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Catawba Brewing Company El Gato Mariachi

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Evan

Catawba Brewing Company El Gato Mariachi, 5.3% ABV is a Horchata White Ale brewed with Summit hops, 2-Row Pale, Malted wheat, flaked oats, flaked rice, vanilla, Lactose, and cinnamon. Horchata is a Mexican drink made with rice and is flavored with cinnamon and sweetened with sugar. El Gato Marichi pours a yellow color with a one-finger quick white fizzy head that gives off a sweet cinnamon and clove aroma a very very faint banana note that leads you to partake a sip in which you’ll find a nice cinnamon note that has a nice balance of banana clove with notes of vanilla that come to a sweet refreshing finish of vanilla and some cinnamon that give you a nice white ale aftertaste with touches of cinnamon with a light mouthfeel. I found that Catawba Brewing Company El Gato Mariachi an interesting take on a white ale and one that turns out to be good, and I wasn’t really to be the way it tasted I thought it to be more on the sweeter dessert side of things and it was actually refreshing and something that you can have a few of without wrecking your tastebuds. I give Catawba Brewing Company El Gato Mariachi an A+. None of the flavors of El Gato Mariachi weren’t too strong they were lighter than I was expecting and that is why this is a great beer that you should try. Please stay safe at home and please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Co. The Tranquility Amid Terror

Posted on April 20, 2020 by Evan

I purchased a crowler of Burial Beer Co. The Tranquility Amid Terror, 7.2% ABV a New England style IPA from Pop The Top Craft Beer Shop here in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Tranquility Amid Terror poured a deep cloudy/hazy yellow with a tich two finger white head that sticks around awhile leaving thick ropey lacing after each sip. The Tranquility Amid Terror give off a piney citrusy aroma with a tart bitterness wafting into your seance of smell that draws you to take a sip that brings forth a flavor of bitter creamy citrus orange and light grapefruit notes with a sweet yet tartness that turns into a faint vanilla note that then quickly becomes bitter with a nice tartness toward the end, then culminates into a creamy tart bitter finish with a juicy citrusy aftertaste with a medium, almost full mouthfeel. Burial Beer Co. The Tranquility Amid Terror is a good beer, a B+ beer, falls just a bit in my opinion with that tartness and bitterness together, I think they don’t meld well together but everything else flavor-wise with Burial Beer Co. The Tranquility Amid Terror is great and s beer worth trying. Please stay safe at home and please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Dancing Gnome Beer Lusta

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Evan

Thank you to Dancing Gnome Beer in Pittsburg Pennsylvania for sending me four fresh Lusta, 5.8% ABV their Pale Ale. Lusta pours a yellow straw color that is slightly cloudy with a nice rocky bright three finger white head with great sticking power and leaving behind thick ropey lacing. After looking at this beer you enticed by a citrusy aroma of light grapefruit and orange aroma with nice touches of creamy bitter notes wafting into your sense of smell that calls you to a taste of citrusy orange and grapefruit that has a creaminess to it with nice bitter notes that is somehow smooth that finishes with a juicy citrus fruit bitterness and a nice creamy bitter aftertaste with a medium mouthfeel. Dancing Gnome Beer Lusta is a great beer, an A+ beer, and one that should be a goto beer in any beer drinkers refrigerator. Every ingredient in Lusta just flows and melds very well. Dancing Gnome Beer Lusta is something that should not or ever be missed! Please stay safe at home and please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Dssolver Beer & Proclamation Brewing Co. Tiger Kings

Posted on April 17, 2020May 22, 2020 by Evan

Dssolver Beer & Proclamation Brewing Co. Tiger Kings, 5% ABV brewed with coconut and orange peel is a collaboration between the two breweries brewed at Dssolver Beer in Asheville North Carolina. Tiger Kings pours a yellow color with a bright one and a half finger white quickly fading head that fades down into a small island. This beer gives off orange aromas with sweetness coming in a little coconut form that then takes you into the taste that is big sweet orange flavor in the front with some coconut and a weird bitterness in the back of the mouth that continues into the finish with an orange candy finish that tastes like it has gone bad with a bitter orange candy aftertaste that really lingers with a very faint trace of weird coconut. Dssolver Beer & Proclamation Brewing Co. Tiger Kings starts out fine then goes way downhill quickly getting a D-. The finish and the aftertaste are weird tastings in the bad/not so good way. Dssolver Beer & Proclamation Brewing Co. Tiger Kings is only good when it hits the tip of your tongue, that like two seconds then it’s quickly headed into D- territory. But I like Dssolver Beer but I am not so sure about Proclamation Brewing Co. Don’t try this one. Please stay safe at home and please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Throwback Thursday: Avery Brewing Co. Ellie’s Brown Ale

