding and as such, the multitude of brewers around the world start to deliver there holiday brews on all the little good little beer drinking boys and girls and to start thing off I have for you the 37th holiday brew from Anchor Brewery. For starters, the beer looks fantastic in the glass. Like gingerbread in the glass and acts like a “snake” firework. You know the one that when you light the puck looking firework it grows like a snake. This is what the head of the beer looks like in the glass. This is a really fantastic looking beer in the glass, however when you start to drink it it is less than fantastic. This is not one of those beers that you enjoy with food, and is just barely a good standalone beer. However, it is not without it’s merits. After the initial headiness of the beers goes away it takes on a sort of flat mellow quality that is smooth yet slightly bitter. The beer starts out excessively bitter and chills out as it has time to breath out some of the C02 and unwind. This unwound beer has a slight chocolate hops taste but it is muted by the smooth cream taste. This beer is not one that I would serve to my guest and in addition to that the beers cost is not in line with what I wanted to pay either. Ten dollars plus is not worth it in my book knowing what I know now about the taste of the beer but that is only my opinion. So enjoy this last run of the year and al of the beers that it has to offer. Just remember, not always is your favorite brewers seasonal of holiday beer selection of the highest quality. They only brew it once a year.
Imperial Lager
Harpoon GRateful Harvest Cranberry Ale
Gobble Gobble, I wanted to squeeze this one out at the beginning of the week so that you all can have ample time to think about what beer you are planning to have at Thanksgiving this year. On the chopping block this year (no offense “Tom”) is Harpoon’s (Grateful Harvest Cranberry Ale). Now before I start to rip on this bean town brew, let me just say that it does give one dollar per every six pack to “your local food bank” and that is good no matter how bad I think the beer is. Let me start by saying that this beer when put into a glass has more head on it than Herman Munster. This thing is thick baby and the head just hangs there like sea foam atop a rusty red ale ocean. I cannot taste any hint of cran at all. What I do taste is hops to the einth degree. Which traditionally ale beers have the hops taste as a sort of signature of the brew. However, if you are going to call it a cranberry ale the drinker should be able to taste the cranberry somewhere in the beer. Slapping a Thanksgivingesk sort of labile on a box with a smug looking turkey with pint glass in hand and saying that it is some sort of quintessential (insert your ideal Thanksgiving ingredient of choice) ale, does not a Thanksgiving ale make. This is not a fair representation of what an ale called cranberry ale should taste like. The bitter hops taste rides rough shot over and cranberry taste that might have beer there. Don’t be suckered in by the beers bio on the bottom of the box. I can tell you from experience, that the beer taste nothing like the box wishes it did. Perhaps this beer will go better with the true Thanksgiving meal. You know, turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potato pie, CRANBERRIES!!!!!! Of which I am happy to say that this year I will be participating in for the first time in a long time (thanks unique extended family situations). So win louse or draw, I will reevaluate this beer during my Thanksgiving this year and report to you in the day of or soon there after on how the beer went with food. On a family relations note, this beer has a ABV (alcohol by volume) of 5.9% so if you need a little liquid chill the Fa-la-la-la out to get through holiday time with your Fa-la-la-la family then this is the beer for you my friend. just sit back, relax and crack open some of this “crantastic ale” and let the fact that your in-laws can be self-riches hypocrite save the world DB’s slide right down the back of your reclined lazy-boy. Because just like a hangover, it will all come to an end soon enough, but in the mean time, you just got to sit back and take in all in stride. So stick that in your cornucopia and drink it.
Wittekerke white wheat beer
This beer is a fast drinker and i suppose that is because the taste is so refreshing that you can find yourself drinking two at a time and not thinking twice about it. This beer is a cloudy golden and refreshing Belgian Beer called WITTEKERKE. This is a white wheat beer and it is really just so nice to drink I am so glad that I decided to pick this one up. I would say that the beer is worth the nine plus dollars it cost. The beer goes well with fish and chicken. There is not much in my opinion that this beer would not be good with. You can taste the wheat followed by a subtle sweet taste and then a slight bitter bite at the end. This is just a well rounded, well put together beer. This is a must have in this holiday season, perhaps with some turkey? A side note, the can that the beer comes in has a strange feeling, one which adds to the overall drinking experience. Yes, I know this sounds reticules but trust me, this is an interesting tactual experience. Perhaps that is why the beer comes wrapped in plastic.
