Omnipollo Beer Shploing!! Mango S’mores

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Craft beer is booming in Sweden. There is a big popularity of craft beer in that country, mostly with pale ales and IPAs, from what I found while there. Yes there are a few American crafts there like Sierra Nevada, and Brooklyn Brewery. But what I have here from Brewpublik (www.brewpublik.com), is Omnipollo Shploing!! Mango S’mores, 7.0% ABV. This unfiltered IPA is brewed with marshmallows, graham cracker, salt, Lacto sugar (sugar found in milk), mango, and vanilla. Omnipollo Beer is from Stockholm, Sweden. Shploing!! Mango S’mores pours a thick orange juice yellow color with a one and a half finger of fizzy white head, with an aroma of big juicy mango fruits with a little sweetness and some slight hop notes. Taste is big with mango and bitter hops and a slight sweetness that coats the mouth. You get a pinch of a salted note that comes in the middle of the mouth. On the back you get a faint sweetness that is probably vanilla and there is not really any graham cracker or marshmallow flavor here. You will find little sediment at the bottom of the glass, and that is perfectly normal because this beer is unfiltered, which is becoming a popular trend with IPAs right now. Mouth feel is full with a hoppy full finish and a bittersweet mango after taste that lingers on the tongue and in the mouth for a while. This beer looks better than it taste, but doesn’t taste half bad, so I give Shploing!! Mango S’mores a B+. This beer looks and smells amazing, but you don’t really get any of the graham cracker, marshmallow or much vanilla like described on the can, and that holding this beer back slightly. If you describe the beer on the label I think it should deliver the said flavor, or come really close to that. I think that this is a beer one that you should try just because it’s so different and interesting for an IPA, and it’s kind of good. Thank you to Brewpublik for this cool beer! Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!   

Eviltwin Brewing A Is For Apricot

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I like apricot beers but I’ve never really eaten an apricot and I think that they might not be good, just by how an apricot looks. I know that sounds a bit strange. I have here Evil Twin Brewing A Is For Apricot, 4.5% ABV, that I picked up through a recommendation from Good Bottle Co. (www.goodbottleco.com). Thanks to them for this beer! This brewery is from Copenhagen, Denmark and they also have operations in New York City. Eviltwin usually doesn’t brew the same beer more than once , very few  they do. This beer is a Gose-style ale brewed with salt and apricot added. A Is For Apricot pours a hazy bright yellow color with a quickly fading white head that leaves very little to almost nothing behind. Aroma is tart with some apricot, slightly salty/briny, with the taste not far off from the aroma with more tart apricot flavors with a salted briny flavor and a faint sour note in the middle and more on the back of the mouth. Mouth feel is medium to light, but more on the lighter side. A Is For Apricot finishes tart slightly salty with some apricot and with a more tart finish with a little sour salted note. A Is For Apricot is light and refreshing with ease of drinking and gets a B+. I think the apricot is good and the Gose base is good, together they kind of drop off a bit. I have had much better Goses, Westbrook Brewing Co. Gose is one for example, but not to say that A Is For Apricot is terrible, it isn’t. I thought it was refreshing, had good flavor, but it’s not the worlds best. I just think that some Gose beers are better than this. The apricot kind of takes just a little bit way from the Gose base beer; the apricot slightly over powers the salty notes upfront and they linger on your tongue in the middle and back of the month. I do however recommend Eviltwin Brewing A Is For Apricot. Good warm weather beer that is refreshingly easy top drink. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

Stillwater-Artisanal Shoegaze Distorted Farmhouse Pale Ale

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Stillwater Artisanal is a quit popular craft brewery in Baltimore, Maryland and brews pretty cool and trendy craft beers, and are sought after by many craft beer geeks. Shoegaze Distorted Farmhouse Pale Ale, 6.0% ABV is a kind of hybrid beer, farmhouse ale, and pale ale together. This beer according to the can is also found in Oslo, Norway. So for all you Norwegians readers you are in luck you might find this near you. Shoegaze Distorted Farmhouse Pale Ale pours a hazy bright yellow color with a two and a half finger white head with decent head retention leaving behind some spotty lacing, and aromas of lemon, but a slightly funky lemon, slight citrus and some faint hop notes come though. You get more of the farmhouse than pale ale on the nose, but there are faint pale ale aromas there. Shoegaze taste has a big funky lemon up front with some smooth hop notes in the middle with a slight hoppy flavor on the end with some slight yet faint citrus flavors though out. This Shoegaze finishes nice with good funkiness, slight lemon and touch of hoppy note and with a funky and slightly hoppy after taste with just a bit of the citrus lemon. I do think Shoegaze drinks like a lighter ABV beer than the 6.0% that is stated on the can. It goes down easy and is refreshing. Shoegaze is something that might go well with summer time weather. I thought that the combination of farmhouse and pale ale melded well together and made for an interestingly tasty balanced beer, and with that said I give Stillwater Artisanal Shoegaze Distorted Farmhouse Pale Ale an A. I picked up this single sixteen ounce can at the Good Bottle Co, for $3.25, here in Charlotte, NC 125 Remount Rd, and I would like to thank them for this great recommendation and I recommend you try Stillwater Artisanal Shoegaze Distorted Farmhouse Pale Ale! Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

Brewery Omegang Sour Pale Ale

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I can’t say enough nice things about Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown New York, and are a fabulous brewery, brewing awesome Belgian and Belgian style beers. I’m excited to have received one of Brewery Ommegang beers from Brewpublik (www.brewpublik.com), Pale Sour Ale, 6.9% ABV, a Belgian Pale Ale.  Pale Sour Ale pours a yellow golden color with a big two finger white head with great retention leaving behind some good lacing. Aroma is of tart apples with some slight alcohol and yeast, with a flavor of tart apples, semi-sweet notes a little bit of the yeast poking through on the back of the mouth. This beer smells and taste outstanding and is refreshing. Mouth feel is medium with a more alcoholic taste and some more of the tart apple on the finish. You get more tart flavors in the after taste with some fuller yeast notes. But as this Pale Sour Ale warms it get more alcoholic tasting. I think this beer was excellent, so it’s getting an A+ here. Great flavors through out and great for warmer weather, it really goes nicely with that. This Ommegang drinks like a beer that is a bit lower that the 6.9% ABV, which might be a little tiny bit dangerous. But I highly recommend trying Brewery Ommegang Pale Sour Ale. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!