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Evan

Origins Posted on March 28th, 2015.

Brown Ales are unrated as a style of beer in my opinion. I believe that they don’t get as much credit as they should. I love brown ale a lot. They can be sweet, malty, nutty and drinkable. Here we have Avery Brewing Co. in Boulder Colorado, Ellie’s Brown Ale, 5.5% ABV. This beer is named after Avery Brewing’s beloved chocolate lab. Rocky Mountain water, malted barley, hops, and yeast are used. This is another beer delivered by Brewpublik (www.brewpublik.com). Ellie’s Brown Ale pours a deep russet color with a four-finger pillowy off white head that slowly dissipates into a fine lacing. I found very little light coming through the glass with some carbonation bubbles. The aroma is sweet with some malt and chocolate with a hint of nutty aroma. The taste on Ellie’s Brown Ale is a bit sweet brown sugar at first, and then you get a bit of the chocolate with some nutty flavors and a hint of vanilla. Ellie’s Brown Ale taste is just as brown ale should be. This brown ale has a smooth sweeter finish and nice chocolate and brown sugar after taste that lingers just enough for full enjoyment. The mouthfeel is somewhat light to barely medium. I like brown ales a lot and Ellie’s Brown Ale is no different. I give this an A. It is just what brown ale is supposed to be. It is easy to drink with a great tasting flavor. Ellie’s Brown Ale is something that you could drink a few and really enjoy it. The flavor is not so bold that one is all you could enjoy. It is sessionable brown ale. I recommend that you go and try Avery Brewing Co. Ellie’s, Brown Ale. It is good! Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

Sugar Creek Brewing Hazy Creek India Pale Ale

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Evan

Sugar Creek Brewing Company Hazy Creek India Pale Ale, 6% ABV with 30 IBUs is a New England style IPA that has been dry-hopped during fermentation after being local brewed here in Charlotte, North Carolina. Hazy Creek is the newest offering from Sugar Creek Brewing Company, and pour a bright yellow hazy color with a two-finger white slow fading head which gives off tropical juicy fruit aromas of mango, pineapple with some nice orange peels and light bitter hop notes. Once you take a sniff you go in for a flavor of nice juicy ripe tropical mango, pineapple, juicy orange and orange peel with a nice light but slightly pungent bitter hop notes that has a tropical fruit juice finish and a juicy fruit bitter aftertaste that is quite refreshing all with a medium mouthfeel. Sugar Creek Brewing Company Hazy Creek India Pale Ale is a very welcome addition to their lineup of beers, I give this IPA an A+. Sugar Creek Brewing Company Hazy Creek India Pale Ale is a very well balanced and brewed IPA that everyone should try, it is refreshing juicy with good tropical fruits with lower bitterness. I could drink many of these Sugar Creek Brewing Company Hazy Creek India Pale Ale. Please stay safe at home and please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Westbrook Brewing Co. Rinse/Repeat Ekuanot Azacca El Dorado India Pale Ale

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Evan

Westbrook Brewing Co. Rinse/Repeat Ekuanot Azacca El Dorado India Pale Ale, 7% ABV brewed in Mt. Pleasent South Carolina with yes you guessed it, Ekuanot, Azacca, and El Dorado dry hops with Cascade, and CTZ wet hops, Conan Yeast, with Carapils, Oat, Pale, and wheat malts. Ekuanot Azacca El Dorado pours a bight hazy yellow color with a three-finger billowing slow white head giving off tropical fruits aromas of fresh mango, pineapple, tangerine, and little orange peel that sends you into a fresh tropical fruit taste that is much like the beers aroma with nice ripe tropical pineapple, mango, and some hoppy orange peel with nice bitter notes coming to a tropical bitter hoppy fruit finish and a tropic bitter aftertaste with a medium mouthfeel. Westbrook Brewing Co. Rinse/Repeat Ekuanot Azacca El Dorado is a good tropical IPA that is well-deserving of an A+. Nothing really bad with this delicious IPA that you should already have had. Please stay safe at home and please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Throwback Thursday: Rogue Ales Yellow Snow IPA