ENJOY, I DID.
Pinkus Jubilate Dark Lager
The smell of soy sauce is the firs thing the drinker will notice. Besides that, the drinker will also note the flat head and dirty look in the glass. However, as the beer sits in the open air the essence of the beer releases itself from the bottom of the glass upward to form a small head. This particular beer along with it’s soy sauce taste it also has a light choco coffee flavor with little to no carbonation effect on the tongue in the beginning but as the beer continues to sit in the open air it takes on a much more robust body and more of a carbonation in the mouth. As far as the beer going with food, I would say that although this beer comes from Germany the best food for this beer would be a good sweet and sour soup. However, that is a bit of a stretch. This unfortunately is just a so so beer from what I was hoping would be a powerhouse brewer from the fatherland. So to recap this beer from the Pinkus breweries, it is a no go in my book. You cant winn them all can you.
Xingu Black Lager Beer
As November shuts the casket on October’s Halloween and the true dark of winter starts to creep in to the world it is truly time to welcome the dark with this offering from Brazil of all places. I first ran into XINGU Black Lager Beer last year at the beer fest in Galveston and I have beer sitting on this gem for too long. This is a nice chaco treat for those of you who are still suffering from the sweet tooth of Halloween. This is perhaps the first beer I have dubbed as a dessert beer but (no pun intended) it takes the cake. The beer is versatile as well, it would go well with most rich foods like pot roast, salmon, goos or duck as well as chocolate ice cream. This is also a good camp fire sitter. There you are under the stars enjoying the contrast between the cold and heat and reminiscing of the year and drinking this beer. Just forget for just one moment that this beer is from south of the border, real south of the border. This is a well rounded beer that is truly deserving of your time and consideration and along with that, this beer is a real eyebrow raiser when it comes to impressing the guests. In closing, this beer is worth the price 11.04 a case is worth it.
Genesee Cream Ale
Pinkus Munster Alt
It is October and that means that it is Octoberfest time and this beer is a fabulous offering right out of Germany just in time for this holy time of the year for beer lovers. Right off the bat I will tell you that this beer is best with food. The best food you ask? German sausage and sauerkraut and where do you get all of this? The answer to the question to is Flying Saucer. Located downtown, this place is a beer lovers heaven. But now on to the beer. This particular beer has a sweet jasmine flower taste to it when you drink it as a standalone and is relatively flat in the carbonation department. However, when enjoyed with the food I mentioned above all the flavors mix so well together like they were meant to be the fats in the sausage play off the sweet almost smokey aftertaste of the beer. The alt style of which this beer is a mixing of two brewing styles, Lager and Ale. The two different styles of brewing which in my eyes are for all intents and purpose are contradictory, really do a nice job of mingling together in this aspect. The only sad thing about this beer is that it is not as well just as a standalone beer, to enjoy this beer to the fullest is with food and in this case it is German food. So while the weather is “nice” I urge you to get out to a place that serves this along with true German food. You will not be disappointed if you do.
Pumpkin Ale
Wow, the first beer review of the fall and I am giving to you all a beer that I first tried almost ten years before. I remember the experience like it was just last Sunday, it was a crisp fall afternoon just after 12pm (because you can’t buy beer or wine no Sunday before 12.) It was a magical afternoon shopping at the local grocer and sitting there in the cooler was an odd looking beer with a pumpkin on it. I being the adventures guy that I am took the gamble and it was a real hum-dinger. Now flash forward to today when I am on the lookout for new beers to try, I see this old classic sitting there in the cooler section. Be forewarned; as the autumn beer season emerges you will be inundated with “pumpkin Beers and Ale’s.” However, it is my opinion that this offering from Buffalo Bill’s Brewery is the pinnacle of pumpkin pouring pleasure when it comes to seasonal beers. This is a well balanced beer and as I mentioned in the last sentence, it is brought to us by Buffalo Bill’s Brewery which I have been blogging about all year. Perhaps I might not have a candidate for beer but perhaps for the first time, a brewery of the year? The beer is excellent for enjoying in the backyard contemplating what makes the birds know to fly south, or for that mater the North American Hobo migrate that way the same time every year. In addition to that, the beer is also fantastic for enjoying with food. My food picks are pork and chicken of most any types. The beer has that pumpkin taste with the beer bite at the end, it also has a refreshing flow through. The beer is just so well crafted from the ground up. please enjoy this beer, it is so good.
