Category: Booze
Firestone Walker 19th Anniversary Ale
Firestone Walker 19th Anniversary Ale: 5.0 –We’ve actually had the 15th Anniversary (seriously though who celebrates 19 years though?). We found that lacking despite giving it a full-blown style review as a special beercation review. This has some better taste to it, but overall it’s high and low points are much the same.
Price Average: Name $23
Website: http://www.firestonebeer.com/
Berkshire Brewing Company River Guide American Wheat Ale
River Guide American Wheat Ale: 6.5 – Once again Berkshire delivers a solidly good ale for a damn good price in big bottle. The nuttiness and the wheat here are great, and if I’m honest Berkshire is one of those companies that I want to just keep making more and more beers.
Price Average: Name $5
J&B Justerini & Brooks Rare Blended Scotch Whisky 750mL
There is a certain kind of irony of saying “rare” on your bottle, despite being one of the most well-known and prolifically sold whiskies in existence. It’s kind of the beanie baby situation, except it might be preferable to take a beanie babies innards and distill that into a spirit. If that’s not a large enough spoiler before the the fold – here goes.
Mahr’s Brau Bamberger Original ‘Mastodon’ Lager
Original ‘Mastodon’ Lager: 7.5 – That is simply a delicious lager. There’s complexity to it but its not an overpowering drink with flavors that make it too heavy, or difficult to drink. Quite honestly – you should try this.
Price Average: Name $9
Website: http://www.mahrs.de/en/
Oxbow Town Line Porter
Oxbow Town Line Porter: 6.5 – that is a dark drink. While it certainly has gravitas and a bit if coffee to it this is a dark porter in terms of taste ans color. It’s like a coffee porter with a black ale. Sadly its not very drinkable like some black alea
Price Average: Name $8 draft
Website: http://oxbowbeer.com/
Sangre de Vida Mezcal 750mL
Our first proper Mezcal review! Mezcal is something HBR has had occasionally usually at a restaurant or bar, but we’ve never actually gotten together and sat down to actually reviewing a bottle. Overall Mezcal is made the same way as tequila, and like champagne Tequila merely signifies a region in which it’s made. This region however is so prolific that it’s de-factor standard, and too a certain degree Mezcal’s are often looked down upon as an inferior product.
Jack’s Abby Kiwi Rising
Jack’s Abby Kiwi Rising: 5.0 – Damn a double IPL? I was foolish to think a Jacks Abby draft would suit me. That being said the hops are center stage and are too much. Thankfully the tropical and pepper flavor provides some complexity. I now want to try a tropical shandy with this. The problem with that though is a beer should be good on it’s own.
Price Average: Name $11 for 4-pack
Website: http://jacksabbybrewing.com/