Soho Park Lager
Soho Park Lager: 3.0 – It’s simply way too light for a lager, and has an unpleasant metallic taste. Looking back it’s highly likely that because this isn’t a typical beer it’s possible to be a watered down concoction stored improperly.
Price Average: $11
Website: N/A, visit a New York Bier Garden in Central Park
Sixpoint Brewery ‘The Crisp’ Pilsner
‘The Crisp’ Pilsner: 3.5 – This is a pils for the hipster IPA crowd. The hops and bitterness here are not everything there is to the beer, but theres certainly a bunch. The word ‘crisp’ is appropriate we guess.
Price Average: $11 for 6-pack
Website: http://sixpoint.com/
Grand Macnish 15 Yr Sherry Cask Blended Scotch Whisky 750mL
Grand Macnish has still been one of the favourites of the Buffalo Lounge, the reason being like all of our well spirits – it’s cheap, but not shite. We’ve formally reviewed the 12 year and informally have had the 150-anniversary version, and suffice to say – this is the worst of the lot.
Great North Aleworks Robust Vanilla Porter
Robust Vanilla Porter: 7.0 – Has the right amount of depth of flavor, not too much vanilla. Despite the robust name it’s not very heavy at all, and is easy enough to drink.
Price Average: $7
Website: http://www.greatnorthaleworks.com/
Woodstock Inn Autumn Brew Ale
Autumn Brew Ale: 5.0 – That is all winter nutmeg and pumpkin spice despite just being an autumn ale. Not a huge fan to be honest.
Price Average: $10
Website: http://woodstockinnnh.com/brewery/
3 Major Updates for October
Greetings folks, and to those who find us via Google or follow along weekly – just a bit of an update. There will be no posts (Spirit/Beer/Wine) for the month of October. We’ll be taking a break to make serious headway on three upgrades to the site itself detailed below.
- An updated look – you may noticed our temporary look due to some overall backend updates, but we’ll be doing a few things in regards to styling, some page changes, changes to the cocktail page, an updated contact and FAQ page, and more. This includes
- The Stats Page – as you see in our posts we mention a stats page, but if honest it’s not been updated in years since we moved and expanded, and it doesn’t include beer or wine. We’ll be updating that into something that’s actually useful. This is the main reason for the time off as even doing this semi-automatically from database scripts will take time to clean and process the data. Once it’s up though it’ll be much easier to keep regular updates on it.
- Finally we are changing (may have seen last week) Manliness to Honesty. No before a bunch of ‘oh PC culture is ruining everything’ folks get up in arms – kindly sit down and shut up you cunts. When we started this endeavor we weren’t even called Honest Booze Reviews (back on the Nerdfit site) but we needed a term. Something that captured the text on the bottle, the look, how it made you feel, whether it was classy, or rugged, but mainly true to itself. It was the X-Factor, but we couldn’t think of a good word to catch all of that so we went with a broad term of manliness (being mostly male reviewers) and that was that. Recently though our head writer had a conversation with someone (at a bar) describing the site, and that category, and the person said ‘Well if you’re Honest Booze Reviews, why not make it Honesty and review that?’ After discussing with the others the lightbulb of an idea caught fire, and now it’d be dishonest to not change it – because quite frankly it’s not because it’s ‘PC’. It’s just better. And if you don’t like it? Fuck off. We’ll be going through the backlog and updating, and aside from direct reference to the metric name the text and scores will remain the same.
Now we’ll be back to regular updates for November and December (as it’s the holiday’s and our busiest site traffic months). So see you all then.
Harpoon Frost Hammer Doppelbock
Frost Hammer Doppelbock: 6.0 – It’s an okay doppelbock, but it leaves you wanting more. Don’t misunderstand, we wish more companies would do beers like doppelbocks, schwarzbiers, and not IPA. That said this feels too ‘samey’ like there’s a blandness to it overall that sadly stops it from fantastic and settling for good enough.
Price Average: $8
Website: https://www.harpoonbrewery.com/