Beers and Friends
This is not so much a beer review as it is a tribute to a new friend. For those of you who follow my blog, I usually rip on anything from Anhiser Buch as specially Budweiser beer. However, I found that after a few days in the outback backpacking, a beer by any name is a good beer and this Budweiser was the best beer I have ever had after running around in the mountains with nothing to drink. This is for my new friend ED. As I have said that in the past, beer is made to be enjoyed. Beer is the great common denominator. After my backcountry adventure with my wife, we were back in base camp at Big Bend where the camp host was had greeted us when we first arrived invited me to come sit and have a beer with him. I was dead tired from the hike, but could not pass up the opportunity to sit and talk over a beer. What a magical idea to sit in nature and make a new friend all while enjoying a beer. Something so universal and common, yet so powerful in it’s ability to bring together strangers. So heres to beer, the friend maker. We might not be Budweiser or Coors fans, but we are all beer fans. We will always be able to put our differences aside for the beers we prefer when it comes to making new friends and enjoying a beverage called beer. Ed, thank you fro your hospitality during our stay at Big Bend and thanks for he Budweiser. it was the best dang beer I have ever had.
Beck"s Beer
Beck’s Beer
The beer of Germany and of German U-boat crews. Yes folks, this very beer that I now review is the same beer that 60 years before German U-boat crews were drinking as they patrolled the deep looking for floating targets. This beer is a good soled working persons beer. The beer is a little like a Heineken in the bitterness department but the strong wheat taste that in my opinion is the platform of any good beer comes in strong at the finish. For those of you out there that enjoy a good Heineken, I feel that this will be a good beer for you, in addition to that you will have a good history story to go along with it when you are trying to start a conversation dawn at the bar. To say this is a good solid beer really does do a good job at describing it. This is not by any stretch of the imagination a progressive beer sent to blow the market away in terms of the next big thing in beer, it is what it is and there is not much more to say. However, when paired with food the beer takes on a sweet taste that dwells on the bottom right and left sides of the lower jaw which is a much different flavor profile than when it is enjoyed as a standalone.
BL lime
The summer heat will soon be on the run and everyone will be saying gosh it is so cold I wish it were summer. So, in an attempt to beat you to the punch of wishing it were summer so you can start enjoying cold summer style beers once more. It is still summer now and this is a summer beer and the biggest shock is that this beer is from Anheuser-Busch of all brewers. Not to beat a dead horse here, but I for the most part am not a fan of the Anheuser-Busch line of product, it is my opinion that in the beginning perhaps they had a good beer however that is not the case now. Just look how they are having to switch up the style of there can. For the umpteenth time, it’s not whats on the can, it is whats in the can that is most important. Having said that, whats in this can or in this case bottle that has real strength as a social drinking beer. What I mean is everything about this beer is easygoing, this thing is smooth tasting with just a little lime taste at the end with a hint of salt, almost like a michelada but not quite. This is a very refreshing beer and is a safe bet for drinkers of Bud Light you can taste the standard Bud Light flavor which is perhaps the only detractor from the beer.
Lucky Beer
Straight from the worlds newest emerging superpower of all places China. I am not for the most part a fan of things that come out of china, however the beers thats that come from the country are legitimately good. After just a little googling about beer form China provides information which adds weight to my theory about Chinese beer in that the Chinese have been brewing beers for many hundreds of years. Perhaps this new revelation in brewing history will give the Egyptian culture which for the most part has been excepted as the first beer brewers a run for it’s money as being the first. My hunch is that if archeologist and historians begin to look hard at all primitive cultures the evidence of brewing will show itself. It seems that the process of brewing is a natural progression for most cultures. As for the beer under review tonight, this is a beer much like an on again off again relationship. At first I did not care for the beer it just was not up to par, it was just a lack luster offering. I feel that I was being too hard on the beer just because of the bottle. What I mean is that I really don’t care what the bottle looks like, it is whats inside that that is the most important and the bottle is well crafted, perhaps too well crafted. At first it was too bitter, then too sweet. The worst part of the beer is that from bottle to bottle there was little to no consistency which if you are going to build a following of beer drinkers you need consistency. The consumer needs to be able to make a decision when they see the beer sitting on the shelve. They need to be able to say oh that beer taste like that (blank) and that would be the best for this situation. As result if this brewer wants to become a profitable american import it will need to work on consistency. As for the beer itself after all I have just said, this being the last beer in the six pack the beer is slightly reminiscent of Shiner Smokehause with a sweet lager finish. The beer is a overall well rounded beer that is good with food and as a drinking beer. The beer is very effervescent which is a little more than I like and I like highly carbonated beer. As for the wow factor when it comes to serving this to guests this is a grate one to serve. The beer bottle speaks for itself, this is a conversation starter and a safe bet due to the fact that the flavor profile on this beer is not too out there and would be best with a wanton soup. The webpage (www.luckydrinkco.com) on the other hand really SUCKS in my opinion. One look at the page and you will just know what I am talking about. Is this a luxury car advertisement or a beer brewers webpage? Perhaps the most ridiculous of icons is the one on the far right “The path to enlightenment” where the brewer touts the beer as being brewed with pure drinkable water. As apposed to the all the other water there in China which is well...does any one remember the last summer Olympics and does anyone remember where they were held? Enjoy.
