Coal Porter: 4.0 – So I’m beginning to wonder if they literally threw coal into the batch. Because going down this tastes like a nice standard porter, but that lingering aftertaste might as well be coal dust, like It’s almost eerie how akin to coal it is. It’s not exactly a bad porter overall unless you are a serious anti-charcoal fan.
Price Average: Coal Porter $10 for 6-pack
Website: http://www.atlanticbrewing.com/
Le Freak Ale: 2.0 – It’s a combo of a Belgian Tripel and an American Imperial IPA (AIIPA?). Which is actually a good description of this beer. It’s got a strong taste, and I’m sure if you liked it would find this amazing. However I can attest that in my small sample size of a few people (damn you p values!) it’s unliekly you will enjoy this beer. It’s hoppy in all the wrong places, has gravity in all the wrong places – it’s a bastardized combo that shouldn’t exist.
Price Average: Le Freak Ale $9
Website: http://www.greenflashbrew.com/
Well that’s enough whiskies for a while so let’s jump into a massive headache. The entire raison d’etre of this site is to be comprehensive and truthful, but there are downsides. For every diamond in the rough we can often find going across the various shelves and tiers there is often still ‘the rough’. Club Caribe is however so far in the rough an ogre just asked us to get out his swamp. #golfjokes #shrekislife
Liliko’i Kepolo Witbier: 6.0 – Ive likely not had many beers where passion fruit is the main taste, and while I’ve likely had it as part in other beers I can agree with the concept. However because this is a flavored beer I can’t get picky with the niche and have to rate this against all flavored beers in which case this isn’t super stellar. It’s certainly quite good though.
Price Average: Liliko’i Kepolo Witbier $11 for 4-pack
Website: http://averybrewing.com
Maredsous 6 Blond Ale: 7.0 – It’s definitely an incredibly complex beer, even more so for being an abbey blonde ale instead of a quad or tripel. That aspect though might be what kills it, because while it has complexity it lacks the depth and power you would hope it to have, that alone would take it from an admittedly great level into near-perfection.
Price Average: Maredsous 6 Blond Ale $12
Website: http://www.maredsousbieres.be/
We are continuing this (likely extended) month of various whiskies, this time going with a scotch. However instead of this week being some single malt that I either enjoy immensely or wish I had never met – we are doing a blend I picked up way back when I was in the UK. (Damn it’s been 4 months already). I got this because it was cheap, and I knew it wasn’t a scotch I could take my time with having less than a week.
Latte Stout: 4.0 – It’s a kinda tart coffee I don’t really like it and I think know it would only be good with like a raspberry dessert which would kill me (allergic). It’s certainly a distinctive beer, but I’m not sure where the latte comes in.
Price Average: Latte Stout $6 (Draft)
Wachusett New England Lager: 5.0 – That is actually a fairly solid Lager bit it misses the whole defining characteristic of their company which sucks. It’s like they did this as a checklist item of – well guess we should have a lager at this point.
Price Average: Wachusett New England Lager $8 for 6-pack
Website: http://www.wachusettbrew.com
