Old Engine Oil Black Ale: 6.0 – That tastes exactly like you would expect a beer called old engine oil to taste like. It goes down easy – there’s a bit of porter flavor, it’s nearly flat in carbonation, and the color is exact. If honest I am not actually a huge fan of the beer drink wise, but I admire the honesty in the name to bump it up a point.
Price Average: Old Engine Oil Black Ale $4
Website: https://harviestoun.com/
White Birch Nyx: 8.5 – This is just as good as when it was from the apprentice series, and I’m very glad White Birch picked it up despite this (and now other bottles it seems) heralding a change in White Birch’s color scheme. Overall we were worried about the shift from short-batch-ish to production, but for no reason.
Google Shop Average: Title $7
Website: www.whitebirchbrewing.com/
White Birch Nyx: 8.5 – This is one of White Birch’s Apprenticeship series with an American Black Ale, and my god this apprentice is more (you’re out of the job) and less (messes everything up with brooms) kind of apprenticeship. To describe why this beer is a problem let me explain that not only does it taste good, but it makes buying beer a real problem. See we often want to to try more and new things, and then there’s Nyx sitting real pretty at 7 bucks and sometimes we cave. And if that’s not the best praise I can give a beer, I don’t know what is.
Google Shop Average: White Birch Nyx $7
Website: http://www.whitebirchbrewing.com/