Brooklyn Summer: 2.5 – It may be the dead of winter but that’s just not a good summer ale. Not sure where the concept of it being sunny is, but there’s just some critical aspects that make this less a nice bright citrusy pale ale and more something that tastes vaguely like what a wet sock would taste like.
Price Average: $20 for mixed 12-pack
Website: https://brooklynbrewery.com/
Apripeche: 7.5 – It’s a tart ale with apricot and peach which you can guess by the name. As always Ommegang delivers as it balances that sweet peach and tart apricot. It’s virtue is by not being a true sour, and really keeping that wheat ale like flavor with the additional fruit and tartness. Overall it’s just nice to drink.
Price Average: $10 for 4-pack cans
Website: https://www.ommegang.com/
Bel-Air Sour: 2.0 – It’s like a halfway between a beer and a sour but spectacularly failing at both. It’s honestly like a warhead that someone’s washed off all the sour – with like their mouth.
Price Average: $20 for mixed 12-pack
Website: https://brooklynbrewery.com/
Big Wave: 6.0 – There is a nice sweet aftertaste here that makes it easy to recommend to others. Overall it’s an okay golden ale – and does little aside from the pineapple-esque taste to elevate this beer into something great.
Price Average: $3
Website: https://konabrewingco.com/
Hopback: 5.0 – It’s an okay amber ale, the flavor of the hops is nicely malted but not super bitter. Overall though it’s fairly benign, and it’s not much to write home (or on this site) about.
Price Average: $10 for 6-pack
Website: http://www.troegs.com/
Cerise Cassee: 7.0 – One of our contributor reviewers stated this as ‘cocaine of beers’. It’s simply so sour but just intensely powerful. There’s just so much going on it’s like walking up, saying hello to you SO, and then running a fucken marathon. Of course, the tart, the wheat, the spice, the other 17 things make this something actually quite difficult to go through, but get yourselves a sample or half pour, or share it with someone you secretly want to kick in the teeth.
Price Average: $16
Country: 6.5 – It’s a nice pale ale with a fair amount of flavor and hops going on. It really helps make it unlike other blander pales. An overall just good beer.
Price Average: $16 for 12-pack
Stackz On Stackz On Stackz: 7.6 – It’s an imperial blonde ale aged on blueberries and maple syrup. Extremely sweet, so you really would only be able to drink 12oz before becoming sick of it. Like most Barreled Souls beers it’s unique, and it tastes like a blueberry biscuit.
Price Average: $7 draft
Website: http://barreledsouls.com/
Horse Tongue: 7.0 – That tart bit of sour and the wheat combine in a way that makes this feel sort of like a red ale. It’s nice and crisp, and that sour is bringing a bit of fruit, but the barrel aging brings it all down to stop it from being overpowering. It’s actually really good.
Price Average: $14 for 22oz
Website: https://avbc.com/
Hop Sounds Dry-Hopped Kolsch: 7.5 – There’s a very unique sort of sweetness going on there that comes back in the long aftertaste. The fruit here is very nice, and it’s a very nice kolsch that does a lot of very nice things.
Price Average: $12 for 6-pack
Website: https://singlecut.com/