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Josephs Baur Brewing Company Stockyard Oatmeal Stout

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This Stockyard Oatmeal Stout is from Josephs Baur Brewing Company in San Jose, California. Josephs Baur Brewing Company Trader Joe’s beer brewing operation. This ber is 5.2% ABV. This is in the traditional Irish Stout style. This Stout pours black with a two-finger beige head that fizzes away quickly. The aroma is sweet, with coffee, roasted notes, and malts. The flavor is similar to the aroma. There are flavors of light coffee, sweetness, roasted malts, and a weird ash-like taste. Yes, I know what ash tastes like. This beer is medium on the mouth. Then it comes to a semi-sweet and light roasted finish. The aftertaste is okay. It is roasted malt there. I’ve had better Oatmeal Stouts than this Stockyard. Samual Smith Oatmeal Stout is way better than this. This Stockyard Oatmeal Stout is a D+. I did finish this beer but I didn’t think is was great. It’s a boring light on flavor type of oatmeal stout. I really didn’t feel much of the oats on this stout. I would not drink this. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Dirty Bull Brewing Company Bangers Only Hazy IPA

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This beer from Durty Bull Brewing Company is Bangers Only. This hazy IPA is brewed in Durham, North Carolina with Strata and Nectron hops. This beer is 7% ABV. Banger Only Hazy IPA pours a hazy yellow with a three-finger white head. The head is steady to fade but does leave minimal lacing behind. The aroma is citrusy (orange/tangerine(, bitter, and hoppy. The flavor is citrusy with peach, orange, tangerine, and light nectarine. This beer is also hoppy, bitter, and smooth. This IPA has a medium feel on the mouth. This IPA finishes smooth with bitter citrus. The aftertaste is lightly citrusy and bitter. This Bangers Only Hazy IPA is good, and it gets a B. The peach, nectarine, and oranger flavors are interesting together. I would recommend this beer. It did not wow me, but it was good. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Legal Remedy Brewing Co. World Court Mocha Blonde Stout

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This beer from Rock Hill, South Carolina, is World Court. This is a Mocha Blonde Stout from Legal Remedy. This beer is made with Knowledge Perk Coffee and white chocolate. This beer is 6% ABV. This stout pours a deeper yellow/orange color with a one-finger white head. The aroma is sweet with chocolate. This beer has some light coffee notes. The taste is chocolate, sweet, and smooth. The coffee flavor is faint, and I think the chocolate covers over it. This beer has a medium feel to the mouth. This beer finishes with a light coffee roast and chocolate taste. The aftertaste is more chocolate than anything else. This mocha blonde stout is okay. I would say it’s a C+. The coffee gets lost in the white Chocolate. But this is not the worst, and yes I would recommend it, but don’t seek it out! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Beak and Skiff Apple Orchards Double, Double, Toil and Trouble Candy Corn Hard Cider

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I usually don’t drink and review hard ciders, but I don’t mind them. This particular Hard Cider is Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble Candy Corn Hard Cider from Beak and Skiff Apple Orchards in Lafayette, New York. This was a Halloween gift from my Neighbors. This hard Cider is 6.9% ABV. This beverage has hard cider (apple), sugar, natural flavors (whatever that is and it is not explained), sulfates (to keep it fresh), and carbonation. This hard cider pours a gold color with no head. The aroma is syrupy, sweet, appley, and crisp. The flavor is cloyingly sweet, with candy corn syrup, apples, and marshmallows. This cider has a light feel to the mouth. This hard cider finishes with a candy corn syrup-like taste with a light apple flavor. This aftertaste is sweet and syrupy. This cider is not terrible, but the flavor is cloyingly sweet. I give Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble Candy Corn Hard Cider a low C-. It almost got a D+, but the initial flavor is not terrible. Beak and Skif just made that sweetness a little too much. Plus I don’t think candy corn is universally like. I know I don’t like it. So don’t have this Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble Candy Corn Hard Cider. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

New Anthem Bree Project Radical Son American Pale Ale

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This is Radical Son an American Pale Ale from New Anthem Beer Project in Wilmington, North Carolina. This beer is 5.5% and brewed with Amarillo, Centennial, and Simcoe hops. This pale ale pours yellow with a two-finger white head. That head is slow to dissipate. The aroma has a rye-like spice to it. I don’t think they are using rye here. There is a bitter aroma that is slightly grassy. The flavor is rye, bitter (grass/piney, and hoppy towards the back of the mouth. This pale ale has a medium feel to the mouth. Then this beer has a light rye bitter finish. Then you get an aftertaste of light grassy bitter notes, that do not stick around long. This beer is a little below average, getting a C-. I didn’t like the rye and grassy flavors together. I like them each on their own. I wouldn’t go for Racial Son, it was not great. But was it the worst? No, but it’s just not good. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Bright Italian-Style Pilsner

