Anheuser-Busch Wild Blue Blueberry Lager
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Co.
St. Louis, MO
See this monstrosity but twice as worse. Wine piss. The worst beer in the world. There I said it. All right, that's a little bit of drama but this is hardly beer-like whatsoever. Tastes like one of those off Kool-Aid brand gallon jugs of grape drink you get at the grocery store for $1.59. Overwhelming grape flavor in an 8% abv all-lacking "lager".
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Mississippi Mud Black & Tan
Mississippi Brewing Co.
Utica, NY
Not to get all racial here with the ambiguous beer name and Southern stereotypes but this is Bell's Oberon if it was a black beer. This sucka got soul too. A resonating citrusy sting covered in a rich lather of swamp mud. This combination makes for a mellowing match of two opposite creatures into one symbiotic stew brew. Soul food and salad. Salt and pepper. Michael Jackson. Black and tan.
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Stroh's
Pabst Brewing Co.
San Antonio, TX
One of my friends in conversation about this blog asked if I'd ever tried Moosehead. I replied that I hadn't. "How can you write about beer if you've never had Moosehead? That's rubbish!" Which is a valid point. Not that I'm going to try Moosehead now but I probably should. Despite my love of craft brews I'm not against people drinking the cheapies. I drank about 20 glasses of Molson/Labatt or whatever the hell it was at a party over the summer and boy was it refreshing from the keg! I didn't taste anything or get any drunker than I was from various microbrewed 12 ozs but it sure was creamy and refreshing. On to Stroh's! There's a light sweetness and mildly hoppy essence to the thing and lots of color. That's about all besides the headache you get the next day from just one of these. Oh, and it used to be a Detroit brewing monolith. Plus it has a great label and cap. I have a feeling that most macro reviews would pretty constitute what has just happened here: lots of anecdote and very little content on the actual beer being reviewed.
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Young's Oatmeal Stout
Young & Co.
London, England
There's a fatberry vibe to this mild malty stodger and a Swisher's Sweet worth of smoke. Chocolate and coffee are at a minimum and that's OK because the toasted barley and fruit carry the day. And with daylight savings time kicking in the darkness is only getting longer and darker and the daylight even sweeter to hump and hold and call your own even with the reprecussions of winter on tap.
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Atwater Block Shaman's Porter
Atwater Block Brewing Co.
Detroit, MI
Early morning Sunday au jou. Syrupy and sappy fruit in this thin lacquer(prononuced lacker and not lick-coor). I'm reminded here of Anchor's Happy New Year and that's mostly good except that this a porter and that is a festive seasonal beer. Porters should have a shaman's powers of transport and mutability so that the spirit changes temporarily into something favorable and fantastic before returning to its natural state. Good, but so what? I want great and this leaves me still wanting.
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Atlantic Bar Harbor Real Ale
Atlantic Brewing Co.
Bar Harbor & Portland, ME
I expected this to be a bit lighter in color but as is it's a smoky brown with very subtle hints of malt and a sharp but not overly bitter hop flavoring. Dry as gritty sand but a pleasant enough taste until you touch the dregs and then it gives off a sweeter more caramelly brown sugar smokiness. I'm not exactly thrilled with this brew and put next to their Coal Porter and B. H. Blueberry Ale this ranks a distant third. I'm not opposed to drinking it but I won't go out of my way to find it again.
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Goose Island Oatmeal Stout
Goose Island Brewing Co.
Chicago, IL
After a disappointing first meeting with Goose Island in the form of the Nut Brown I didn't really know what to expect with this one. It turns out that it's a fine oaty. All the expected traits are here: chocolate, smoke, coffee, oats and creamy sweetness that melds well to the schwartzy aqua. That a six pack is several dollars cheaper than a 4 pack of Spammy Smith Oaters makes it that much more a boner in a bottle.
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Jolly Pumpkin Fuego del Otoño
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
Dexter, MI
$7 for 1L 9oz bottle
Cloverleaf Fine Wine & Spirits
Southfield, MI
The last of the quad triumvirate sans trois of J. Pumpkin that I needed to try. The main difference between this one and the standard fare Pumpkin brew is the hop tingle at the end which tries to mask itself in the form of a roast toasty chestnut. I'm assuming that the chestnut flavor is the hop itself. Then again I've compared their offering to bobbing apples, Brach's spiced gum drops and the nectar of the Gods themselves so who am I to comment on anything. I'll tell you who! I'm a friend of Ron. Ron Jefferies. Whether he knows it or not. Put this one in the Hall of Fame with the others.
