Martin House Brewing Best Maid Sour Pickle Beer

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Martin House Brewing Company Best Maid Sour Pickle Beer, 4.7% ABV, is the other beer I purchased in Dallas, Texas, at the liquor store. This sour Gose beeris brewed with Best Maid Pickle juice. I picked up a six-pack of this because I love pickles. So if youdislike pickles,n this beer isn’t for you. Best Maid Sour Pickle Beer pours a light, merry yellow, light green with a one-and-a-half finger white head. The aroma is tart and sour with dill pickle bitterness. Taste is juicy, tart, sour, bitter, with dill pickle notes and the faintest salt. This beer has a sour, juicy pickle finish and aftertaste that draws you back for another sip. That is if you like pickles, with a light mouthfeel. I enjoyed Martin House Brewing Company Best Maid Sour Pickle Beer quite a bit. I also think you will not be looking for a thir after twod. The flavor gets to be a bit intense at that point, but still a good beer. I give Martin House Brewing Company Best Maid Sour Pickle Beer an A. If you love pickles, then this is the beer for you! Please stay safe and enjoy responsibly! 

Deep River Brewing Co. & R and R Brewing Co. Pickletown Lager

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Pickletown Dill Pickle Lager is a collaboration between Deep River Brewing Co., Clayton, North Carolina, and R and R Brewing Co. in Mt. Olive. That is where Mt. Olive Pickle Company is located. Each pint of Pickletown has fifty pickles. This beer pours greenish gold with a one-finger thin white head. The aroma is light, vegetal, with vinegar and cucumber. The flavor is light, vegetal, and vinegary, with a light pickle/cucumber. Not much pickle flavor on this one. It has a light feeling in the mouth. The beer finishes with a light pickle-like vinegar flavor. The aftertaste is a weak pickle. This beer is not bad for a lager, but it does need more pickle flavor. I think Pickletown lager is a C-. I didn’t mind this beer, but I think Martin House Best Made Pickle Beer is more of a pickle beer. But that beer is a Gose, not a lager like this one. I wouldn’t recommend this beer if you are really into pickles, but it is good if you don’t like them so much. If you want to try Pickletown, you can get it at Total Wine and More (totalwine.com). The pickle flavor on this lager is weak, but it is otherwise okay. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers! 

Satusuma Shuzo Satusuma Black

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I was on a guided tour through Kagoshima Japan and we went to a garden where silk was made, and in the gift shop among so many bottles of Sake I found Satusuma Black. This is a stout made from sweet potatoes and comes in at 4.5% ABV, which is low for a stout. This beer is produced by a local company that makes sake from sweet potatoes as well as two other low ABV sweet potato beer. This beer poured thin deep black with a one finger tan head. The aroma is sweet and light and somehow strong at the same time. The flavor is in the lighter side for a stout. It has a bit of sweetness intertwined with some bitterness. This stout has a medium feel in the mouth. The finish is semisweet with a little heat. Then is has an aftertaste of sweet potato for a second then fades into a bittersweet cocoa. This is more of an interesting beer than a good beer. I this Satusuma Black is a C. The fact that this beer is interesting helps but the flavor is average but I was able to finish this, because the flavor grew on me as I drank more. I don’t know if I could recommend this, not because it’s terrible, but because it might be real difficult to obtain. But if you do come across this Satusuma Black try it! Cheers!

Garage Project Pickle Beer

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Anything pickle I will pretty much like. Pickle Beer from Garage Project in Wellington City, New Zealand caught my eye on the Burn Ends menu in Singapore. This beer is a dill cucumber sour at 4.3% ABV. This beer pour a light pickle brine green with a thin one-finger head. It fades really quickly. The aroma is of faint/tart pickle. The flavor is not over briny with dill pickle, it rather light on the dill pickle. There is a nice tartness to this beer that is more of a sour/gosé. This beer has a light mouthfeel. Then it comes to a tart, light pickled finish with a sour/tart aftertaste. This is a good beer that is not overly pickled. I give this Garage Project Pickle Beer an A+. This is an easy drink beer that is refreshing and goes down easy. This would be great on a hot day. If you are ever in Singapore or New Zealand I highly recommend you drink this beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly. Cheers!

Birdsong Brewing Co. Jalapeño Pale Ale

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I have had Jalapeño Pale Ale from Birdsong Brewing Co. many times. I haven’t reviewed this beer. I really can’t believe that. This pale ale is brewed with jalapeños that have most of the seed removed. The seed of the jalapeño is where the capsaicin or the heat is. The idea behind removing the jalapeño seed is to give very little to no heat and more of a vegetal flavor. This pale ale pours a deep yellow with a two-finger white head. The aroma is vegetal, bitter, and jalapeño spice. The flavor is a jalapeño vegetal spice/heat, bitterness, and a faint hop flavor. The feeling is light in the mouth. Then comes a lightly spicy jalapeño finish that has minimal bitterness. The aftertaste is vegetal with light bittering notes. Birdsong Jalapeño Pale Ale is a unique beer I love and give an A+. I could have a few pints of this with spicy nachos or chicken wings. I highly recommend this beer! 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!

10 Barrel Brewing Co. Crush Cucumber Sour

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I have some good news. I am changing things for the new year. I will review non-alcoholic beer in January from the first to the fourteenth. So stay tuned for that. This beer is Crush Cucumber Sour from 10 Barrel Brewing Co. It weighs in at 5.0% ABV and is from Bend, Oregon. This beer pours a light yellow color with a one-finger white head. The aroma is sour, tart, and vegetal. The flavor is also sour, tart, and light cucumber (just a whisper) on the back of the tongue. The mouthfeel is light. Then this sour beer finishes with a more pronounced cucumber flavor (not too much). Then you get an aftertaste of sour and tart flavor that falls off rather quickly. This beer is just average to me. I’d give this Crush Cucumber Sour a C. It’s non-offensive, but it doesn’t have a lot of fresh cucumbers like the description on their website. If I were you, I would pass on this beer. I did, however finish this without wanting to pour it out. It’s not that bad. Please be kind, stay safe, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers and happy new year!