Birra Trappista Italiana Tripel: 6.5 – When one hears Tripel one often thinks of one place – Belgium. However sometimes the hooves are actually zebra’s as this comes from Italy. It’s a bit sweet, but the wealth of spice, malt, and flavor isn’t ruined, but accentuated by a lack of any bitterness. It has a nice creamy oakyness to it as well, and is rather pleasant to drink.
Price Average: $10
Website: http://www.abbaziatrefontane.it/
Berliner Weisse Watermelon: 3.5 – Call us suckers, but based on that image this beer should have watermelon in it. Indeed it does, but there’s a tart aspect that’s sort of a quarter-sour-power that kinda spoils the whole thing. It really lacks that sort of nice sharp sweetness a watermelon has, and you wish it was more fruit shandy like instead of a meh sour.
Price Average: $6
Website: http://mikkeller.dk/
The name South Hollow Spirits jogged our memory a bit, and lo and behold – we’ve had their rum. The rum was an overall failure, was barely able to be mixed, and hilarious overpriced. This too is a small batch and is ridiculously priced as well, but mercifully it’s nowhere near as deplorable.
Hylo Sour: 7.0 – That is exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a sour ale, but you clearly get that unique dragon fruit taste. You also get a bit more of wood than smoke from the barrel aging, but it’s in no way diminished the tart. Overall it’s a damn fine sour.
Price Average: $9
Maybe it’s the whole BMD incident from last week, but this being a blend of whiskey and other spirits (not the same thing, but the aroma and taste make it hard to discern.) Apologies we’ve not made it clear – this is a blended whiskey. However as we found out via the back – it’s not a blend of many whiskeys but a blend of bourbon and neutral spirits.
Light Brigade Golden Beer: 5.5 – It’s a nice hoppier beer, while not being too crazy hopped or bitter. It’s not exactly an overall enjoyable beer, the kind you’d enjoy one of, or one once in a while.
Price Average: $5
Website: https://www.robinsonsbrewery.com/
It’s not explicitly clear that this is the same company, recipe, facility or really anything to be tied to Andrew Cabot. (Quick Research Break) Ahh, it’s the ancestor of the current owner – okay that’s enough. Sadly if we had to sum up this rum that phrase ‘that’s enough’ is oddly poetic.
Sapsquatch: 3.0 – It is simply far too much going on. The maple syrup, the barrel aging, add all that to a barleywine and it’s a slightly sugary mess of a beer that’s rough to drink. This is maybe a half pour kinda beer, but it’d be difficult to recommend.
Price Average: $14
Website: https://www.stbcbeer.com/