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Dark Horse Too Cream Stout
Dark Horse Brewing Company
Marshall, MI
$1.67 12 oz bottle
Cloverleaf Fine Wine & Spirits
Southfield, MI
Take the bottle and pour it deep into the glass and when the last bubbles froth and foment at the festering fizz top shake the last drips of the bottle onto the surface of the beer. You'll see little bubbles shoot off the top and slide like electricity to the glass sides and die there. This really has nothing to do with this beer but it's something I've noticed from doing a few times now. All right...deep hued chocolate, coffee smoke, burnt wood and a mild sweetness in the taste dregs at the roof of your mouth. One of the best stouts and cream stouts I've ever had.
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Rogue Shakespeare Stout
Rogue Ales Brewery
Newport, OR
$5.49 for 22oz
Bonanza Party Store
Livonia, MI
I'm done dropping $5.50 for a bomber of stout or porter when I have some of the best makers of those styles in-state for a few dollars more for three times as much beer. Sure, it's great and stouty and sweet enough to harden my nipples but it's merely paying for a name and a cutesy bottle, not a better product. Plus it's time to start stocking up for my winter beer festival and you painted Shakespeare and your rogue friends are not invited. Well, except for Santa Rogue, but he's available in 12 ounce discounts and maybe the distinct and off-kilter selections but no more standards. Oh yeah...there's some hops in here and smoky coffee.
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Duyck St. Druon De Sebourg
Brasserie Duyck
Jenlein, France
$1.67 12 oz bottle
Cloverleaf Fine Wine & Spirits
Southfield, MI
There's a Jihadist fair weather cloud at the head of this amber mellow fruit and a champagnesque rainfall beneath. Seeing as it's from France it's more than appropriate that's it poured into and pictured in a Budweiser glass. Pffft! The king of beer meets the biere de merde. I had worse things to say in jest but refrained due to readership problemo potential plus I didn't really mean it. Typical hefe-weizen flavors but lighter and more malty and with a fruity essence that is pleasing enough. I quaffed, I peed, I kissed $1.67 goodby-e-e-e-e.
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Moorehouse's Pendle Witches Brew
Moorehouse's Brewery
Burnley, Lancashire, England
$3.49
Bonanza Party Store
Livonia, MI
On the way to get this brew(I happened across it and wasn't in search of this one) I saw a brutha riding a ten speed carrying a 12 pack of Bud Light and I thought, "Now that's a real man." I then continued on in search of Hitachino Nest Beer and found both the Weizen and Sweet Stout but cheaped out in favor of a Rogue Shakespeare Stout and this faulty malty wort squirt. Yeah, cold wort through and through with a squirt of caramel and maybe honey. It gives the impression that it's trying to be a bock and maybe it is one considering the connotations of goats and satans and witches this time of year. It also reminds me of the Helmar Big League Brew (which nobody knows and thus I sound more esoteric) minus the toastiness of that peculiar beer. Not strong enough to grow a wart on yer nose but not offensive either. Just so-so minus the Halloween o'gram on the bottle.
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Huyghe Delirium Tremens
Brouwerij Huyghe
Melle, Belgium
$7.99 for 1L 9.4oz
Busch's Market
Plymouth, MI
We all know what this one offers: Belgian dessert spice champagne beer. It's good and there are no drinkability issues. The problem? As with all the fancy Belgians packaged in $300 suits they are overpriced. I suppose this is due to being imported and being touted by those in the KNOW as the crème de la crème but the American Belgians like Ommegang ride the same gravy train of charging $10 a wine-sized bottle. Don't be a cheap ass, right? Right. Well, there's always the Jolly Pumpkin option. Generally $7 or less for brews that surpass the Belgian's Belgians. Of course there is an availability problem there for some and the Hipahipa/Mahalo plenty issue but that can be remedied. I've even considered buying a bus and being the craft beer distributor for the country driving back and forth bringing local beers nationwide. Hell I can even hire clowns and dancing girls to tout the beer. Are you in or are YOU IN?