Carta Blanca Beer
At first when I started this six pack I did not care for the flavor. The first beer was bitter and uninspired at best and I thought that this beer was going to suck. However, the other night I was having Mexican food and having the Carta Blanca with it and fund that it went very well with the food. A con to this is that the beer go well with the Mexican food and I fear that it only will go with the Mexican and nothing more. As for the beer itself, it is ever so slightly bitter the whole way through with no change which is why it is not the best for just drinking, as for pairing the beer with food, yes it does go well with food, the Mexican food I discussed earlier in the piece. It is a middle to lower end beer and will not be making it into the beer of the year running. So enjoy or whatever you are going to do with this beer. I gave you all the info I can about this beer. This beer stinks like the debt ceiling.
Pearl Beer
“Texas Oldest Brewery” it says right on the can, if this is indeed the case it is time to freshen up the recipe. This beer just tastes old and un inspired. The best way I can describe this beer is that it is like what Loan Star use to taste like before it went off the market before it became the strong brand that it is today. An interesting thing about the brewery, is that it is brewed in Fort Worth which is the same place that Loan Star (which I love) is brewed. This is interesting because the water is what is the keystone of beer because it is the ingredient that is called for the most in every brew and it is also the one major ingredient that differs from region to region, state to state and texas does have some good H2O don’t it water boy. So if you like to drink in the god old days have at it with this slightly malty overly hoppy beer from the Texas.
Enjoy?
Red Hook WIT
Orange Blossom Cream Ale
I am going to come right out of the gate here and say that this brewery is a powerhouse in the brewing world. The Buffalo Bill Brewing Co has consecutively impressed me with it’s untraditional offerings. Case in point, this latest offering, an Orange Blossom Cream Ale and it is everything the bottle says it is. This is the beer of the summer if not the year! First off the the detractors of the beer and there are not many. The beer is a drinking only beer, due to the sweet taste profile of the beer it is limited to just a drinking beer, but what a drinking beer it is. This is like cream in the mouth, the taste is reminiscent of an French orange cream pastry and an orange cream-sicle with a alcohol after taste. The beer is a well rounded one from start to finish. The beers natural habitat is outside in the backyard on a summer afternoon, bottle sweating slightly in the sun. This is a social butterfly of a beer in that its taste is so different and conversation evoking. Pick this one up for all your summertime backyard BBQ’s and get togethers. despite the fact that the beer is only a drinker, I am adding it into the running for beer of the year.
Thanks to http://www.beermelodies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/BUFFALO-BILLS-ORANGE-BLOSSOM.jpg for the picture this time, I would have done it myself, but time, oh how it does run out so fast. Enjoy!!!
Ruby Redbird
The Perfect Summer Beer it says, well that is up for dispute. However, what is not up for dispute is that this beer is a unique offering from the Shiner Brewery. The beer boasts that it is brewed with Texas ruby red grapefruit and ginger. The primary taste is of ginger and no grapefruit so from a technical point of view the label should be switched. At first glance this beers sounds like it is only a good drinking beer. However as you drink this beer down the grapefruit does star to peek through towards the end. On further thought, this beer would be good with Asian broccoli and beef with ginger. This is a good conversation starter beer, when served to your guests you get to ask them what they think of the beer. This beer is a good attempt at pushing the boundaries of what beer can be and that is a good thing. This is what the world needs in a beer and for that matter, a beer company. However, this try just did not hit the mark as far as being a hit out of the park. However, this is what makes beer brewing an art that has lasted for hundreds of years, it is the continued hunt for something better, something new, something next.
