Stone Brewing Buenaveza Salt and Lime Lager

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I had Stone Brewing Buenaveza Salt and Lime Lager at Laguardia Airport. As I drank this lager, I thought to review it. This lager is 4.7% ABV, and they use Liberty hops, salt, and lime. This beer is a Mexican-style lager. This lager pours a clean gold with a one-finger, quickly fading white head. The aroma is salt and lime. The taste is light, biscuity, salty, and limey. This beer has a light mouthfeel. The finish is salted and limey. The aftertaste is light saltiness and lime. This beer is an easy drinker. I give Beunaveza an A+. This is a good warm-weather beer. It would go great with tacos or on its own. I highly recommend it. It is light enough to be sessionable or crushable. It doesn’t have too much sweetness like some lagers. This would be a beer I would keep in the refrigerator, and you should too. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly!

Southern Range Brewing Co. Energizer Blonde Vanilla Coffee Blonde Ale

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I like a coffee blonde ale, and my favorite is Wooden Robot Brewery’s Good Morning Vietnam. I used that as a benchmark for other coffee blondes. This beer is Southern Range Brewing Co. Energizer Blonde Vanilla Coffee Blonde Ale. This ale is 5.4% ABV and brewed in Monroe, North Carolina, with coffee and vanilla. This ale pours blonde with a one and a half finger white sticky head. It leaves behind nice lacing in the glass. The aroma is light vanilla and mostly coffee notes. The flavor is coffee, faint vanilla, and light bitterness. This ale is not great in flavor. It clashes and has a light black pepper taste. This beer has a sweet and bitter finish with roasted coffee notes that all still come across as peppery. The aftertaste is fading coffee and vanilla. I would not have Energizer Blonde. I give it a D. It is like bad vanilla-flavored coffee. The bitterness doesn’t help either. I do not recommend this Southern Range Beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Town Brewing Co. Western Sky American Wheat Ale with Blood Orange

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Town Brewing Co. Western Sky is produced here in Charlotte, North Carolina. This 5.6% ABV beer is an American Wheat Ale with blood oranges. This is a spring wheat seasonal beer. This ale pours orange/yellow with a one-finger white head. That head does not stay long. The aroma is fruity with blood oranges, and it has a sweetness. The flavor is wheated, orange, sweet, and there is a light bitter note. This has a lighter mouthfeel. The finish is bittersweet oranges and a light tart flavor. There is a fruity aftertaste of blood orange that steadily fades with some light sweetness that ends with a tiny bitter note. Western Sky is a delicious wheat ale. I am a big fan of blood oranges. So this beer is an A. Great beer for spring and warmer weather. I really recommend Town Brewing Co. Western Sky. All of the flavors come together very nicely and ends up with a fabulous beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers! 

Legion Brewing Sunny Disposition West Coast IPA

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The store shelves are filled with IPAs. It seems like more than half of the beer on store shelves is an IPA of some sort. Sunny Disposition is a 7.2% ABV West Coast IPA from Legion Brewing here in Charlotte, North Carolina. Legion is one of my top breweries here. They make great-tasting beers. This IPA pours a deeper yellow with an almost two-finger white head. The aroma is slightly malty, with notes of onion, light grapefruit, and bitter notes. The flavor has notes of onion and a malty backbone. There is bitterness and grapefruit. This has a light mouthfeel. This IPA finishes with a bitter malt flavor and fruity bitterness. The aftertaste is light malt and onion flavor that fades rather quickly. The bitterness sticks around. This beer is okay, and I’ve had better versions of a West Coast IPA. Sunny Disposition is a C. It’s average, and I wouldn’t run out after this Legion Brewing beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Birdsong Brewing Co. Czech It Out, Czech-Style Dark Lager

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Birdsong Brewing Co.’s Czech It Out is the second Czech-style dark lager this week. This lager is 5.5% ABV with Bohemian Pilsner. Vienna Chocolate Malt Blackprinz malts. There are Galena and Sazz hops. This dark lager is only available mid January through February. This beer is still on store shelves. I purchased this at my local Total Wine. This dark lager pours black with a one-finger beige head that quickly fades. The aroma is dark, bready, and malty. The flavor is malty, breaded, and on the heavy side. This beer has a light roast and a light bitterness. This beer has a medium mouthfeel. Then this lager finishes with a bitter, bready note. The aftertaste is lightly roasted, with some malted flavors. Czech It Out is better than Burial Beer Co.’s Precious. This beer is a C-. The flavor was a little heavier. This beer had a little more roasted malt flavor. I don’t think I’d recommend it, or run back to this beer. I am not quite sure I like Czech dark lagers. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! cheers!

Burial Beer Co. Precious Czech-Style Amber

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Precious from Burial Beer Co. in Asheville, North Carolina, is a Czech-style amber lager. This lager is 4.9% ABV. This beer is hopped with Czech Saaz and Adeena hops. This lager pours a light brown/amber color with a one-finger off-white head. The aroma is malty and bread-like, with rye and a light sweetness. The flavor is breaded, malty, a rye flavor, light, and smooth. This has a light mouthfeel. Then this beer finishes with an off-flavor of malts. The aftertaste is rye bread and malts that linger. But as the aftertaste lingers. That is not great. I found this Precious to be interesting when I bought it, but after tasting it, it wasn’t so interesting. I give this amber lager a D+. I was able to finish a pint, but I didn’t like it as much. The flavors are not so good, but not the worst I’ve had. I don’t recommend this beer, nor will I rush back to have this one again. I usually like the beer that comes from Burial Beer Co. But this one was too rustic tasting for my liking. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!