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Stockyard Oatmeal Stout
Stockyard Brewing Co.
Chicago, IL
$4.99 for a mixed 6 pack
12 oz bottle
Trader Joe's
Northville, MI
contract brewed by Goose Island
I suppose that on the day the great Bo Schembechler dies and especially on the eve of the legendary annual rivalry game between Ohio State and Michigan I should be drinking bitters, but it's not to be. Smoke rules the roost here with a caramel essence which approaches wortesque. But smoke smoke smoke and an underpinning of slightly bitter coffee. A nice oatmeal stout minus the normal sweetness which is just as well.
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Heather Ale Ltd. Grozet Gooseberry & Wheat Ale
Heather Ale Ltd. / The Brewery Craigmill
Lanarkshire, UK
$2.49 for 11.2 oz bottle
Merchant's Fine Wine
Dearborn, MI
Smells a little like Mary Juana and tastes a little like I'd imagine it would taste. Yeah yeah, I'm the last homosapien who hasn't done the weed or pill thing. Hence my miraculous ability to say nothing of substance about the taste of beer. Oh well. What a funky little beer. Nothing like the other two Heather beers I've had. A foggy medium color with a synergy of bitter and sweetness accompanied by a menthol like face plate that straps you in for the ride whether you like it or not. It doesn't quite do it for me.
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Heather Ale Ltd. Ebulum Elderberry Black Ale
Heather Ale Ltd. / The Brewery Craigmill
Lanarkshire, UK
$2.49 for 11.2 oz bottle
Merchant's Fine Wine
Dearborn, MI
There is a lot going on here and most of it is unique to me to say the least. Much of the flavor is a roasted chocolatey malt that tapers off to a sweet and sour combination of fruit which obviously must be the elderberries. I've drunk it down so fast as to maybe miss more but it's pretty much a stout being transmogrified into an ale's body and not leaving out very much of the heavy creaminess. Along with the Kelpie this is one of the best off style beers I've had in a while. There's a four pack of the Heather varities for around 8 bucks and I highly recommend that you try this stuff for no other reason than it's not even nominally standard fare.
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St. Peter's Cream Stout
St. Peter's Brewery Co. Ltd
Bungay, Suffolk, England
$3.99 for 1 Pint .9 oz bottle
Holiday Market
Canton, MI
One of the great bottles in the modern répertoire of brewing. Couple this with a great smokechoco flavor and you have the makings of greatness. Top this off with a flick of cherry sweetness and dessert is served and propagated to a new level of delectability. The cost is high but the flavor is commensurate though so are many cheaper quality stouts. Or we could do as the Koreans do and pour not our own drink but everyone else's in hopes that we may also not buy our own but drink from another's stock of fine imported suds.
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The two newest members of the beer glass family: Spuds McKenzie and Mr. Oktoberfest Detroit (I'm kind of partial towards Mr. Okt.). Both are from the 80s and were had on the cheap from the Salvation Army thrift store. I am high class afterall. Next up on the agenda is to find Christmas glasses followed by Winter Seasonals and Christmas beers. Don't all hold your breath in anticipation of such exciting events.
And now...introducing your starting lineup for the 2006-2007 Winter Seasonals and Christmas beers:
Not a very eclectic group so far but I only started looking a week or so ago.
Any suggestions?
Leinenkugel's Berry Weiss
J. L. Leinenkugel Brewing Company
Chippewa Falls, WI
$1.49 for 12 oz bottle
Merchant's Fine Wine
Dearborn, MI
Berry sweet. Berry wine-coolerish. Berry un-beery. Berry unbeerable. Dump it down the drain right now. This is one of the few pour outs I've had besides Grizzly Peaks Pale Ale and Blue Dawg. It literally tasted like a bottle of thin sweet syrup and thus I had to put her down! Y'all.
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Kiuchi Hitachino Nest Sweet Stout
Kiuchi Brewery
Ibaraki-ken Naka-gun, Japan
$6.49 for 1 Pint 5 oz bottle
Bello Vino
Ann Arbor, MI
An explosive milky foam forms from the first touch of liquid to the glass barrier of the thin mug. It exudes a typical stouty smell and hue but the sweet and sour lactose malt brings you down to the rare form and lays it all on you. Reminiscent of the Bell's Cherry Stout's sweet and sourness just not to extreme degrees and no real signs of smoke. But a decent chocolate and a fleeting caramel taste in the afternotes and that makes this what nothing else is. For the price I got this at it could be a regular in my hovel of misfortune.
