Left Hand Brewing Co. Coconut Milk Stout

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This review is a re-review of Left Hand Brewing Co. Coconut Milk Stout. I originally reviewed this back in February of this year. From time to time, I will re-review a beer. This is Coconut Milk Stout, a seasonal beer available during winter. This beer is 6% ABV. It is made with Rocky Mountain water, malted barley, lactose (milk sugars), flaked oats, toasted coconut, yeast, and natural flavors. I couldn’t find those natural flavors. This stout pours black with a two-finger beige head. The head is pretty robust. The aroma is sweet, with notes of coconuts, malts, and roasted flavors. The flavor is of toasted coconut and some chocolate. This has a full, creamy textured body. This beer has a sweet coconut finish and malt roast. The aftertaste is less coconut, but has a nice sweet malt/roast flavor. This beer is still as good as when I first reviewed it. I give Left Hand Brewing Co. Coconut Milk Stout an A. It’s not overly stout feeling. It is just right and one you should drink. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Lindeman’s Framboise Raspberry Lambic Beer

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Framboise is the last in the Lindmans’ mixed four pack. This is a raspberry Lambic Beer that comes in a 2.5% ABV. This Belgian raspberry beer utilizes wild-fermented yeast, much like the rest of the mixed pack beer. This beer pours a deep red with a one-finger pink/red head. This resembles dark cranberry juice. The aroma is raspberry sweetness and sourness. The flavor is slightly tart and sour. You get a raspberry flavor, but this is not as strong as the other fruit flavors. The mouthfeel is light. Then this Lambic finishes with a tart and sour raspberry flavor. Aftertaste is more raspberry, but on the lighter side. That aftertaste lingers for a short moment. I found this one to be delicious and an A. But this is a slightly darker flavor overall. That’s because the raspberry is a slightly darker fruit. Which of the four is the best? That would be the Kierk Cheery Lambic Beer. That is because the cherry really shines on that beer. It was just the right amount of fruit flavor to sourness/tartness. Overall, balanced. The peach is good, but the peach does come on strong, and so does the carbonation. The apple lacks apple flavor. But there is just barely enough apple flavor and a good amount of carbonation. In conclusion, all of the Lindman’s Lambic fruit beers are delicious and worth drinking. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Lindeman’s PÊCHE Peach Lambic Beer

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Pêche is a Peach Lambic Beer from Lindeman’s mix four pack. It is a wild yeast. It is also a wild fermented beer with peaches from Vlezenbeek, Belgium. This beer is 2.5% ABV. Peach is my favorite fruit flavor. This beer is from 30% fresh peach juice. It has been around since 1987. This beer pours golden with no visible head. The aroma is sweet with fresh peaches and a bit of light sourness. The flavor is lightly sour and sweet, from the peach flavor. This lambic beer has a good amount of carbonation. The mouthfeel is light. This lambic finishes with a peach flavor that is sweeter and less sour. The aftertaste of this beer is of lingering peach. This beer is good, my favorite so far. I do have one left. This Pêche gets an A+. This beer has very delicately delicious flavors. If you haven’t had this, then you are missing out. I highly recommend it. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Lindemans Apple (POMME) Lambic Beer

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Here is another beer from Lindemans mixed four-pack, and it is Apple (POMME) Lambic Beer. This Beer is an 8-ounce, 3.5% ABV lambic with apple, and it is the youngest in the range (since 2005). This beer pours honey gold with a one-finger white head. The aroma is sweet, apple, sour, and tart. The flavor is the same, and the aroma has sweetness, sour notes, apple, and tart flavors. This apple Lambic has a light feel in the mouth. The aftertaste is tart apple. The finish is sweet and sour apple flavor with tartness that lingers until the next sip. This beer is good, but lighter overall than the Kriek Cherry. This Apple Lambic is an A. This is more of a summer beer than the Cherry, but the Cherry is still a summer drinker. Both are good, and there are two left in the mixed pack. Once all have been reviewed, I will review the mixed pack overall and pick my favorite. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Lindmans Kriek Cherry Lambic Beer

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I found this little eight-ounce Lindemans Kriek in a mixed four-pack at my local Whole Foods. This beer is a 3.5% Kriek Cherry Lambic that goes through a secondary fermentation process in the bottle. This cheery beer is filtered and pasteurized before being bottled and made from a Lambic base. That is the difference between this beer and Oude Kriek Cuvée René. This beer is a maceration of 25% of fresh sour cherry juice, then it is filtered and pasteurised. This Kriek pours a cherry red with a one-finger thin pink head. The aroma is tart, sweet, and sour, with a hint of cherry. The flavor is tart, light, and sour, with a big cherry flavor and some sweetness. This Kriek has a medium mouthfeel. The finish is tart cherry and light sweetness. The aftertaste lingers with cherry tartness and sweet flavors. This is a delicious beer without an overly high ABV. Ledemins Kriek is an A. But I don’t think you can drink more than a 750ML bottle. The flavor gets too much, but it’s still delicious, and you should be drinking this beer! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Left Hand Brewing Co. Zesty Dreams Nitro Meyer Lemon Blonde Ale

