Brasserie Chouffe La Chouffe Blonde

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I am quite fond of Belgian beer. I have enjoyed Belgian beers all over the world. This Belgian beer is Brasserie Chouffe La Chouffe Blonde. This beer is 8% ABV. I have reviewed other Brasserie Chouffe beers. You should read about them. This Blonde beer pours a light orange/blonde color with a two-finger head. The aroma is fruity with citrus notes, sweet, and strong. The flavor is citrusy, sweet, with light yeasted notes, smooth, strong, and light-bodied. La Chouffe has a light to medium mouthfeel. This beer has a fruity and strong finish that fades steadily. Then comes a citrusy aftertaste. La Chouffe is good, but I think Delirium Blonde is better. With that said, I’d say La Chouffe Blonde is an A-. La Chouffe Blonde is lighter-bodied than Delirium without the spiced note you get from Delirium Blonde. Both are worth drinking. I recommend this one and Delirium Blonde. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to always enjoy responsibly! Cheers! 

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!

Divine Barrel Brewing Moving to Montana West Coast-Style IPA

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I was in the local pasta shop here in Charlotte, NC, Pasta and Provisions. They have a good selection of beer in their older location. I pick up Divine Barrel Brewing Moving to Montana. This beer is a West Coast-style IPA that is 6.8% ABV. It uses Citra, Simcoe, and Strata hops. This IPA pours a golden color with a one-finger white head. The aroma is citrus fruits, with bitterness, and slight berries. The flavor is grapefruit, bitterness, hops, and some light strawberry. This has a medium mouthfeel. Then this beer finishes with a dark bitterness and grapefruit. The aftertaste has a fading bitter grapefruit flavor. This is a good beer, a good IPA. But it is okay as a West Coast-style IPA. So I think Moving to Montana gets a B+. The west coast IPA is okay, but it is good for a regular American IPA. I would recommend Divine Barrel Moving to Montana West Coast-Style IPA. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly. 

Stone Brewing Co. Fear. Movie. Lions. Hazy Double IPA

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Almost five years ago, I first had Stone Brewing Fear. Movie. Lions. Hazy Double IPA. So I thought it was time for a re-review. This beer is 8.5% ABV with Loral & Mosaic hops. According to Stone, this is a cross between an East Coast IPA and a West Coast IPA. This IPA pours orange. It has a big, two-finger head. The aroma is bitter, withonions, slight orange, and grapefruit. The flavor is big oniony flavor. There is bitter grapefruit and orange. This has a fuller mouthfeel. Then this beer finishes with a bitter citrus and onion. The aftertaste is light on the onion and citrus, but the bitter hops flavor lingers. This double IPA is good, better than I remember; I gave it a B- last review. But now I think it is a B+. It is not a beer you could drink a lot of, and yes, it still comes in 16-ounce six-packs. I still recommend Stone Brewing Fear. Movie. Lions. It has a pleasant flavor that doesn’t taste like a double IPA too much. But you still would find it on the stronger side of the ABV scale. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Brouwerji Duvel Moortgat 6.66

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I have had Duvel before, but not the 6.66 version. This beer is a Belgian blonde with a 6.6% ABV and features six refined hop varieties. It also had malted barley and malted wheat. This beer pours yellow with a big three- finger head that fades into a one-finger white ring. The aroma is citrus, citrus peels, and it’s sweet. The flavor is sweet, faintly bitter, fruity, and orange. This beer doesn’t feel/taste as strong as orginal Duvel. This has a meduim mouthfeel. It then fininshes with a light citrus and a slight alcohol note. Aftertaste is mild with citrus fruit and some yeast easters. This 6.66 from Duvel is good and in my opinion a little better than the original Duvel. I recommend this one, its definitely an A. The fruity flavors help keep the strong nature of this Duvel down a bit making a pleasant drinking experience. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!