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Evan

Originally posted December 11th, 2016

There is an old saying “don’t eat the yellow snow” someone at Rogue Ales in Newport Oregon made Yellow Snow IPA, 6.5% ABV with 82 IBUs. Yellow Snow IPA is brewed with CaraFoam, Melanoidin, 2-Row & Rogue Farms Dare & Risk Malts; Amarillo Hops; Free Range Coastal Water and Pacman Yeast. Yellow Snow pours a golden yellow color with a three-finger white head that leaves behind nice decent lacing that fades into chunky lacing. The aroma is hoppy with big earthy tones with slight pine essence. Yellow snow has a big IPA aroma to it. Taste is big with hoppy, fruity, earthy notes upfront with earthy bitterness in the back with slight juicy fruits. The mouthfeel is a full medium, this beer finishes with a bitterness that lingers just enough for you to really taste the bitterness. The aftertaste is hoppy and sticky with a bit of a fruity note. This is a well-brewed bitter IPA and Yellow Snow deserves a B. Solidly brewed and almost well balance but falls just half an inch short of being perfectly balanced. It just needs a little more malt’s to be perfect. I would recommend having Rogue Ales Yellow Snow IPA. Cheers Please enjoy responsibly!

Dssolver Brewing Eat The Rich Bourbon Barrel coffee Stout

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Evan

Dssolver Brewing Eat The Rich Bourbon Barrel Coffee Stout, 5.5% ABV is a collaboration between Dssolver Brewing and Hoof Hearted Coffee and is a bourbon barrel fermented after being brewed with Cacao nibs, vanilla, sea salt, hazelnut, & bourbon barrel-aged Hoof Hearted Coffee Beans. Eat The Rich pours a thick black color with a two-finger foamy/rocky brown creamy slow head with roasted and toasted coffee sweet vanilla cacao aromas that entice you to take a lush sip allowing toasted roast notes of a nice vanilla/chocolate coffee sweetness with a big of bourbon notes hitting your taste buds with a little nutty notes makes its way into the flavor mix that comes to a nice bourbon coffee finish and continues into the aftertaste with some light vanilla sweet notes with a fully sticky mouthfeel. Dssolver Brewing Eat The Rich Bourbon Barrel Coffee Stout does have a lot going on but it all comes together for a wonderful dark stout beer, getting an A. You can really taste all the individual flavor of this beer and that is not an easy task, I mean sometimes on flavor could overwhelm another flavor, but Dssolver Brewing Eat The Rich Bourbon Barrel Coffee Stout really lets all the tasty flavors shine though and that makes it a beer that is worth trying! Please stay safe at home and please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Dssolver Brewing Raised in the Juicy

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Evan

Dssolver Brewing Raised in the Juicy, 9.2% is a double IPA I purchased in a Crowler format from Pop The Top Craft Beer Shop. Dssolver brews in Ashville, North Carolina. Raised in the Juicy pours a dark yellow color with a two-finger pillowy white head that is somewhat slow fading with minimal lacing left behind. Raised in the Juicy gives off tropical juicy fruit aromas like pineapple with a bitterness and a tiny pine note that beckons you to sip on tropic citrus fruit notes with a nice bitter that grows as it washes over the backend of your tongue and comes to a bitter finish with nice droplets of pineapple orange finish that fades a little and continues into the aftertaste that does linger with a nice growing hoppy note with a full mouthfeel. Dssolver Brewing Raised in the Juicy doesn’t drink like its a 9.2 ABV beer that is good and that gives it an A. All the nice bitterness with all the tropical and citrus fruit flavors blend nicely for a delicious double IPA and one that you should try for yourself. Please stay safe at home and enjoy responsibly! Cheers!