Burial Beer Co. Slough Water American Porter with Coffee

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I have another Burial Beer Co. Beer. This one is Slough Water coming in at 5.9% ABV. This is an American Porter with coffee. This beer has barley, oats, triticale (a hybrid of wheat and rye), and roasted malts. This porter is conditioned on Methodical Coffee’s Guatemalan Lxlam, Costa Rican La Pastora beans. This dark beer pours a black color with a two-finger beige head. The aroma is bitter, sweet, coffee, roasted, and malty. The beer’s flavor is close to its own aroma. It’s bittersweet, malted, roasted coffee with a bit of molasses. This beer has a full feeling in your mouth. This porter has a bitter coffee-roasted finish. That leads to a faint bittersweet aftertaste. This Burial Beer Co. Slough Water is an A. It isn’t overpowering or thick. It has a good balance of tasty flavors. If you like dark beers with coffee then this is your beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Burial Beer Co. Skillet Donut Stout

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Burial Beer Co., Skillet Donut Stout makes this beer in Asheville, North Carolina. This beer is 8% ABV. This is an oatmeal Stout with lactose, coffee, nine barley malts, a scoop of oats, molasses, and milk sugars. The coffee comes from Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Columbia. This stout pours a deep, black, thick, with a two-finger creamy beige head. The aroma is bittersweet, malty, roasted, and deep. The flavor is roasted coffee, and bittersweet malt, with a syrup flavor. There is a full feeling in the mouth. Then you get a bitterness with a rounded sweetness and coffee for a finish. The aftertaste is like coffee with cream that lingers just a little. This beer may sound like a big beer, but it drinks like it isn’t. This beer is good, I give this Skillet Donut Stout an A+. You should be drinking this beer. It would go well with a nice chocolate dessert, waffles, French toast, or pancakes. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Edmund’s Oast Brewing Company Special Dark Czech-Style Dark Lager

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!This beer from Edmund’s Oast Brewing Company in Charleston, South Carolina, is Special Dark. Special Dark is a 5.5% Czech-Style Dark Lager. This beer is not a year-round beer. This dark beer pours almost deep black with a two-finger beige head. The aroma is beady, malted with light sweetness and a coffee scent. The flavor is malty, sweet, and bready, with bitterness on the back of the mouth. The flavor is light overall. This beer has a somewhat medium feel in the mouth. This beer has a light bittersweet malt finish. Then you find a bittersweet coffee aftertaste that doesn’t linger. This is okay, but I found it to have lighter flavors that aren’t bad on their own but not together. All the flavors together give this beer a C+. I would like this beer to have more hardier flavors. So that together would make the whole beer a little better. I wouldn’t rush right out for this beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Sugar Creek Brewing Company Path to Enlightenment West-Coast IPA

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We’re back after nearly a month off. I have been participating in dry January. No alcohol or non-alcoholic stuff. I find NA beer to be no good. This local Charlotte, North Carolina beer from Sugar Creek Brewing Company, Path to Enlightenment West-Coast IPA. This is a new beer from Sugar Creek that is 7% ABV. It won the bronze medal for American IPA at the 2023 U.S. Open Beer Championship. This IPA has a combination of Mosaic and Simcoe hops. This IPA pours a golden color with a one-finger white head. The head does quickly fade in decent lacing. The aroma is citrusy, grassy, little malt note, and hoppy. The flavor is where the malt is more pronounced, and you’ll find grapefruit, citrus, and grassy notes. The bitter/hoppy notes are more on the back of the tongue and as it passes the tongue. The beer has a medium feel in the mouth. Then this IPA finishes with a bitter, gassy, grapefruit flavor. The aftertaste is a bit like a malty grapefruit that lingers for a bit before fading as you take the next sip. This west-coast IPA is very similar to others in this beer style. The malt notes do help this beer stand out a bit, giving this Path to Enlightenment West-Coast IPA a B. I do recommend this beer if you are an IPA fan. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Fatty’s Beer Works High Style Italian Pilsner

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This High Style Italian Pilsner beer is from Fatty’s Beer Works in Charleston, South Carolina. This beer is made with Pilsner Malt, and Hallertau Mittelfrüh (the Kaiser of German hops). This beer is dry-hopped with Tettnang hops. This beer is 5% ABV. Fatty’s Beer Works is named after the brewery’s founder’s college nickname given to him by his fraternity brothers at Clemson University. This beer pours a golden color with a bright white two-and-quarter-finger head. The aroma is light hop note, lemon/white grape, and bread crust. The flavor is white grape, bread crust, light bittering notes (towards the back of the tongue), and tartness. This beer feels light on the pallet. This pilsner finishes with a light bitter note and some slight fruity flavor. The aftertaste is faintly tart and clean. This is a beer is one that I could go right back to over and over. I give High Style an A+. It should not be missed, I highly recommend this beer from Fatty’s Beer Work. It has an overall clean and balanced flavor and it is delicious. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Celebration Fresh Hop IPA

