Maybe it’s the whole BMD incident from last week, but this being a blend of whiskey and other spirits (not the same thing, but the aroma and taste make it hard to discern.) Apologies we’ve not made it clear – this is a blended whiskey. However as we found out via the back – it’s not a blend of many whiskeys but a blend of bourbon and neutral spirits.
Light Brigade Golden Beer: 5.5 – It’s a nice hoppier beer, while not being too crazy hopped or bitter. It’s not exactly an overall enjoyable beer, the kind you’d enjoy one of, or one once in a while.
Price Average: $5
Website: https://www.robinsonsbrewery.com/
It’s not explicitly clear that this is the same company, recipe, facility or really anything to be tied to Andrew Cabot. (Quick Research Break) Ahh, it’s the ancestor of the current owner – okay that’s enough. Sadly if we had to sum up this rum that phrase ‘that’s enough’ is oddly poetic.
Sapsquatch: 3.0 – It is simply far too much going on. The maple syrup, the barrel aging, add all that to a barleywine and it’s a slightly sugary mess of a beer that’s rough to drink. This is maybe a half pour kinda beer, but it’d be difficult to recommend.
Price Average: $14
Website: https://www.stbcbeer.com/
Strawberry Rebus: 6.0 – There’s just a tad too little strawberry in this. It’s overall a nice sour ale, not too crazy or tart, but overall you wish that either there was another aspect to the strawberries here or lean into it all the way.
Price Average: $14
Website: https://grimmales.com/
Right. So here at Honest Booze Reviews often a bottle is grabbed based solely on the criteria ‘don’t recognize that’. Now often this can mean we’ll end up with some weird things like vodka finished in cognac, berry gins, and peach whiskies. These by virtue of being offshoots with no baseline end up just not being reviewed. This however we decided we should dig into. We’ve often said that some high tier and well-aged rums or cognacs share a lot of similarities to whiskey. So what about this?
Proème: 5.0 – So you’re in a bar waiting on some food and you order a beer. It takes the bartender about 15 minutes to do this with no less than 4 stops between as they explain, sorry it’s just like this. So the head is an issue. As for the beer itself, there’s not a majro flavor going on, nor is any aspect executed perfectly. It is aside from a long wait time an average farmhouse saison.
Price Average: $13 for 4-pack
When one thinks of Dewar’s one often thinks of the more popular and widespread White Label. Instead of this one which has a label that’s wait. The White Label is a budget scotch, that frankly fails to compete with the likes of Johnnie Walker Red or Famous Grouse, but what if you actually give every whiskey the time to do its work.
