Strawberry Rebus: 6.0 – There’s just a tad too little strawberry in this. It’s overall a nice sour ale, not too crazy or tart, but overall you wish that either there was another aspect to the strawberries here or lean into it all the way.
Price Average: $14
Website: https://grimmales.com/
Right. So here at Honest Booze Reviews often a bottle is grabbed based solely on the criteria ‘don’t recognize that’. Now often this can mean we’ll end up with some weird things like vodka finished in cognac, berry gins, and peach whiskies. These by virtue of being offshoots with no baseline end up just not being reviewed. This however we decided we should dig into. We’ve often said that some high tier and well-aged rums or cognacs share a lot of similarities to whiskey. So what about this?
Proème: 5.0 – So you’re in a bar waiting on some food and you order a beer. It takes the bartender about 15 minutes to do this with no less than 4 stops between as they explain, sorry it’s just like this. So the head is an issue. As for the beer itself, there’s not a majro flavor going on, nor is any aspect executed perfectly. It is aside from a long wait time an average farmhouse saison.
Price Average: $13 for 4-pack
When one thinks of Dewar’s one often thinks of the more popular and widespread White Label. Instead of this one which has a label that’s wait. The White Label is a budget scotch, that frankly fails to compete with the likes of Johnnie Walker Red or Famous Grouse, but what if you actually give every whiskey the time to do its work.
Fruitlands Apricot Sour: 5.5 – It’s not really a big sour if we’re being fair. Oh sure it’s nice. You do get some of that fruit there, but overall it’s more a slightly odd but easy drinking ale that a real gose.
Price Average: $10 for 4-pack
Website: http://www.moderntimesbeer.com/
This tequila was absconded from a wedding alongside a bottle of Campari that is 100%, not Campari as it’s not red and smells like death. Okay, it was a gift, but ‘absconded from a wedding’ is our new album name. The tequila itself was thankfully not a disaster to review, and in some respects is well-liked.
Breckenridge Brewery White Ale: 5.5 – Having this in the summer feels wrong, because it feels less like a Belgian white, and more like a Christmas white ale. It’s got sweetness on the tongue and is smooth in odd ways, add the bit of spices and it truly feels like a Christmas in July scenario. Given that though it’s not bad by any means.
Price Average: $9 for 6-pack
Website: https://www.breckbrew.com/
Granola Brown Ale: 5.5 – It has this sort of porter roasted like twist to which is to say roasted granola (although that flavor isn’t outright hitting you over the head). Aside from the mild twist though it is a perfectly fine and serviceable brown ale.
Price Average: $3 12oz can
Website: https://blackhogbrewing.com/