Thanks to thehiddenlist.com and google.com for use of the picture.
Shiner Spring Ale
spring is here and that means a rebirth of everything including beers when I go through my local beer store I see new brews “springing” up everywhere. Case in point, this offering from Shiner Beer Co. it is Shiner spring Ale which is Dortmunder style which in actuality is a German lager that originated in the 19th century so the fact that Shiner says it is an Ale. The little rundown on the back of the bottle is an accurate one. You can taste the bite of an Ale with a hint of light sweetness at the end of the “swig” the light sweet taste is reminiscent of watered down clover honey like what one would find in meat which is a medieval alcoholic drink. The beer is refreshing and is good as a standalone and a food beer. The food of choice in my opinion is grilled chicken with grilled corn as well. Shiner has not broken any new ground in terms of taste or style here but has produced a solid spring time beer. This is not a beer that I would be apposed to drinking on a more regular basis.
Blueberry Oatmeal Stout
This year is not starting like I had expected in the way of getting beer reviews out to the people who do read this blog and for you who do, I thank you for your following me. As you know, I for the most part judge a beer as being good by it’s ability to be good as what I call a standalone and a food beer and when a beer does not fall into both of my categories I tend to dismiss the beer as being “good” and also exclude the beer form the beer of the year award. However, this winter has opened me up to excepting beers that don’t fit into both of my categories. Case in point, this offering from Buffalo Bill’s Brewery, which has been operating since 1983. This is a fine example of what I am talking about, be forewarned this beer is good for the winter and not much else, I am not a stout beer fan. However, for whatever reason this beer, an oatmeal stout brewed with blueberries “and other natural flavors” caught my eye from a bottom shelve in a non beer related part of my local grocer. This beer moved me so much that just before I went to checkout I felt I needed to walk back to the beginning of the store just to pick this one up. This is the the beer you sip as you sit inside in the dark on a stormy winter night as the temp drops outside which makes you want to stay inside all the more which gives you time to notice all the complexities of this beer. Like it’s chalk aftertaste or it’s strong robust initial flavor, the kind of flavor that only a mature individual can appreciate. As for the blueberry taste it is very slight if not at all, despite that fact the fact there is a sweat ending taste to that beer. Overall, this beer is the refined thinking mans beer, the kind of man who reads John Updike or J.D. Salinger books who putters around the house in a smoker jacket with a pipe in hand and who‘s gray hair is coming in so nicely. So to all you aging, I mean maturing beer afficionados out there enjoy.
A side bar: Buffalo Bill’s Brewery also brews another one of my favorites, (America’s Original Pumpkin Ale)
in addition to that, thanks to
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for the pic.
Raha & Sons Ugly Pug Black Lager
This beer is one I first ran into back in October at the Galveston beer festival, I had been hesitant to purchase this beer in the store due to the fact that it is a Texas beer; unfortunately the Texas brewers tend to go heavy on the hops which for the most part I don’t care for, so when I found this one, I kew this would be a revisit and here we are. The taste profile of this one is of subtleties. You can taste a light creaminess followed by a slight burnt coffee or noodles, you know that smell that comes off the pot as you try and clean it. I know that at first glance this sounds bad but just give it a try. In addition to that, the effervescent nature of this beer is nonexistent at best, but that is typical of black lagers. Due to the unique flavor profile of this beer I did not find any food that went well with it but I am sure that there are foods out there that do. As a parting note, the beer is a quick drinker, too quick. Enjoy!
( side note ) It took me so dang long to do this review that I am sick of this beer, for whatever reason to just took so long to get this done it has cursed me from the beginning of the year, damn this beer. I was so tired of this beer you done even get a PIC
Beer of the year
And the winner is, Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!
And hers why. Pabst Blue Ribbon was a dud back in the day and now just like Lone Star beer it has pulled itself up by the boot straps to sit proudly on your grocers cooler shelve. In addition to that the beer was good as a standalone and with food as well an so as a result, that is why PBR has made the belated beer of the year for 2010. So, sorry that it has taken so long to bring it to you.
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