Jubilee: 8.0 – The way to describe this is like a tripel, but with sweetness. Or like a wild pale with a bit of sour. It’s light and very refreshing, and while it’s hard to gauge how much of that was the Champagne style wine yeast, but the result is something that has a lot going on, and is amazing to drink as well.
Price Average: $11
Website: http://www.victorybeer.com/
Winter Cheers: 7.5 – It’s not exactly clear why this is a winter-y ale or at least a celebration, though there are some things to celebrate about. This should be an all year beer for victory as it’s one of their stronger offerings. It’s a delicious wheat ale with just the right amount of hops.
Price Average: $8 for 6-Pack
Website: http://www.victorybeer.com/
Tart Ten Ale: 6.0 – This is a nicely tart sour beer, not sure at all what brettanomyces is though. (Turns out it’s why the word Brett has cropped up, and it’s the type of yeast. The first sip is a doozy, but it really quickly grows on you.
Price Average: $10
Website: http://www.victorybeer.com/
Victory Twelve: 5.5 – We were pleasantly surprised by our other Victory Brewing Company experience – which as an IPA that was actually – good. Here however they have gone for a beer to be complex and luxurious. In that respect they have succeeded – this is complex in flavor, and in texture. It’s not heavy, but it is potent. The problem though is that while all that is true – it’s not a great beer. If given the option I’d likely never have it again – which sure you can make your beer ‘intoxicating’ but it needs to be good overall to survive.
Price Average: Victory Twelve $9
Website: http://www.victorybeer.com/
Victory Wild Devil Ale: 8.0 – First to be fair as a beer overall this is a 6 at best, and I was tricked into thinking it was a wild ale, when in fact it is an IPA – now I’ve tried many IPA’s but eagle eyed viewers will notice we have no reviews of it (which I’m certain ruins our beer and hipster cred) this is because we hate IPA’s. All of them, like as a category they are basically awful. However for this it doesn’t taste like an IPA (read: weed, your shitty beer tastes like weed you West Coast beer nerds) and while it’s certainly as hoppy as say an American pale, it’s not too hoppy, and there’s other flavors going on as well. So in that regards it gets in 8 for being the only good IPA.
Google Shop Average: Victory Wild Devil Ale $10
Website: http://www.victorybeer.com/