Town Brewing Co. & Rhino Market & Deli Very Rhino IPA

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A Very Rhino IPA is a collaboration between The Rhino Marke & Deli and the Town Brewing Company. This IPA, which is 6.2% ABV, was purchased at the South Park Charlotte location of the Rhino Market. This IPA pours a bright yellow color with a two-and-a-half-finger white head. The aroma is tropical fruit, hoppy, and lightly bitter. The flavor is of juicy tropical fruit, citrus fruits, and bitterness. This beer has a barely medium feeling in the mouth. This IPA has a nice bittering fruit finish. This IPA has a semi-sweet aftertaste. The aftertaste is juicy, hoppy fruit flavors. This is a good IPA, B, in my opinion. It has a balanced flavors of hoppy with tropical flavors. I would recommend this Very Rhino IPA. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Brewers at 4001 Yancey & Victory Brewing Sunny Monkey Belgian-Style Sour

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Sunny Monkey is a collaboration between Brewers at 4001 Yancey and Victory Brewing. Victory from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which is one half of Brewers at 4001 Yancey here in Charlotte, North Carolina. The other being Six Point Brewing. Sunny Monkey is part of Victory’s Monkey beer. This is a Belgian Sour with Coriander and Guava that is brewed here in Charlotte. This beer is 4.5% ABV. This sour beer pours a slightly hazy yellow with a three finger white head. The aroma is tropical fruity with some sweetness & spices. The taste is tropical guava fruit, sweet with spices. The beer is overall a light feeling beer. This beer has a sweet tropical finish that is bright and refreshing. The aftertaste is the same as its finish but with an additional tart spice note. This Sunny Monkey is an A. I recommend this Sunny Monkey beer. It is a easy drinker and refreshing. It is not overly tart or sour. It has the right amount. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Fonta Flora Brewing X Half Acre Beer Co. Wolf Spit Baltic-style Porter

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Wolf Spit is this collaborative beer from Fonta Flora in Nebo, North Carolina, and Half Acre in Chicago, Illinois. Wolf Spit is a Baltic-style Porter made with Shagbark Hickory wood. This Porter is 8.5% ABV. This Shagbark wood is commonly found in the eastern United States. This beer pours a black color with a dark two-finger beige/brown head. The head is slow to fade. The aroma is malty, earthy, bitter, and smoky. The flavor is again earth, malty, bittersweet, and smoky on the back of the tongue/mouth. This beer is full feeling in the mouth. The finish is smoky and slightly bitter with faint roasted notes. The aftertaste is less smoky. This beer is not like a campfire smoke. Then you get some baking chocolate flavor to the aftertaste. This beer is not terrible. This beer is a B-. I found the smoky and earthy flavors to clash a bit. This beer is good. I might go back to Wolf Spit. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Co. Slough Water American Porter with Coffee

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I have another Burial Beer Co. Beer. This one is Slough Water coming in at 5.9% ABV. This is an American Porter with coffee. This beer has barley, oats, triticale (a hybrid of wheat and rye), and roasted malts. This porter is conditioned on Methodical Coffee’s Guatemalan Lxlam, Costa Rican La Pastora beans. This dark beer pours a black color with a two-finger beige head. The aroma is bitter, sweet, coffee, roasted, and malty. The beer’s flavor is close to its own aroma. It’s bittersweet, malted, roasted coffee with a bit of molasses. This beer has a full feeling in your mouth. This porter has a bitter coffee-roasted finish. That leads to a faint bittersweet aftertaste. This Burial Beer Co. Slough Water is an A. It isn’t overpowering or thick. It has a good balance of tasty flavors. If you like dark beers with coffee then this is your beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Co. Skillet Donut Stout

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Burial Beer Co., Skillet Donut Stout makes this beer in Asheville, North Carolina. This beer is 8% ABV. This is an oatmeal Stout with lactose, coffee, nine barley malts, a scoop of oats, molasses, and milk sugars. The coffee comes from Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Columbia. This stout pours a deep, black, thick, with a two-finger creamy beige head. The aroma is bittersweet, malty, roasted, and deep. The flavor is roasted coffee, and bittersweet malt, with a syrup flavor. There is a full feeling in the mouth. Then you get a bitterness with a rounded sweetness and coffee for a finish. The aftertaste is like coffee with cream that lingers just a little. This beer may sound like a big beer, but it drinks like it isn’t. This beer is good, I give this Skillet Donut Stout an A+. You should be drinking this beer. It would go well with a nice chocolate dessert, waffles, French toast, or pancakes. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Edmund’s Oast Brewing Company Special Dark Czech-Style Dark Lager

