Legal Remedy Brewing Co. Whistleblower Watermelon Wheat

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Brewed in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Whistleblower from Legal Remedy Brewing Co, is a 6% watermelon wheat with watermelon purée. Legal Remedy is a courtroom/law/lawyer themed brewery, (https://legalremedybrewing.com). This wheat beer pours yellow with a semi-quick one-finger white head. The aroma is sweet, fruity, and light on watermelon. The flavor is sweet and there is more watermelon than on the aroma. The wheat is light as is the body of this beer. It is fruity and the sweetness makes a vanilla like note as this beer warms. This beer has a light mouthfeel. Then it finishes with a fruity watermelon sweetness that lingersmomentarilyt on the aftertaste. Whistleblower is a decent tasting beer, I give it a C. It is average and the watermelon is lighter than I would have like. But most watermelon flavored things don’t actually taste like real watermelon. This is missing some watermelon flavor. But it isn’t a bad choice, but 21st Amendment Brewing’s Hell or High Watermelon is a much better choice. Please stay safe, be kind to each other , and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Brewery Ommegang x Leifmans OMG Series Dream Patch

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Dream Patch is a Fruited Sour beer from Brewery Ommegang (https://www.ommegang.com) in Copperstown, New York and Leifmans (https://www.liefmans.com/en) in Oudenaarde, Belgium. These two breweries collaborated to make this Sour from Ommegang OMG Series. This beer is 6.5% ABV, with Pilsner and Crystal malts. It also has Belgian sour gurus from Liefmansands Cherry, Blueberry, and Raspberry. This beer is available year round. I purchased this from Total Wine (Totalwine.com). This beer pours a cherry read with a pink-like one-finger head that is gone instantly. The aroma is fruity and tart. There is Cherry and blueberry. I didn’t get much or any blueberry. The flavor is tart with cherry, raspberry and slight blueberry flavor. Overall the tartness is mild as is the fruity flavors. The mouthfeel is light. This beer finishes with a nice tartness of cherries. The raspberries are faint on the finish. The aftertaste is tart but that does fade along with the fruity and some slight yeast notes. This is not in your face sour or tart. Deam Patch is an A. The fact that the blueberries get lost on the flavor held it back from being perfect. I would still recommend this beer. You should drink this! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Highland Brewing Company Seasonal Cerveza Lime Lager

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From Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina, Seasonal Cerveza Lime Lager is only available February through June. This beer is 5% ABV with Mt. Hood, Hallertau, Mittenfruh, and Perle hops. There is Vianna, Pilsner, and Dark Munich malts as well as Lime in this Lager. This lager pours a gold color with a one finger white head that fizzes away quickly. The aroma is zesty with lime and crisp on the nose. The flavor is tangy, lime, malty, and crisp with a light body. This has a light feeling in the mouth. This lager has a fruity lime finish and aftertaste of the same lime zest. This is a good crushable beer that is an A. If you like Mexican style beers, then look no further. This beer is good without trying too hard and it’s refreshing. The lime flavor does not overpower the beer in any way. It complements the overall flavors of this lager. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Birdsong Brewing Co. Peel Good Inc.

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Peel Good Inc. is a sour ale with blood oranges from Birdsong Brewing Co. in Charlotte, North Carolina. This sour ale is 5% ABV. I am a big fan of blood oranges. I love all kinds of blood orange beverages and the blood oranges themselves. This beer pours an almost yellow-light orange with a one-finger head. The head is gone as soon as it is poured. The aroma is tart blood orange with a hint of sweetness. The flavor is blood orange, tart, and sour. This is not too tart, but it has enough tartness. This has a light but tart mouthfeel. Then, it finishes with a tartness that fades into a light sourness. The aftertaste is orangey and tart and lingers for a moment. This is a good sour ale that is a B+. It could use a tiny bit more blood orange flavor. That would be my only complaint about this beer. Yes, you should be drinking this, but not a whole lot. The flavor would get overwhelming after three. I still like this beer from Birdsong. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

NoDa Brewing Co. Cheerwine Holiday Ale

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NoDa Brewing Co. Cheerwine Holiday Ale is a seasonal/holiday version of Cheerwine Ale. This beer is 5.2% ABV wheat ale with cheery and pineapple. This ale is supposed to be a beer version of Cheerwine Holiday Punch. This ale pours a light peach with a quick, fading one-finger white head. The aroma is wheat, cherry, and pineapple. The flavor is much like Cheerwine. There are cherry, pineapple, and wheat flavors with a mild sweetness similar to a sour ale. This has a light mouthfeel. Then, it has a sweet, fruity finish, like a fruity soda. The aftertaste is more fruity Cheerwine. This is not great, it comes to a C-. I feel this beer is trying to be three things at once, Cheerwine, Holiday Cheerwine, and a beer. It not doing a bad job, but it could be better. I bought this because it sounds interesting. It is not terrible. I wouldn’t buy this a second time. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

