Foliage Report: 7.0 – It’s a dubbel which is a welcome sight after not seeing one for a while. It is appropriately enough crisp and malty with some spices. Not insanely good but the right kind of beer you’d want drinking outdoors in the fall.
Price Average: $4 for full pour
Website: https://www.allagash.com
Dickermann: 3.0 – It’s a nice light beer with just a bit of spice and clove sort of flavor. It’s okay, but forgettable almost instantly, which is unfortunate given the uncommonness of lagers and Helles style.
Price Average: $3 for single can
Website: https://oozlefinchbeers.com/
Pisces Gose: 2.0 – It’s not a great gose. The sea water aspect they mention adds saltiness, but it’s not really tasty.
Price Average: $13 for 4-pack 16oz
Website: https://risingtidebrewing.com/
Peanut Butter Milk Stout: 6.5 – That does what it says on the tin baby – which given the words peanut butter and milk stout is awesome. You get a little bit more peanut butter at first, but it’s got an almost creamy vibe towards the end. (Editor’s Note: we apologize for the usage of the words creamy vibe whilst discussing a beaver beer). As far as peanut butter beers go we prefer Ballast Point’s Victory at Sea, but then we also haven’t reviewed that on the site. For this – aside from the lingering aftertaste being a weird mesh of flavor instead of just more nuttiness is the real sour point.
Price Average: $12 for 6-pack 12oz cans
Website: https://belchingbeaver.com/
Wandering Haze: 6.5 – Taking another chance on Hazy IPAs to see if there’s a trend, and the answer is yes – Hazy IPAs are the way forward for the IPA type of beer. (Okay Milk IPAs too). There’s hops and bitterness, but there’s also a healthy amount of citrus and it’s incredibly pleasant to drink.
Price Average: $10 for 4-Pack 16oz cans
Website: https://www.ciscobrewers.com/
Black Cherry Sour: 4.0 – So last week we reviewed the Blueberry sour, but in real time this was sampled roughly an hour after it. The prevailing theory is however, what the hell difference is there? The color is certainly changed, but the taste – it’s so subtle a change to be non-existent. Just another mediocre sour that has as much black cherry flavor as a La Croix.
Price Average: $20 for 12oz 8-pack
Website: https://smuttynose.com/
Blueberry Sour: 4.5 – It barely even tastes like blueberry. Sure it’s clearly a sour, and the lingering aftertaste of cereal is certainly the low point. However the main problem is there’s no high points. It’s not crazy or wild or delicious – just inoffensive.
Price Average: $20 for 12oz 8-pack
Website: https://smuttynose.com/
Caaaabulous: 3.5 – We don’t normally rate/describe/care about color like many other sites and reviews do because – well who really gives a fuck what shade of reddish brown it is? However it’s inescapable here – this shit is red, like blood wine dark red. Given it’s a wine aged sour that makes 1000% amount of sense, but damn. As far as taste goes, it is very much a sour beer with some wine flavor. However there’s two problems. The first is the lingering aftertaste of cereal which isn’t great. The second is you’d expect the wine to add sweetness here even if it is Cabernet – but it’s all dry. The result is something you wouldn’t mind a small tipple of, but really not much more.
Price Average: $10 for 32oz Crowler
Website: https://wormtownbrewery.com/
Kriek Mythology: 8.0 – It’s been a good decent while since a sour actually knocked us on our ass, recently it’s been awash of subpar and mediocre outings. Everything just having a hint of tartness, and sadly very little funk. It’s not too much a surprise that the skunkworks of Jack’s Abby in Springdale did well here. Their past outings were a mix, but down to the barrel. As for this? Well you are gonna have to like cherries friend, but it is shockingly tart, incredibly refreshing, and fruity as well as funky. When you ask for a sour you are asking for some wild shit, and this fits the bill.
Price Average: $15 for 500ml
Website: https://springdalebeer.com/
Trail Haze: 5.0 – Well we’ve recently had a fairly good lucky streak with Hazy IPA’s, but given the Pils last week – expectations are sufficiently lowered. However the result here is downright pleasant if a bit boring. It’s soft with a decent hoppy and bitter flavor, but nowhere near sharp. It’s easy to drink, but mostly forgettable and not really flavorful.
Price Average: $20 for 15-pack sampler
Website: https://sixpoint.com/