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!This beer from Edmund’s Oast Brewing Company in Charleston, South Carolina, is Special Dark. Special Dark is a 5.5% Czech-Style Dark Lager. This beer is not a year-round beer. This dark beer pours almost deep black with a two-finger beige head. The aroma is beady, malted with light sweetness and a coffee scent. The flavor is malty, sweet, and bready, with bitterness on the back of the mouth. The flavor is light overall. This beer has a somewhat medium feel in the mouth. This beer has a light bittersweet malt finish. Then you find a bittersweet coffee aftertaste that doesn’t linger. This is okay, but I found it to have lighter flavors that aren’t bad on their own but not together. All the flavors together give this beer a C+. I would like this beer to have more hardier flavors. So that together would make the whole beer a little better. I wouldn’t rush right out for this beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Sugar Creek Brewing Company Path to Enlightenment West-Coast IPA

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We’re back after nearly a month off. I have been participating in dry January. No alcohol or non-alcoholic stuff. I find NA beer to be no good. This local Charlotte, North Carolina beer from Sugar Creek Brewing Company, Path to Enlightenment West-Coast IPA. This is a new beer from Sugar Creek that is 7% ABV. It won the bronze medal for American IPA at the 2023 U.S. Open Beer Championship. This IPA has a combination of Mosaic and Simcoe hops. This IPA pours a golden color with a one-finger white head. The head does quickly fade in decent lacing. The aroma is citrusy, grassy, little malt note, and hoppy. The flavor is where the malt is more pronounced, and you’ll find grapefruit, citrus, and grassy notes. The bitter/hoppy notes are more on the back of the tongue and as it passes the tongue. The beer has a medium feel in the mouth. Then this IPA finishes with a bitter, gassy, grapefruit flavor. The aftertaste is a bit like a malty grapefruit that lingers for a bit before fading as you take the next sip. This west-coast IPA is very similar to others in this beer style. The malt notes do help this beer stand out a bit, giving this Path to Enlightenment West-Coast IPA a B. I do recommend this beer if you are an IPA fan. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Fatty’s Beer Works High Style Italian Pilsner

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This High Style Italian Pilsner beer is from Fatty’s Beer Works in Charleston, South Carolina. This beer is made with Pilsner Malt, and Hallertau Mittelfrüh (the Kaiser of German hops). This beer is dry-hopped with Tettnang hops. This beer is 5% ABV. Fatty’s Beer Works is named after the brewery’s founder’s college nickname given to him by his fraternity brothers at Clemson University. This beer pours a golden color with a bright white two-and-quarter-finger head. The aroma is light hop note, lemon/white grape, and bread crust. The flavor is white grape, bread crust, light bittering notes (towards the back of the tongue), and tartness. This beer feels light on the pallet. This pilsner finishes with a light bitter note and some slight fruity flavor. The aftertaste is faintly tart and clean. This is a beer is one that I could go right back to over and over. I give High Style an A+. It should not be missed, I highly recommend this beer from Fatty’s Beer Work. It has an overall clean and balanced flavor and it is delicious. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Celebration Fresh Hop IPA

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This beer from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is Celebration Fresh Hop IPA. This beer is 6.8% ABV and is seasonally available from October through December with its Caramel Malts. This beer uses hops that haven’t been dried. This IPA pours a red/orange color with a two-finger white stead head. The aroma is piney, malted, hoppy, and citrus-fruited. The flavor is bitter, piney, orange/grapefruit, malty and hoppy. This beer has a medium body. Then it has a pine orange/grapefruit bitter finish. The aftertaste is less piney, but the bitterness intensifies and lingers with a bit of malted flavor. I have had this on many times before. I remember the first time I thought Celebration was so good and it still is. I think Celebration Fresh Hop IPA is an A+. I always look for it around Christmas time and you should too! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! cheers!

Devils Logic #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout

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This local Devil’s Logic Brewing (Charlotte, North Carolina) beer is #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout. This stout is 5.4%. Devil’s Logic conditions this beer on Enderly Coffee Company’s Brazilian roast. This beer pours a black color with a steady two-finger tan head. The aroma is sweet with chocolate, malty, and a roasted coffee smell. The taste is sweet, roasted coffee, chocolate, malted, and oatmeal. This dark stout has a medium body. Then this beer finishes with a sweet roasted chocolate flavor. The aftertaste is roasted chocolate coffee. This beer is not as full on with the flavors but they are good. I give #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout a B-. The flavors are medium and not as strong as other beers like this one. I’d still recommend it for the fact that it is good and not so big on the ABV. It is well-balanced in flavor. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!