Category: Booze
Gritty McDuff’s Original Pub Style Pale Ale
Pub Style Pale Ale: 5.0 – It’s a little sweet and nutty, but otherwise fits the idea of a more ‘pub style’ beer you’d expect to get in a British pub, even if it’s not really a ‘pale ale’. As for a typical Maine beer it’s certainly easy to see this more with some hearty winter grub than seafood, but overall it’s a passable beer.
Price Average: $3
Website: https://grittys.com/
St. Peter’s Golden Ale
St. Peter’s Golden Ale: 3.0 – It has much more depth and almost lager like quality over a golden. It’s almost nutty. There is a weird mint like aftertaste, overall it just feels like a wrong grab bag mix of beer flavors.
Price Average: $5
Website: http://www.stpetersbrewery.co.uk/
Harcourt XO French Brandy 750mL
When one thinks of Brandy and France – the mind turns to a single word – cognac. However dear friends it is worth recalling that cognac is a specific region of France and that there is no reason a brandy couldn’t come from elsewhere in the country. The question does hang in the air though – should it?
Allagash Little Sal Ale
Little Sal: 8.5 – It’s not often a mere trio of words can make one salivate, but Allagash, Sour, and Blueberry fit the bill. We don’t talk much about ‘color’ here on HBR because it’s often meaningless, but you pour this and look at the color and know it’s going to be a good time. As for the beer itself, it’s as expected – well executed, the sour is there, but the sweetness of the blueberries means it’s never not enjoyable. If we have a complaint it’s that the local store only sells 1 per customer and that soon enough this will likely be gone forever.
Price Average: $14
Website: https://www.allagash.com/
Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey 750mL
So given our restrictions in reviewing (we don’t know what they are tbh), we have this whiskey which is really more like a rum, simply because it’d been aged heavily by the process, and that matters. Teeling isn’t a typical whiskey, having been aged in rum casks, but we do have some thoughts on it.
Cigar City Brewing American Golden Ale
Cigar City Golden Ale: 6.5 – That is a very good combo of wheat/malt and bread like flavors. This is a very good spring time beer, being delicious and easy to drink, but not as light or pale as a true summer beer. There is a tiny bit of a ‘bite’ to this beer (it’s not the alcohol), that’s intriguing as well.
Price Average: $10 for 6-pack
Website: https://www.cigarcitybrewing.com/
Karlsson’s Gold Vodka 750mL
It’s tasks like these that put phrases into your mind you never thought would be there. Phrases like ‘virgin potatoes’. However, you should be less concerned that something is happening to your regular potatoes as this simply means before they have formed skin they are mashed and distilled into this. A fact which has some benefits, but maybe could have also benefited from being in the ground more.