Berkshire Brewing Company Oktoberfest Lager: 4.0 – While this is certainly very drinkable in terms of a beer, it’s just not what you want from an Oktoberfest. Sure there’s a bit of the fruit and spices you love, but it’s so muted that it’s like drinking a slightly zestier, but not as good Steel Rail.
Google Shop Average: Berkshire Brewing Company Oktoberfest Lager $5
Berkshire Brewing Company Maibock Lager: 7.0 – I’ve continued to enjoy BBC’s offerings, at worst their beers are standard, and often than not we get something like this. Now I enjoy Maibocks, and I often wonder why more companies don’t do more beers like it and schwarzbiers – either way this is great Maibock, and you can’t beat the price with a stick.
Google Shop Average: Berkshire Brewing Company Maibock Lager $5
Shiner Bohemian Black Lager: 5.0 – While I love Black Lager’s in general, this lacks any sort of power which is why I love Black Lagers, as such it’s another passable beer from Shiner.
Google Shop Average: Shiner Bohemian Black Lager $7 for 6-Pack (with mixed pack)
Website: http://www.shiner.com/
Maine Beer Company Red Wheelbarrow: 4.0 – Now we typically have liked Maine Beer Company’s beers (even went for a tour once), but this promised to give me a Red Ale, but the MBC’s hop-forward taste, and it’s awful. I honestly could not finish it, and that’s truly sad, not so much for them, but for me.
Google Shop Average: Maine Beer Company Red Wheelbarrow $11
Website: http://www.mainebeercompany.com/
DuClaw Sawtooth Belgian White Ale: 2.5 – Imagine Allagash White as this bright vibrant painting of a New Hampshire forest – now imagine these people tried to paint said forest, but only had a paint roller, beige paint, and a lack of an imagination.
Google Shop Average: DuClaw Sawtooth Belgian White Ale $10
Website: http://www.duclaw.com/
Victory Wild Devil Ale: 8.0 – First to be fair as a beer overall this is a 6 at best, and I was tricked into thinking it was a wild ale, when in fact it is an IPA – now I’ve tried many IPA’s but eagle eyed viewers will notice we have no reviews of it (which I’m certain ruins our beer and hipster cred) this is because we hate IPA’s. All of them, like as a category they are basically awful. However for this it doesn’t taste like an IPA (read: weed, your shitty beer tastes like weed you West Coast beer nerds) and while it’s certainly as hoppy as say an American pale, it’s not too hoppy, and there’s other flavors going on as well. So in that regards it gets in 8 for being the only good IPA.
Google Shop Average: Victory Wild Devil Ale $10
Website: http://www.victorybeer.com/
Shiner Prickly Pear Ale: 4.5 – I don’t think I’ve ever had a beer with pear in it, and while it’s a nice tart little thing, I’m not entirely sure I’d have it again though. That might just be the pear though, so I won’t hold that against this too much.
Google Shop Average: Shiner Prickly Pear Ale $7 for 6-Pack (with mixed pack)
Website: http://www.shiner.com/
Ommegang Wild at Heart: 6.5– This is a very flavorful and tasty wild yeast beer, and doesn’t seem to have any drawbacks, but it’s fairly standard as far as unique yeast beers go.
Google Shop Average: Ommegang Wild at Heart $15
Website: http://www.ommegang.com/
Shiner Wild Hare Pale Ale: 6.5 – It’s actually got a lot of nice flavor to it, and isn’t just hop city. These Shiner beers have been mostly middling, but this is certainly the best so far.
Google Shop Average: Shiner Wild Hare Pale Ale $7 for 6-Pack (with mixed pack)
Website: http://www.shiner.com/
Sebago Bourbon Barrel Stout: 4.0 – See the problem I have now when it comes to beers doing specifically bourbon barrel aging is that it’s a misguided attempt (as is the case here), because it just makes the beer too sweet, and not really something you enjoy drinking, but then I remember Allagash when they did their Black in bourbon barrels, and then wonder why everyone else is having such a hard time with it.
Google Shop Average: Sebago Bourbon Barrel Stout $11
Website: http://sebagobrewing.com/