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Draai Laag Brewing Yodeler Barleywine Ale

Yodeler: 4.0 – This is a clusterfuck of a beer. It’s a barleywine style, it’s aged in Laphroiag casks, and is bottled with that Brettanomyces. But what is it like to drink? It is just as much if not somehow more of a clusterfuck. Let me put this in the oddest, and yet truest way we can – we detect notes of beef jerky. No seriously at certain times this beer tastes like beef jerky. There’s a tartness aspect going on from the brett, that jerky likely from the cask lingers melding with the fruitier tastes, and above all it’s just a high octane noise factory. Let this be a test case, and referral for when we call beers out as not being complex and that’s bad – this is the other side of that curve. This is too complex and it ruins what could be the ‘beer’.

Price Average: $11

Website: http://www.strangerootsbeer.com/

Berkshire Brewing Company Holidale

Berkshire Brewing Company Holidale: 7.0 – The barleywine style makes this as rich as a porter without the middling flavor that most atypical porters have. It’s the kind of beer I can see myself drinking on Christmas eve watching the football game. Which is mostly likely what I am currently doing.

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Google Shop Average: Berkshire Brewing Company Holidale $6

Website: http://www.berkshirebrewingcompany.com/