Orange to amber colour, clear with a pinky sized, bubbly white head that is reduced to a thin soapy lacing after a few seconds. Huge smell of banana that’s like those banana marshmallow sweets. Some mild vanilla mixed in with some bread & mild hints of alcohol at the back too. Banana flavours dominating but also a taste of bread is slightly stronger than the nose indicated. There is a mild bitter finish that is very slightly skunky tasting. A smooth beer with a medium body and a slight fizz on the tongue. It has a nice dry & clean finish. Nice as a one off but isn’t the type of beer I would go back to. It made for an interesting drink and...
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It pours with an average sized head that disappears almost immediately. Not a problem for me. I want my bock to be refreshing. It needn’t be heady. The colour is a deep amber brown. It’s almost the exact colour of a coke. The smell is of wet grains left sitting out. It tastes nice and malty, but refreshing at the same time. It is a wonderful bock. It tastes like there’s probably some adjunct in it. I taste no hops in this beer. It’s all about the malt and it’s a somewhat nice malt flavour too. Light, with a bit of a macro-brew bad beer taste, but clearly a step above. There’s something special about this beer. A certain je ne sais quoi that...
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The Bohemian Brewery is a Microbrew Brewpub Craft Brewery in the Salt Lake City valley brewing traditional European Style Lagers (Czech & German/Bavarian) with a great European style restaurant, patio and tavern serving traditional European dishes. I recently got a chance to take a tour of the brewery and taste of their fabulous food offerings. For a state that prides itself on wacky liquor laws and low percentage beer, Utah has some incredible local breweries including well known brands Uinta, Wasatch, and Squatters .  But for those who haven’t had the opportunity to try Bohemian’s incredibly flavorful beers, let me tell you this, you are certainly missing out on some of the best beer brewed in Utah. The Bohemian Brewery is a family operated...
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It’s July, how ’bout a Rahr Snowmageddon? This American Double / Imperial Stout is definitely stout-y.  Dry with lots of roasted malt flavor, not exactly sure why this is an American Double as compared to a Foreign Export, perhaps it’s the hops peeping through in the finish.  Perhaps it’s just not dry enough. Although hops definitely make an appearance and skew the taste a bit; dry roasted malt is definitely the prominent palate filler here.  The mouth-feel is medium but seems even thinner, I don’t know why but stouts often seem too thin to me.  The carbonation is medium but definitely skewing low. Considering it’s an American Double Stout, it’s actually pretty darn smooth and perhaps a little simple.  Not that there is necessarily...
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Pours a super-pitch-black color. You can’t ask anything else from the thick looking, inky body of this beer. Dark khaki head sits at a finger and a half, and it looks frothy and lovely. Surprising head retention too, given how alcoholic this beer is. The only reason that it doesn’t get a 5.0 is because it doesn’t measure up in head activity from the few 5.0 appearance imperial stouts I’ve had. Great looking beer. Let me preface this paragraph with the following point: I’m known as a hater on Southern Tier’s “candy” imperial stouts. I find Choklat, Creme Brulee, etc. to be terrible, cartoonish novelties of beers. They’re tasty, sure, but they are artificial and overdone. Having said that, this beer smells how Southern...
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Yuengling is America’s oldest brewery and was established in 1829 by David G. Yuengling. He came to America from Germany for the same reason all other immigrants make that arduous trip: to reap the benefits of the American dream and create a legacy that would live on after he was gone. I have had the opportunity to try two of Yuengling’s offerings: Yuengling Lager and Yuengling Light Lager and man, am I glad that David made the trip to America to hoc his brew! Unfortunately for most Americans, unless you have to opportunity to make it to the eastern coast (specifically NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE, DC, WV, VA, NC, SC, TN, AL, GA or FL) you will be unable to obtain the magical...
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This thing’s happy to see me. Frothing at the neck and almost oozing up after popping the cap. HUGE 4-finger head. Soap suds? Nope, more like packed powder…ice cream soda…root beer float…lemon meringue on HGH…laces back nicely also. Honey opaque body with ample, quickly-rising carbonation. Soapy hop presence with balance of floral and citrus (grapefruit…what else)? character in abundance. This dissipates and is replaced with tight, electric Belgian-esque yeast and blonde malt. Nice, clean Belgian pale feel to this – slight Pilsener-ish tone to what come off as piney hops with additional citrus tones and electricity from this yeast strain. A little disjointed but complex for its weight class. Hits the palate cleanly with a husky grain theme and the Belgian creaminess of the...
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Faithfull Ale–brewed to celebrate Pearl Jam’s twentieth anniversary and their album Ten–opens with a rich, yeasty nose, smelling of fresh baked wheat breads, mixed with toast crusts and wet wheat stalks. The nose is almost entirely grain and bread, but thin threads of sugar do come through in the form of light grapefruits, touches of brown sugar, and the faintest hint of currants, the latter lending a barely perceptible currant jam overtone to the aromas. As a whole the nose is decent, but not necessarily revelatory or enticing in the way that many Dogfish Head beers are, and is perhaps overly-heavily grain-based. On the tongue, the beer opens with the same grain-based flavors as were present in the nose–fresh wheat breads, toast crust, biscuit–but...
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