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Italian-style pilsners are simply German-style pilsners that have been dry-hopped with European hops. This maximizes the aroma without adding/imparting bitterness. This Italian Pilsner is Bright from Burial Beer in Asheville, North Carolina. This Burial Beer does not have such a long name like most of their beer. This beer has a yellow color with a three-finger steady white head. The aroma has a light bitterness to it with some sweet notes. The flavor is light with some sweet notes. The flavor of this beer is thin and crisp. It does have a refreshing quality to it. This Italian-style pilsner has a light feel in the mouth. This beer has a crisp bitter/sweet finish that lingers into the aftertaste. The aftertaste is slightly thin. Burial Beer Bight is not a terrible beer, I give this beer A B-. The dry-hopping has added a little bitterness, to this which is not terrible, but it is also not great. I would recommend Bight Italian-style pilsner. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers

Hi-Wire Brewing x Wickles Pickle Beer

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Pickles aren’t something you think of when you think about beer, but they do go with beer or food that you would have along with beer. This beer is a collaboration between Hi-Wire Brewing in Asheville, North Carolina, and Wickles Pickles in Dadeville, Alabama. This beer is Wickles’s Pickle beer and is 5% ABV. This Pickle beer is a sour beer with cucumbers, dill, coriander, Himalayan Sea Salt, and black pepper. I have had one or two other pickle beers, and I enjoy pickles a lot. This beer pours a light green with a light yellow tint. This beer has a two-finger quickly fading white head. The aroma is sour, spiced, and pickled. It has some tart aromas. The flavor is sour and lightly spiced. This beer has a light pickled flavor. This beer finishes with a sourness and a salted note. The pickle flavor grows in the aftertaste. Wickles Pickle Beer starts okay and gets better in the aftertaste. This pickle beer is a C+. I have had better versions of this, not that this was terrible. Martin House Brewing Best Made Pickle Beer is a better pickle beer. But I still would recommend this pickle beer. I just would rush for it. Please stay safe, be kind to one another, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

New Sarum Brewing Griffin Series Tropic Thunder Gose

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This beer is Tropic Thunder Gose from New Sarum Brewing in Salisbury, North Carolina. This Gose has Mango Passion fruit and Hawaiin Red Sea Salt brewed in it. This sour ale pours a light yellow that has a light green tint. There is a two-finger thin white head. The aroma is sour, tart, salty with mango and passion fruit. The flavor is tart, sour-ish, fruity (mango/passion fruit), and some saltiness. This beer has a light feel on the palate. This Gose finishes with a tart, tropical fruit flavor. The aftertaste is also tart and fruity but not as intense. This is a good beer and I give Tropic Thunder Gose a B. It is good but it could have a tarter and saltier flavor to make it perfect. I enjoy it and I would recommend it. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

The Vail Brewing Co. Vent3

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This Beer from The Vail Brewing Co. in Richmond, Virginia, is Vent3, a Triple-dry hopped West Coast style IPA. This beer is 6% ABV and is Triple-dry hopped with CTZ, Amarillo, El Dorado, and Nelson Savuin hops. You don’t see many triple-dry hop IPAs, but a few are around. This beer pours a deeper yellow with a three-finger white head. The aroma is fruity (peaches and citrus orange) and resiny, with some pine notes. The taste is fruity (more pronounced oranges) and resin/pine notes. The flavor is also soft and lightly malty. This beer has a fuller feeling in your mouth. Then comes a piney aftertaste with a bit of bitterness. The aftertaste is lightly fruity and piney. Vent3 IPA is good but I can’t really compare this to other triple-dry hopped IPAs because I haven’t had much. But as an IPA this is good, but not great. I give The Vail Brewing Company Vent3 a C+. It’s just above average. It wasn’t terrible, I enjoyed it, and it is not a beer I would tell you not to have. Please stay safe, be kind to one another, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Lenny Boy Brewing Co. Creature of Habit

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This is Creature of Habit a Greman Style Helles Lager from Lenny Boy Brewing Co. This lager is 5.4% ABV and is brewed here in Charlotte, North Carolina. Helles means pale, so this is a pale lager. This lager pours a bright yellow/gold color with a two-finger bright white head. The aroma is sweet, biscuity, malty, and clean. The flavor isn’t far off from its own aroma. This beer has a sweet, malty, biscuity, and clean taste. The flavor is balanced. This beer feels light on in the mouth. Then you get a nice semi-sweet, biscuity, malted finish. The aftertaste is clean and refreshing, with a touch of malts that linger for a few seconds. This Helles Lager is good, but it’s not the world’s best, it’s a B+. I would recommend this beer. I would go for this again. It is crushable. The flavor wouldn’t overwhelm your tastebuds after a few of these. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!