Category: beer of the month (page 1 of 1)

May 14, 2012

Beer of the Month Club Batch #2

Lancaster Milk Stout
Brewery: Lancaster Brewing Co.
Style: Milk Stout
Glass: Guinness type pint glass
Look: Dark with a brownish creamy head
Smell: Chocolate, Malt, burnt and roasted coffee
Taste: Roasted coffee, toffee, little bit of a chocolate. Slight sour note. Carbonated
Aftertaste: that after cup of coffee taste

Really enjoyed this but as most of you may know, I really enjoy a good Stout. This really had that good burnt coffee and toffee flavor.
4/5 mugs

Duke of Wellington Pale Ale
Brewery: Granite City Food & Brewery
Style: English Indian Pale Ale
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Glass:Sam Adams perfect pint glass
Look:Amber light with a fizzy head
Smell:Malty, apricots, and almost alcohol like flavor
Taste: Caramel, malty and bitter
Didn’t really care for this beer. It was kind of bland but not in the good way you would expect from a English ale.
35
Wolters Fest Beir
Brewery: Hofbrauhaus Wolters
Style: Marzen
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Glass:Pilsner Glass
Look: Very Translucent amber with decent head
Smell:German malts and honey
Taste:Caramel, malty,  end is kind of puckers lightly carbonated, sort of creamy

Easy to drink.  I enjoy a good OktoberfestMarzen. I would say I’m a little spoiled after sampling a lot while in Germany for 3 weeks last year. This was very drinkable but I wouldn’t say it’s anything special. I actually like Wolters Pilsner more and I’m not a big pilsner guy.
2.55
Wolters Pilsner
 Brewery: Hofbrauhaus Wolters
Style: German Pilsner
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Glass: Pilsner
Look: small head with a golden crisp carbonated look
Smell: malty with grassy notes. small amount of hops
Taste: very light and crisp. Almost sweet with just the perfect amount of carbonation. Great for a nice hot day

Now I’ve never been much of a Pilsner guy. I pretty much turned it down for a week straight while in Germany until one night we ran out of Marzen so we had to pop open the growler of Pils. Since then I have started to open up more to pilasters but haven’t really found any that caught my eye. I actually really enjoyed this one. I could see myself drinking a few of these on a warm day.
3.55


 

April 9, 2012 / 0 Comments

Beer of the Month Club Batch #1

Beer of the Month Club Batch #1

 

*Note: I think some of these may have been tainted due to me using the dishwasher for my beer glasses. Think it gave each beer a weird tinny flavor. I have since started hand washing all my beer glasses

Slick Nick Winter Ale
Brewery: Sebago Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Glass: Cognac glass
Look: Amber translucent pour with a creamy head
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Smell: Caramel and some hoppiness and spicy
Taste: Has an interesting hoppyspicy taste which coincided with the smell. Not much body. I felt this was kind of bland over all

I ended up only drinking one of these and letting others drink the other two. I guess this goes to show how I felt.
2/5 mugs


Black Boss Porter
Brewery: Boss Browar Witnica S.A
Style: Baltic Porter
Glass:Guinness pint glass
Look:Amber with rubyish color with about an inch head
Smell:Dark chocolate, caramel, coffeeespresso
Taste: Darkchocolate and malty. You can’t tell it’s a 9.4% ABV. Definitely drinkable
I really enjoyed thisbeer, so much so that I have been rationing them, I think there is still onehidden in the back of the fridge and haven’t let anyone else try it. Great afterdinner beer.
4/5 mugs
Hobgoblin
Brewery: Wychwood  Brewery Company
Style: English Strong Bitter
Glass:Pint glass
Look:Dark amberish. Head dissipated rather quickly. It was double the size of thebelow picture but quickly dropped.
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Smell:Caramel with an almost maple like smell.
Taste:Subtly sweet with caramel and toffee flavors but still gives you the bitternessof a dark English ale
This was the only beer that I had before andrecognized. I have always thoroughly enjoyed this brew. Great English stylebitter.
4/5
Diamond Bear Pale Ale
Brewery: Diamond Bear Brewing Company
Style: English Pale Ale
*Note: I have mytasting notes labeled as Dales Pale Ale which never came in the beer of themonth packages,  My tasting notes kind ofmatch up with the brochure included blurb so there’s a chance I just had DalesPale Ale on my mind while drinking this.
Glass: NA
Look: Light copper colorwith decent sized head
Smell: sweet hoppy smell
Taste: Malty hoppiness
As you can see, Idon’t have much to say about this and to be honest I don’t even remember thisall that well to add on to my tasting notes. So I think it’s safe to say that Ididn’t enjoy this very much. If I mislabeled the note to be another pale ale, Iwas probably wish I was drinking a different pale ale.
?/5 mugs