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Erdinger Oktoberfest Weissbier
Erdinger Weissbräu
Germany
I don't approve of dancing in any form including mock celebrations of mock dancing. But seeing as Sept. is @ (<---progressively kool blog fundamentals) hand it goes with the season. Frollicking couples on the bottle, minstrels and swordsmen on the faux-stein, and the germinating suds on my tongue. There is a thick gauze of silk on the surface of this honey nectar of malty caramel. Unlike the dull, hoppy and brooding Hofbräu Okt this one leaves a thin and welcoming lacquer on the tongue that never tires. On par with Sir Paulaner, S. A. Oct this is one of me favorite non-darks.
Hofbräu Oktoberfest
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Hofbräu Oktoberfest
Staatliches Hofbräuhaus
München, Germany
As the season commands okts and punkies shall move to the forefront whenever I can find them. I've even considered a mini-midwest tour to find the local seasonals but that's just my wanderlust talking. As you can tell I've not mentioned this prickly little poisoned hefe well-water yet and with good reason. It's a portly unpleasant mild-bitter dry with a flavorless bread malt sediment that sticks like Elmer's glue to the tongue-tip. It does very little but stain thee. The equivalent of a hard water generic ginger ale on sale at Wal-mart for 49 cents a 2 liter.
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Sierra Nevada Wheat Beer
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. |
Chico, California
$7.99 for a mixed 6 pack
12 oz bottle
Good Time Party Store
Northville, MI
"Chop your head off
Be a lighter person
Brighter person
Nicer
But you've heard it all before"
--Nellie McKay
That's exactly how this beer makes me feel(pardon my prissy choice of music lyrics): a lighter, brighter, nicer and more unheadstronged person. Add a little medium cheddar and it almost feels like summer under a fat canopy during a rainstorm. The citrusy lemon sun is smoldering behind the clouds, the hop buds are singing and swaying on the stalk, baseball baseballbaseball and more baseball. What else do you need but a hammock and a good peephole through the picket fence to spy on your neighbors while laughing at their follies and foibles, sipping away at the biting little beverage from the stout little bottle. A bee flies by, a graph of intersecting airplane vapor trails criss cross in the sky, meat crackles and spits on the grill and you wave your hand in an arc against the deep deep blue air and shoooo away the honey grappling furry buzzer and commence with weightlessness. This is Oberon with a soul. Damn all of you Humanists who disagree.
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Bell's Amber Ale
Bell's Brewing Co.
Kalamazoo, MI
$7.99 for a mixed 6 pack
12 oz bottle
Good Time Party Store
Northville, MI
Batch 7600 August 17, 2006
Effervescent as a high school cheerleader, mottled as a 45 year old street walker and more floating pieces in it than a retired pro running back's broken knee. This one will slime the glass as the puffy moiré head receeds and that's something to be grateful for. Why? Because it's like a pollination and your digestive system is the recipient of this sexual flower. There's even a hint of cinnamon in the floating amber protozoa pond refuse and that's enough to seduce you into a commonly held belief that Bell's equals love and love is everything. Not everything but for an amber it's pretty damn close.
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Speakeasy Prohibition Ale
Speakeasy Ales & Lagers
San Francisco, CA
$7.99 for a mixed 6
12 oz bottle
Good Time Party Store
Northville, MI
I'm no beer snob, enthusiast, or connaisseur and this is to be evidenced by my drinking this beer through a piece of black licorice. Let's face it, my palate is never going to grow to like these bitter ego-centrist, CFR-loving, hegemonic beers of terror. Now I'm blowing bubbles with it through my makeshift straw and it still tastes like straw colored Listerine, mellowed Pine Sol, pre-farted acid bubbles, URINE(pronounced the Aussie way: YUR-IIIII-NE), jet fuel, fishbine. But the good thing here is that no brewers or their mothers were hurt in the making of this review.