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Left Hand Brewing Co. (https://lefthandbrewing.com) Zesty Dreams Nitro is a 5.5% ABV Meyer Lemon Blonde Ale that utilizes nitrogen (a widget) in the can to carbonate this beer. This nitro Blonde ale uses 2-Row Pale Malt, Wheat Malt, Crystal 40, and Rolled Oats malts. They also use Lemon Drop, Eldorado hops, as well as Meyer Lemon and natural lemon flavor. This beer pours a yellow color, with a one-finger creamy, white head. There is an aroma of fresh lemon, tart, dry, and fruity, of course.n The flavor is Lemon fruit, dry, creamy, and slightly tart. This beer has a medium feel to the mouth. Then it has a creamy lemon finish. The aftertaste is just lemony. The nitrogen adds a creaminess that enhances the lemon. This beer gets an A grade. I really would recommend drinking Zesty Dreams. The lemon flavor is excellent without being too tart/sour. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers! 

Westbrook Brewing Co. Lemon Meringue Shake India Pale Ale

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Lemon Meringue Shake India Pale Ale from Westbrook Brewing Co. (westbrookbrewing.com) in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, boasts a 7% ABV. This IPA has Cascade and CTZ hops. It is dry-hopped with Citra and Mosaic. They use Conan Yeast with malts such as Citra Pils, Oats, Pale, and Wheat. It also has Lactose (milk sugar), Lemon, and Madagascar Vanilla. This beer was purchased from Southern Spirits in South Carolina (www.southernspirits.com). This IPA pours a cloudy/hazy yellow, with a two-finger white head. The aroma is citrusy, Lemony, and vanilla. The flavor is citrusy, lemony, with notes of vanilla, sweet/bitter, and creamy. This beer has a light body and a medium mouthfeel. This beer finishes with bittersweet vanilla and lemon. The aftertaste is bitter, lemon/vanilla milkshake. This beer is delicious, and I would not expect anything less from Westbrook Brewing. This Lemon Meringue Shake IPA is an A+. You should be drinking this. It is just as the can says. It tastes like Lemon Meringue Shake. This beer is part of the brewery’s Shake. You should drink this and all of Westbrook’s beers. Please stay safe, be kind to one another, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Brewery Ommegang OMG Series Oak-Aged Watermelon Kolsch

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This Oak-Aged Watermelon Kolsch from Brewery Ommegang (https://www.ommegang.com) in Copperstown, New York is an intresting beer that comes in at 6% ABV. This OMG Series beer is aged on golden agave chips and had touch of lime and real watermelon. I purchased this singular beer from my local Total Wine (totalwine.coml). This beer is fermented with Pilsner, White Wheat, and Cara malts. This Kolsch pours a red hue with a one-finger fizzy white head. The aroma is of watermelon, lime, and it’s haas light tartness. The flavor is slightly dry,with notes of oak, lime, watermelon, sweetness, and light margarita. This beer has a watermelon finsih with a slight oaky flavor that fades quickly. The aftertaste is tart with light sweet notes that do not linger long. This was an amazing tasting Watermelon Kolsch beer. It is well derserving of an A+. Naturally this a beer that you should be drinking. The watermelon does not taste fake, and the lime add a deliciously added layer to this great beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Boulevard Brewing Co. Tropical Tank 7 Island Saison

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Tropical Tank 7 is a new beer from Boulevard Brewing Co. in Kansas City, Missouri (www.boulevard.com). This is an 8.5% ABV Island Saison that I purchased from Southern Spirits (www.southernspirits.com). This beer was released in May of this year. This beer pours yellow with a one-finger white head. The aroma is sweet, candied tropical fruit and bubble gum. The flavor is sweet, tropical fruit, bubble gum, and light perfume. The scent smells slightly better than it tastes. You get a faint/light juicy fruit finish that fades fast. The aftertaste is tropical fruit bubble gum. It’s not so great. The sweetness is too much, and you don’t get any Belgian yeast esters. I did finish this beer. I mean, this wasn’t disgusting. I give Tropical Tank 7 a low-grade D. I don’t think this is something that you need to rush out and have. Regular Tank 7 is a better choice in this situation. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Sugar Creek Brewing Company The Big O Blood Orange IPA

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Made localy in Charlotte, North Carolina by Sugar Creek Brewing, (https://sugarcreekbrewing.com) The Big O is a 7% ABV Blood Orange IPA. This IPA has California grown “Moro” blood oranges along with dry-hopping, specialty toasted malts, Citra and Mosaic hops. You can find this beer where ever beer is sold in the Charlotte area (www.totalwine.com). This IPA pours orange with a two-finger white head. The aroma is big on the orange. It is almost like bitter orange candy. The flavor is orange, fruity, grapefruits, bitterness with small sweet notes. This has a medium mouthfeel. Then it has a bitter orange finish that lingers in the aftertaste with a good amout of bittering notes. This bee is on the heavier flavored side of things. So it has a nice pungent bitter orange like its name. I give The Big O an A-. It does have a little more boozieness on this but that is not so bad. That is a common ABV with craft IPAs. I would recommend this beer if you love bitter oranges. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!