Sylph Farmhouse Ale: 6.0 – It has a bit of real tartness that is very prevalent. It otherwise though is simply a delicious farmhouse ale.
Price Average: Sylph Farmhouse Ale $13
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Category: Booze
Lagavulin Distillers Edition Double Matured (2015) 750mL
Once again we have a distiller’s edition that feels worse than the original, costs more, and you sort of feel that maybe scotch shouldn’t be done by a committee – but at least more than 1 person. Distiller’s edition’s have always baffled us, because it’s usually done more as an experiment, or to take what is often a more ‘generalized’ product and make it niche, jack up the price, and go. The problem is that they become novelty to buy once, when it really should be something better.
Brouwerij de Molen ‘Engels’ Bitter Ale
Engels 7.0 – This did not start well with the massive amount of head (not even a big beer), but the taste is a great mix of malty, bitter,and tartness. Quite frankly it tastes delicious and is dangerously easy drinking.
Price Average: Engels $9
Website: http://brouwerijdemolen.nl/en/
Oak Pond Brewing Nut Brown Ale
Nut Brown Ale: 6.0 – That is a really nutty ale, and I mean really nutty. I enjoy it, but its more a curiosity instead of a thing I’d go back to. This was a gift from one of our old reviewers as the beer from the town he was born in (Silent Hill), which is in the middle of Maine so this is sort of a hard find for you dear reader.
Price Average: Nut Brown Ale $?? Gift, and can’t find price
Website: http://www.oakpondbrewery.com/
Blanton’s The Original Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey 750mL
Unlike Dimple Pinch, I actually knew a piece of popular culture that this whiskey is used in, notably John Wick. Now John Wick is an amazing movie for many reasons, but after a very hard day, John relaxed with this whiskey to dull his pain on recommendation by Winston. The whiskey itself is actually quite good, and it’s easy to see why it was chosen for a piece of prop design.
Kapuziner Weissbier
Kapuziner Weissbier: 6.0 – It’s got a nice light flavor to it, and there’s a bit of almost banana in there. It is also very drinkable. Not as complex as you would hope though. That could be biasing on the name sounding like a Zaku from Gundam, but it’s really just a light slightly nutty/banana weissbier.
Price Average: Kapuziner Weissbier $6 draft
Website: http://www.kapuziner.biz/en/kap/
Honest Weight Tom Swamp Road Stout
Tom Swamp Road: 6.0 – That is exactly as light as you can get with a stout before people stop calling it a stout. What it lacks in depth, density, or complexity it makes up for in how easy it is to drink.
Price Average: Tom Swamp Road $8 draft
Website: http://www.honestweightbeer.com/
Glenfiddich (US Exclusive Bourbon Barrel Reserve) 14yr Single Malt Scotch Whisky 750mL
The image below does a decent job of catching how blue and striking this case and bottle are, but it’s certainly not the same thing. One would think something like this would have happened before what with the whole movie industry getting behind the teal-and-orange color palate, but it’s refreshing to see on a liquor store shelf. The scotch overall though is classic ‘fiddich.