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Kiuchi Hitachino Nest Real Ginger Brew
Kiuchi Brewery
Japan
I don't know why but the owl has me in its grips. Partly because I expected Japanese beer to be mediocre for no other reason than most imported ales are. But then again these are the moral equivalent to fine american microbrew ales and then some. A lingering unidentified spice(maybe it's the yeast) in here is reminiscent of the prevailing funky tangy spice prevalent in most Jolly Pumpkin beers. Then there is a swath of ginger, honey and maybe even soy? But sweet/sourness seems to win out in the end over the anasceptic ginger and wins big. Ichiro Suzuki big. Sadaharu Oh big. Big as Godzilla and hungry as hell.
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Bell's Kalamazoo Stout
Bell's Brewing Co.
Kalamazoo, MI
$7.99 for a 6 pack
12 oz bottle
Hiller's Market
Plymouth, MI
Batch 7236 Feb. 2006
There is a message board outside of the local Salvation Army Church that reads: "Tired of the stink of the world? Try the pew inside." And I say onto thee: "Sick of the beer of the macro world? Come check us STOUT!" Ah ah ah. I think nothing suits a beer this stout as a two beer super glass (as pictured back and front). Rich and full as a black can get, this is more like lifting a small barbell than a pint of dark water. Stuck fatly with chocoffee, malty barriers and a slight hop bruskness it embodies the quintessential dark without getting mysterious or risky or risqué. I can't believe that I haven't reviewed this one seeing as I've drunk enough to drown a penguin. Ah- well...it's snowing outside(this was last week) and I've filled the bird feeder(again last week, picture from this week) and I'm going to watch the little warblers, wrens, sparrows, cardinals and occasional blue jay swing and feed and fight for the warmness of a good seedy meal.
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Great Lakes Moondog Ale
Great Lakes Brewing Co.
Cleveland, OH
$7.99 for a mixed 6 pack
12 oz bottle
Good Time Party Store
Northville, MI
I'm not sure if this is considered a summer beer but it sure gives that feel. Liiiiight citrus, mild hops and a buttery malt finish that seems to hold and suspend the hops from becoming demonic. Something see-through and breezy to laugh over a joke with a friend on a June evening while you pull in fish after fish, tearing out pieces of their intestines, lips, and gills with your bloody tools of oppression and then wash your hands clean of it in the murky oil laden water and then murder another worm impaling it on a hook. Ah- yes summer, how I miss thee.
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Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout
Samuel Smith Old Brewery
England
I haven't had this beer since last Christmas Eve and it tastes nothing like I remembered. Very overwhelming powdered cocoa flavoring along with a decent backing of smoke. However the cocoa taste is more sweet than chocolate and the oatmeal is lost somewhere in Wilford Brimley's lap while he gesticulates on television telling YOU what YOU need to do about diabetes. I'm going to tell you what you need to do friends: drink the stouts and porters even if it means losing every limb to the amputeer's sawblade. We'll all klunk our stumps together in silent revelrie while toasting the Dickens out of the joy we found in chocolate malt.
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Stone Smoked Porter
Stone Brewing Co.
Escondido, CA
Where there's smoke there's fire and where there's a fire there's drunk college guys getting college girls very drunk for the taking on a damned dirty mattress in the woods. Otherwise smoke signifies outdoor grilling or something catastrophic. What's catastrophic to me is the pairing of food. Food gets in the way of the taste for me. I prefer to eat between beers or to snack lightly if I feel like I'm getting drunk. Then again I'm tipsy after two beers no matter what preparations I take. Alright, I'll save you the drunken preamble...this is a fine porter. All the prerequisite traits of porter but so smooth that you can gulp it down like an amber beer on a hot sunny day. It ranks among the top porters, if not the best, but the cost is a little prohibitive. If I had to choose to buy this over Bell's, King or Anchor I'd definitely go with a sixer of any of those for a few dollars more than this 22 OZer.
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In contrast to most beers - which are made from and flavored with barley - Jeffries uses the carbo- hydrates found in chestnuts as a source of flavor in the beer. Jeffries makes a mash from barley and boils the chestnuts. Once combined, the barley mash, which is full of enzymes, helps break down the starches in the chestnuts and removes the nuts' flavor.
