Chimay Trappistes Tripel: 3.0 – The closest way to describe this is imagine if a tripel attacked you. It’s got the taste of a tripel, but it’s very sharp and upfront about said taste, is not smooth to drink and the taste itself isn’t super delicious regardless. Maybe there’s a reason for not Chimay
Price Average: $11
Website: http://chimay.com/us/
Chimay Red: 4.5 – We’ve not actually reviewed Chimay here for some reason. Likely to do with the wealth of belgian and belgian style ales. This though is the standard that most people know when it comes to belgians, and as such is pretty much in the middle
Price Average: $11
Website: http://chimay.com/us/
Geuze Boon: 5.5 – By god that has a lot of head, no matter what you do it’s just massive. There’s a fruit/brett like flavor here, with a bunch of wheat like flavors mixed in. It’s an otherwise okay beer in the space it exists in. Meaning that other lambic and sour wheat ales are just frankly getting better.
Price Average: $19
Website: http://www.boon.be/
Gneiss Brewing Co. Weisse: 6.5 – A nice bit of banana, but an otherwise light and easy drinking beer with not much else going on.
Price Average: $5
Website: https://www.gneissbeer.com/
Raspberry Barrel Aged Saison: 8.5 – “The best way to describe this beer is that it just “jives.” A vast majority of the time the barrel ageing process results in a beer dominated by the taste whiskey and not much else. A saison might not be what one first thinks of when one goes to barrel age a beer, but the barrel has been quite kind to the beer in this case. It’s sweet and crisp, with the raspberries revealing themselves in a long satisfying finish. Also, it’s priced more competitively than a lot of its barrel-aged brethren. All around a nice beer to pick up for a special treat.
Price Average: $14
Website: https://www.innisandgunn.com/us/
Cerveza Provisional Farmhouse Ale: 6.0 – The agave aspect of the farmhouse is really nice almost like a sour. Its It’s really nice to drink. Also major props for not only adding agave, but aging in mezcal barrels – it’s nice to see people go beyond just a wine or bourbon barrel for beer aging.
Price Average: $14
Liquication: 3.0 – Great. Just another IPA that’s so much an IPA. Not much to say here other than fuck IPA’s
Price Average: $13 for 12-Pack Sampler
Website: http://www.wachusettbrew.com
Mass Soul: 2.0 – It’s difficult. See it’s a game between what to hate more. The Mass Soul name and icon, or the beer itself. Both are terrible gross approximations, but then the beer is also really bad. That and ‘A Soulful IPA’ – FUCK you.
Price Average: $13 for 12-Pack Sampler
Website: http://www.wachusettbrew.com
James and Julie: 7.5 – Allagash once again finding it hard to screw up a beer have made a unique sour. The start of a brown ale compared to a regular farmhouse or saison gives it a more nutty nuance to the sour. It does have to follow that delicious Ghost Species though this week.
Price Average: $11
Website: https://www.allagash.com/
Ghost Species: 8.5 – That truly is a near perfectly balance sour ale that’s been aged in wine barrels. Normally we’re a bit more middle-y, but this is quite frankly too well executed. It’s also incredibly delicious.
Price Average: $12
Website: https://springdalebeer.com/