Birra Trappista Italiana Tripel: 6.5 – When one hears Tripel one often thinks of one place – Belgium. However sometimes the hooves are actually zebra’s as this comes from Italy. It’s a bit sweet, but the wealth of spice, malt, and flavor isn’t ruined, but accentuated by a lack of any bitterness. It has a nice creamy oakyness to it as well, and is rather pleasant to drink.
Price Average: $10
Website: http://www.abbaziatrefontane.it/
Berliner Weisse Watermelon: 3.5 – Call us suckers, but based on that image this beer should have watermelon in it. Indeed it does, but there’s a tart aspect that’s sort of a quarter-sour-power that kinda spoils the whole thing. It really lacks that sort of nice sharp sweetness a watermelon has, and you wish it was more fruit shandy like instead of a meh sour.
Price Average: $6
Website: http://mikkeller.dk/
Hylo Sour: 7.0 – That is exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a sour ale, but you clearly get that unique dragon fruit taste. You also get a bit more of wood than smoke from the barrel aging, but it’s in no way diminished the tart. Overall it’s a damn fine sour.
Price Average: $9
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/
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/
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
Fruitlands Apricot Sour: 5.5 – It’s not really a big sour if we’re being fair. Oh sure it’s nice. You do get some of that fruit there, but overall it’s more a slightly odd but easy drinking ale that a real gose.
Price Average: $10 for 4-pack
Website: http://www.moderntimesbeer.com/
Breckenridge Brewery White Ale: 5.5 – Having this in the summer feels wrong, because it feels less like a Belgian white, and more like a Christmas white ale. It’s got sweetness on the tongue and is smooth in odd ways, add the bit of spices and it truly feels like a Christmas in July scenario. Given that though it’s not bad by any means.
Price Average: $9 for 6-pack
Website: https://www.breckbrew.com/
Granola Brown Ale: 5.5 – It has this sort of porter roasted like twist to which is to say roasted granola (although that flavor isn’t outright hitting you over the head). Aside from the mild twist though it is a perfectly fine and serviceable brown ale.
Price Average: $3 12oz can
Website: https://blackhogbrewing.com/