Kaiser Xingu Black Beer
Cervejaria Sul Brasileira
Brazil
$7.99 for a mixed 6
12 oz bottle
Good Time Party Store
Northville, MI
(pronounced shin-goo)
This thing starts out as a cow-herder's delight chock with heavy malt. Then the shell game of flavors and non-flavors starts. Here a twang of some undistinguishable hop-like remnant, there a swath of hard country water, everywhere a conveyance of uncertain traits that never quite come through. It's like putting beer through a cheesecloth and tasting what was once a beer but now is only the ghost of that beer. Hey, there's even some caramel and light coffee in the dregs. Live amongst the dregs and prosper I tell you.
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Traverse Stout
Traverse Brewing Company
Williamsburg, MI
$1.59
12 oz bottle
Merchant's Fine Wine
Dearborn, MI
I've read only scathing reviews of this creature and I'm not quite so sure why people are so offended by it. Sure, it's sour and spicy à la Jolly Pumpkin, but it's also rather stouty with a musclar backbone. I can't say it is my favorite dark but it certainly rivals the Madrugada Obscura (or what I remember of that goddamn impossible to find beer-friend) and that says a lot to me when it's on par with the craft's craftiest craftsmen. I have to admit that I didn't expect what I found here when I opened the bottle and got what I thought was a hoppy burp from the bowels. But it's sour and dark and as strange as that sounds it's a winner from top to dregs.
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Brouwerij De Bie Hellekapelle
Brouwerij De Bie/D'Hellekappelle
Belgium
$2.49
11.2 oz bottle
Holiday Market
Canton, MI
I bought this mainly because it had a flying witch on the bottle and because those in the KNOW buy Belgians and quaff their face off whilst looking down their up-turned snouts. But because I'm semi-human and obstinate I've refrained from putting this into a dainty European Warsteiner glass and opted for a thick European Grolsch glass and thus probably have erred and am off the Trappist Wire Tap of Americans to Watch Who May or May not Try to Import Trappist A-List Beers into the Country Illegally Against Decree of the Self-Annointed and Sheepishly Adhered to Command by their Devoted Minions. So there's this caramel and malt and a nonstop battle to keep whatever is in the spice pack floating near the bottom in circulation with the rest of the beer. It's not working and I'm assuming that under this sweet film of delectable water I am going to get a mouthful of suntin' suntin'. Here comes the sediment! MMMmmm...Ok, so it wasn't very dramatic. Maybe a light cinnamon, honey and let's just say arsenic to sound esoteric and brave. No signs though of the fruity sweetness others have harped and hollered about.
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Bell's Wheat Eight Ale
Bell's Brewing Co.
Kalamazoo, MI
$7.99 for a mixed 6
12 oz bottle
Good Time Party Store
Northville, MI
Batch 7133
Nov. 7, 2005
A dark-eyed hefe-jo-hefe. So much malt and wheat in here that I'm having visions of the Cream O' Wheat guy grinning, grinning, grinning with his hat aplomb and his face sardonically assured of his and the breakfast meal's excellence. Much darker and more caramelly and smokey than I'd expected. I like eet, eet's goot. It nearly approaches a heavily cremed coffee sort of taste before falling back into the hefe half-way house for abused wheat and pine. The star in the spoked wheel of Bell's numbered wheats.
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Unibroue Trois Pistoles
Unibroue Brewery
Chambly, Quebec
$7.99 for a mixed 6
12 oz bottle
Good Time Party Store
Northville, MI
Three pistols eh? Maybe that's not what it means and why would it? But I'm sticking with my ignorant observation in lieu of something more intelligent and learned sounding. All of the Unibroue selections that I have tasted make me think of hefeweizen to some extent and this one is no exception. Normally I say that with a thumb downturned, a nose upturned(as if!) and no glory whatsoever but not this time. Not my favorite type of beer but this is quality like all of their brews are. There's a bockish caramel-wort taste and a little licorice? Root? Something with a black hand grabbing the tongue and stretching it to places unknown. There are minor flotilla which seem to be little more than garnish, but hell maybe they are giving off all the taste. Anyway lots of leafy and minty essence here. Almost like an icy hot peppermint stick with a candy bar rhythm jumping through a mist of alcohol sprinkler and sliding all the way to the edges of the boneyard invigorating even the dead.
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