This is a really nice beer. The color is a really beautiful, clear amber/red, with a very minimal, thin white head. Putting your nose in the glass gives away the 10% ABV immediately – the smell of alcohol is strong in ths one. Tasting is it a similar story. There’s a really nice, somewhat chewy [...]
I must say, I was very excited by this beer. A certified organic old ale at 9.7% – sounds great. Not too expensive, either. I have to say, though, it’s pretty disappointing. There’s some malt flavor there, and then a big gob of bitterness. Not the kind of hop bitterness that can be described as [...]
The HeBrew Jewbilation beers have always struck me as creative despite their strict rules: 1 ABV % point, 1 grain and 1 hop variety per year celebrated. It sort of seems similar to what KFB did with Excelsior! (née Manbearpig), except…different. Where we had no idea what our blend of however many different kinds of [...]
ABV: 17.5%, apparently.
There’s something fascinating about things as old as this. Granted it’s not a centuries-old bottle of wine or a 60-year Macallan. But this is a 14-year old beer, which is the oldest I’ve seen readily available and certainly the oldest I’ve consumed. This beer was brewed when I was [...]
Redhook Double Black Stout with Coffee (Limited Release)
ABV: 7.0%
IBU: 47
Pours a full, dark black with a foamy caramel-colored head. Heavy malt profile, with the fairly standard array of stout flavors: chocolate, toffee, coffee (made all the more intense as a result of coffee being added to the [...]
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