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This beer from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is Celebration Fresh Hop IPA. This beer is 6.8% ABV and is seasonally available from October through December with its Caramel Malts. This beer uses hops that haven’t been dried. This IPA pours a red/orange color with a two-finger white stead head. The aroma is piney, malted, hoppy, and citrus-fruited. The flavor is bitter, piney, orange/grapefruit, malty and hoppy. This beer has a medium body. Then it has a pine orange/grapefruit bitter finish. The aftertaste is less piney, but the bitterness intensifies and lingers with a bit of malted flavor. I have had this on many times before. I remember the first time I thought Celebration was so good and it still is. I think Celebration Fresh Hop IPA is an A+. I always look for it around Christmas time and you should too! Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! cheers!

Devils Logic #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout

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This local Devil’s Logic Brewing (Charlotte, North Carolina) beer is #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout. This stout is 5.4%. Devil’s Logic conditions this beer on Enderly Coffee Company’s Brazilian roast. This beer pours a black color with a steady two-finger tan head. The aroma is sweet with chocolate, malty, and a roasted coffee smell. The taste is sweet, roasted coffee, chocolate, malted, and oatmeal. This dark stout has a medium body. Then this beer finishes with a sweet roasted chocolate flavor. The aftertaste is roasted chocolate coffee. This beer is not as full on with the flavors but they are good. I give #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout a B-. The flavors are medium and not as strong as other beers like this one. I’d still recommend it for the fact that it is good and not so big on the ABV. It is well-balanced in flavor. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Pipeworks Brewing Co. Lizard King Mosaic Pale Ale

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This pale ale from Chicago, Illinois, is Lizard King Mosaic Pale Ale. This beer is 6% ABV from Pipeworks Brewing Co. This beer has Mosaic hops as it is part of the beer’s name. This pale ale pours a bright yellow. It has a one-finger quick white head. The aroma is tropical fruit and bitterness. The flavor is lemon at first, then light pineapple, then orange. It is bitter but smooth. This beer has a medium feeling in the mouth. Lizard King finishes with a pineapple orange fruit flavor that is a little bitter/hoppy. The aftertaste is bitter, with a tropical fruity flavor. This beer is tasty. I had another it was that good. This Pipeworks Brewing Co. Lizard King Mosaic Pale Ale is an A+. I highly recommend you drink this. This beer has delicious tropical notes with a nice balance of bitterness and hoppy flavors. It’s well brewed. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Trader Joes Josephs Brau Drive Thru Red

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Drive Thru Red from Josephs Brau (Trader Joe’s) in San Jose California is a dry-hopped red ale. This beer is 7.2% ABV and uses noble Tattnanger hops. This beer gets its name from the giant redwood trees in northern California that you can drive through. This red ale pours a red color with a one-and-a-half finger off-white head. The head is steady but does fade down to scattered clouds. The aroma is malty, hoppy, and bitter. There is a little sweet note as well. The flavor is malty, bitter, semi-sweet, and hoppy. This beer has a medium feel in the mouth. This ale finishes with a light bitter/hoppy note. Then you get an aftertaste of a light, semi-sweet bitterness. This beer is just average, getting a C+. I would like to have more hoppy notes with this beer. That would make this a good beer. I am coming to the conclusion that Trader Joe’s Joseph Brau beers are hit or miss. I like some, then I don’t like others. Please stay safe, be kind to one another, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Fonta Flora Brewery Pocket Lunch

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This beer is Pocket Lunch from Fonta Flora Brewery in Nero, North Carolina. This beer a Belgain-style Kölsch is 5% ABV and is aged on coriander, Earl Gray Tea, elderflower, fresh lemon, and orange zest. This beer uses fresh local well water and 83% local ingredients. This Kölsch pours a yellow color with a two-finger semi-quick fading white head. The aroma is earthy, floral, and spiced. The flavor is earthy, and floral at first. Then it’s spiced (coriander). There is a little burnt flavor. On the back of the tongue, you get lemon and orange. This beer finishes with a spiced floral flavor. The aftertaste is a combination of floral fruit with spices. This is a light feeling in the mouth. I can taste exactly where one flavor ends and another starts. That means the flavors aren’t melding with each other. That’s no good in my opinion. The burnt flavor in the middle is off-putting for a second until the fruity flavor comes in lightly. Pocket Lunch gets a D+. It was a rollercoaster of flavors in my mouth. This beer had been going back and forth between liking it and not liking it. I don’t recommend it. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!