The Bruery Desert Flora

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Desert Flora is a Belgian-style Table Beer with hibiscus and Prickly Pear. This beer is from The Bruery in Placentia, California and has a 3.5% ABV. Table beer is usually a lower-alcohol beer that Belgian monks drink with a meal or for any occasion. This beer pours orange with a two-finger billowing head. The aroma is light, fruity, and floral. The flavor is light, citrusy, orange, and with hibiscus. Being a low abv beer, it is crisp, but the overall flavor is very light, as is the feel in the mouth. You really have to pay attention to find all the flavors. I do think this is kind of like a sour beer. This beer doesn’t have a strong finish but has a floral flavor. The aftertaste is floral, fruity, but light. This is not bad, I give this an A-. I find that low-alcohol beer to not have as strong flavors. This had slightly more than I though. I do recommend this one and you can have a few due to it being 3.5% Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Suffolk Punch Brewing A Patchwork Orange Fruited Pale Ale

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A Patchwork Orange from Suffolk Punch Brewing was gifted to me for my birthday over the weekend from a good neighbor along with five other different beers. This is a fruited pale ale that is 5.7% ABV. It just has Mosaic hops and fresh oranges in it. Not a big ingredients list here. This pale ale pours a bright cloudy orange with a one-finger white head. This beer does have particulate floating in it, I think that’s probably bits of orange. The aroma is slightly hoppy orange bitterness. The flavor is citrusy orange sweetness, bitterness, watery, and smooth. This has more of a real orange taste rather than a more citrus candy orange. This has a nice medium mouthfeel. This pale ale then finishes with a smooth bitter orange and that orange carries over to a light linger in the aftertaste. This was good but a little on the plane side. I can say that I recommend it nor would I tell you not to drink this. I don’t think it’s bad. The fresh orange flavor is good and interesting. I give this a solid C. A C for citrus I guess you could say! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Town Brewing Company One In A Melon

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It’s summer time alright. The weather is hot and sweaty. Well Town Brewing Company in Charlotte, North Carolina has One In A Melon. This is a Watermelon Kölsch beer. It is only 4.9% ABV. Watermelon is always a good Sumer treat to beat the heat. The Kölsch style originated in Colone, Germany, and requires fermenting with ale yeast and finishing at cold temperatures. This is like an Ale crossed with a Lager. This Kölsch pours a light pink with a light pink two-finger head. It’s not a really spectacular head, but it’s there. The aroma is fruity with watermelon, dryness, and clean. The flavor is sweet melon, with dry notes, and it has a light body. This is overall light and so is the mouthfeel. This has a dry watermelon finish with a light linger of a watermelon aftertaste. This beer has light flavors, but it is refreshing to drink. I give One In A Melon a C+. I almost went higher, but the watermelon was a bit too light. It is something I’d recommend. But don’t rush to have One In A Melon. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Sugar Creek Brewing Company Big Hazy O India Pale Ale

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This is a newer beer from the fine people at Sugar Creek Brewing Company. Big Hazy O is a Hazy version of the very tasty Big O IPA. This beer is 6.7% and has Blood oranges, Citra, Simcoe, and Mosaic hops. Their Big O doesn’t have Simcoe hops. This is a core Sugar Creek beer. This IPA pours a hazy yellow with a one-and-a-half-finger white head. The aroma is blood orange fruit, bitter, and it’s juicy. The flavor is juicy with blood oranges and has a hoppy bitterness that is a bit hazy on your tongue. This has a litter feel on/in the mouth. The finish is orangey, slightly candy-like with a nice bitterness. The aftertaste is bitter with juicy oranges. This Big Hazy O is somewhat better than its non-hazy counterpart. This Big Hazy O is an A. The fruit flavors really make this beer great. This is one IPA worth having. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

NoDa Brewing Company

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I have been posting a lot of Belgian beer recently and thought it was time for something non-Belgian. This is Carolina Quencher from NoDa Brewing Company locally made in Charlotte, North Carolina. This is a 5.2% ABV tropical wheat ale. This wheat beer has passion fruit, orange, mango, guava, and pineapple. This beer sounds like a tropical fruit bomb. This beer pours yellow with a one-finger quick, thin, and fizzy head. The aroma is fruity as expected, with orange and passion fruit. I did get the faintest smell of pineapple, guava, and mango. They were almost not there. The flavor is juicy and fruity with passion fruit, orange, mango, pineapple, and guava. These fruit flavors do flatten a bit overall as this beer warms. This has a light mouthfeel. Then you’ll find a juicy and refreshing fruit finish. The aftertaste is fruity orange and passion fruit. The other flavors fade out in the finish. This is a good sessionable beer with good flavors that aren’t overpowering. I give Carolina Quencher an A+. Do drink this beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!