The Fish Guys Wild Ass Amber Ale
- Overall 88/100
- Appearance 21/25
- Aroma 21/25
- Taste 23/25
- Finish 23/25
The Fish Guys created the fine recipe for this Amber ale but it is brewed and bottled by the O’Fallon brewery located here in O’Fallon Mo. It carries a 6% ABV and is dry hopped with Williamette English hops and then aged in oak barrels.
This fine beer pours out a hazy brown color that creates an off white head that laces the glass. The aroma is rather pleasing as it a nice balance of caramel, and hops. When tasting this beer I found it to be very well balanced between the caramel malts, and hop finish. It is actually very refreshing with a nice mouthfeel and I would consider it to have a medium body to it.
This beer is only going to be available for a limited time so if you are lucky enough to live in the St.Louis area try and track it down. I found my 6 pack at Friar Tucks on Highway K.
In: Beer Reviews, Beer of the Week
Beach Bum Blonde Ale
- Overall 79/100
- Appearance 17/25
- Aroma 19/25
- Taste 21/25
- Finish 21/25
This summer seasonal is brewed by Anheuser Busch located here in my neck of the woods, St.Louis Mo. It has a modest 5.4% ABV, and is brewed with Hallertau, and Cascade dry hops.
This blonde of course pours out a golden hue with a thick head however it doesn’t lace and disappears rather quickly. The aroma is subtle with hints of spice, honey, and a bit of piney hops. The taste of this ale starts off with some sweet honey and, caramel, and pale malts. It finishes up with a slight bitter dry hop taste from those Hallertau and Cascade hops.
Overall this is actually a pretty decent beer from Anheuser. I would go and get another 6 pack of this anytime. Pick it up before winter gets here because like I said before it is a summer seasonal!
Cheers!
New Belgium Sunshine Wheat
- Overall 82/100
- Appearance 20/25
- Aroma 17/25
- Taste 23/25
- Finish 22/25
This summer seasonal is brewed by the New Belgium brewery located in Fort Collins CO, and it has a 4.8% ABV.
This wheat beer pours out a silky golden color while producing a creamy head that laces the glass. The aroma of this beer is a nice hodge podge of some mild spice, oranges, and a hint of lemon. Tasting this beer was the true treat as it was very smooth and refreshing. The initial taste of this beer consists of oranges, and lemons while it finishes up very crisp with a hint of wheat, and citrus.
I would recommend you pick this beer up before it is to late as it would compliment any warm summer day.
Cheers!
In: Beer Reviews, Summer Beers, Wheat Beers/Hefeweizen's
Left Hand Brewery 400 Pound Monkey
- Overall 59/100
- Appearance 17/25
- Aroma 18/25
- Taste 12/25
- Finish 12/25
This English style IPA is brewed at of Longmont CO at the Left Hand Brewery and it has a 6.7% ABV. This beer got selected because of its fun name, and because Left Hand has typically produced a good beer.
This IPA pours out a nice golden copper color with an off white head that laces the glass. The aroma is a nice balance of floral hops, and some sweet biscuit malts. The taste of this beer is where it fell on its face however as it has an overpowering bitter hop taste from start to finish. There are hints of front in it but overall I got a good kick to the teeth and it didn’t taste good.
This in my opinion is another example of a beer with a cool name, that falls short on taste. I would not pick this beer up again and wouldn’t recommend you do either.
In: Beer Reviews, IPA's
Lagunitas Cappucino Stout
- Overall 96/100
- Appearance 23/25
- Aroma 23/25
- Taste 25/25
- Finish 25/25
This fabulous Lagunitas stout is brewed out of Petaluma CA. It is a limited release and packs a healthy 8.3% ABV.
When pouring out this beer makes a sugar brown color that leaves a light brown lace on the glass from the head. The aroma of this beer is all coffee as the Sebastopol Hardcore Coffee really comes through, there is also a hint of caramel, and dark chocolate. This stout is very smooth and carries hints of caramel, and dark chocolate within the coffee taste. The finish of this beer surprised me as it was rather bitter with a hoppy finish. I actually found this beer to get better as it got warmer.
Well needless to say Lagunitas came through again with this fine beverage. To date this is hands down the best coffee stout I have had. Tell you the truth I don’t even like coffee, or cappucino’s. I would recommend you pick this one up before it is to late. I really don’t think you will de disappointed, I sure wasn’t.
In: Beer Reviews, Stouts
Sierra Nevada Summerfest
- Overall 86/100
- Appearance 21/25
- Aroma 20/25
- Taste 22/25
- Finish 23/25
Sierra Nevada brews this fine summer seasonal Pilsner out of Chica CA, and it has a 5%ABV. High expectations were to be had early on due to all the other fine beers that I have had from this wonderful brewery. Did this one live up to the ecpectations? Lets find out…
This Pilsner pours out a typical golden color with a thick head that laces on the glass. The aroma is also pleasing to the schnoz as it has a spicy peppery hop scent as well as some sweet malty and grainy flavors. Tasting this beer was no disappointment either as it was very well balanced as well as crisp, and refreshing. The inital taste was all malty sweetness while it finishes up very crisp, and clean with some slightly bitter spicy hops and a hint of lemons.
Needless to say I still haven’t had a bad beer from Sierra Nevada. This brewery is in my top five favorite breweries and I would suggest you try this beer as well as anything else they have to offer because they do not disappoint. Pick this one up before summer is over!
Cheers!
In: Beer Reviews, Summer Beers
Well’s Banana Bread Beer
- Overall 88/100
- Appearance 22/25
- Aroma 23/25
- Taste 23/25
- Finish 23/25
This interesting beer has a5.2% ABV, and is brewed by Well’s and Young’s brewery which is located in Bedford UK that was established in 1876. When I saw this beer I was quick to pick it up as I love some banana bread, needless to say high expectations were had.
Initially while being poured out I found it to have a nice copper color with a decent head that left a nice lace on the glass as a quality beer will do. The aroma didn’t disappoint either as it smelled just like banana bread, slightly watered down yet spicy but banana bread none the less. The taste of this beer was also very good as it carries a nice medium mouthfeel and was quite tasty. I found it to also carry some spicy and malty tones that balanced rather well but overall this is banana bread in the liquid form.
Needless to say I was not let t down. This is a wonderful beer and I would recommend you pick it up. I think I would even drive the 45 min again to pick up some more as I had to cross the state border to find.
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Samuel Adams Octoberfest
- Overall 89/100
- Appearance 23/25
- Aroma 22/25
- Taste 22/25
- Finish 22/25
This great beer is brewed by the Boston Brewing Company in Boston Ma and has a 5.4% alcohol pct. One thing I would like to be up front about is that I am a bit biased towards this beer, I look forward to it every year and drink several six packs while waiting for Samuel Adams Winter Lager, and Holliday Porter.
This beer pours a wonderful copper/amber color and produced very good head, and being that it is such a good beer it did leave lace on the glass while I was enjoying it.
This is a very malty beer and according to Sam Adams website it is brewed with five, yes five different malts. This beer was very easy to drink and carried a caramel, and toffee taste to it. I would say it is a medium bodied beer and it really does carry a great balance all the way through to the finish.
This beer is only available for the fall season so get it before it is to late you will not be disapointed!
In: Beer Reviews, Fall Beers, Samuel Adams
Miller Lite
- Overall 74/100
- Appearance 19/25
- Aroma 15/25
- Taste 20/25
- Finish 20/25
This beer is brewed at the Miller Brewing Co in Milwaukee WI, and has a 4.1% ABV. It is available year around in anything from a 24oz can to a 30 pack, and to be honest I never really gave this beer a chance because I am a loyal Anheuser guy being from St.Louis, looks like I should have listened to my friend Bo because this is his beer of choice.
When pouring this beer out it was your typical lager, golden color decent head, and not much of an aroma. Now to the taste, the reason I bought this beer is because I kept seeing the commercials for the triple hops brewing method and it had me intrigued. Well guys and gals believe it or not you can actually taste the hops in the finish of this beer and it has me hooked. I am very impressed with this beer it is smooth and crisp like you would expect but when most lagers end this one just begins.
Long and short all i’m saying is give this beer a try even if you are a diehard Anheuser guy like I am, I really don’t think you will be disappointed…I wasn’t.
