Brewski Guide

Betty is a very light beer it reminds me alot of a really good belgian beer, except for one thing, theres no spices. The beer enters your mouth with a very light almost wheat beer flavor. This beer is deffnately easy drinking, but it almost feels watered down, or overly filtered. The fizz to this beer almost makes it feel like there might be spices in it, but there hardly there if they are. This beer seriously makes me crave a white rascal, this beer isn’t quite a wheat beer but it tastes like one and makes me want one.

Sweaty Betty Blonde by Boulder Beer (7.3/10)

This ale reminds me a lot of a framboise i had in Belgium. Its a really refreshing ale thats packed with raspberry flavor. The raspberry flavor is really crisp and very slightly tart, it mixes really well with the beer. The raspberry its basically most of the flavor, i feel that this beer would be really good for someone that doesn’t really like most beers. This is piratically a girly drink, with the cold hard face of a manly beer. Its light its refreshing and it would be my pick for a nice day outside. This is easily one of the best fruit beers i’ve had.

Wild Raspberry Ale by Great Divide Brewing co. (8.9/10)

This is a nice light pale ale with a different approach to the hops. The hops don’t come on immediately and you mostly get the bitterness rather than the primary flavor of the hops but the bitterness actually really isn’t bitter at all, its completely settled down by malt but you can still taste it which its pretty cool. The hops almost have an olive taste to them its quite good. This is such a odd pale ale because it had some mild sweet hops in it, they really don’t stand out but if your looking for them you’ll taste them. The aftertaste is a very mild hoppy taste thats not bitter. This is a pretty good pale ale but its very mild, it doesn’t really have alot of the normal flavors associated with it, its still good though however i wish the hops came though just a tad bit more. Another awesome thing was this beer was originally Brewed back in 1985, the year i was born!

Blue Heron Pale Ale by Mendocino Brewing Co. (8.2/10)

I’ve avoided this beer in the past because usually i don’t like Asian beer, rice and beer usually is gross, unless your doing sake bombs. However great divide pulled it off with flying colors. Its got a nice standard ale flavor but its much lighter, its almost as light as a cheap pilsner, but its got the flavor of a proper ale. The rice flavor is so mild its there the entire time but its very mild. Theres a nice roasted barley flavor that comes though right after the initial taste. When the beer first enters your mouth its a very standard ale taste but quickly blends into a nice complex rice and malt flavor. This is a great ale because its extremely light but still packs good flavor.

Samurai Ale by Great Divide Brewing Co. (8.0/10)

This is a crisp fresh beer with plenty of sweet tasty orange flavor. The orange is absolutely nothing like the orange you’d normally find in a wheat beer, its more like freshly squeezed orange juice mixed with a light lager or something. The beer is creamy too when it goes down, its quite good. The most major flavor is the orange though, this beer is pretty amazing because of it, the orange is just so fresh its fantastic.

Orange Blossom Cream Ale by Bufflo Bill’s Brewery (8.7/10)

This is Unibroue’s summer seasonal, but its a very different twist to the summer ale, rather than being well, flavorless and gross they decided to brew ale with apple juice and spices. When the beer first enters your mouth you get a spiced ale flavor, but then it begins to meld into the apple juice which is strong but very well balanced with it’s spices. The spices blending into the apple flavor give it a nice spiced apple flavor, like cinnamon apples but with coriander. This beer doesn’t taste that much like a cider though, its its own thing, completely unique. Never in my wildest dreams could i have imagined a beer tasting like this, its really wonderful, and unique. Its like this little gem you only get this summer if your lucky enough to be able to find it. Its an even better gem when you look at American’s laughable seasonals.

Ephemere by Unibroue (9.8/10)

This is a fairly malty IPA, however the hops are still strong and theres still some moderate bitterness. The malts really shine through on this one, thats what i really liked about the other beer i had from palisade. The malts have a somewhat roasted coffee taste. The first thing you taste when this beer enters your mouth is the hops, there somewhat floral, a bit dry and bitter but still good. The malts really cover up most of the bitterness.

Redtruck IPA by Palisade Brewery (7.9/10)

This is a really great porter, the honey is the most domminat in this than any other beer that says it has honey in it. The malts taste very roasted which bring out a really nice blend with the honey. The honey gives the beer a nice wash and you get the honey flavor though most of the taste. I really like this porter, its well rounded and still tastes alot like an English porter. The only thing i wish this porter would have is maybe a little cocoa malts to go with the roasted ones, making it a little more smooth.

Honey Porter by Sam Adams  (8.7/10)

This brown ale is packed with flavor, i love everything about it, it has a nice roasted malt flavor and the brown ale flavor is fantastic, and it smells wonderful. The beer is thick and satisfying. The primary flavor is the malts, they seem chocolaty and you can smell and taste this roasted nut malty flavor. Honestly i can’t find anything i don’t love about this beer, i think its possabley the best brown ale I’ve had. This is a fantastic brown ale.

Buster Nut Brown Ale by Ska Brewing (9.4/10)

Mothership wit is a good wheat beer but its not as thick as most, I’d have to say that this maybe the lightest beer ever. The wheat flavor is good and very natural tasting. Its very crisp, and refreshing. I this a really nice wheat beer, but i prefer a bit more of a spiced wheat beer this one feels a little skimped on the flavor.

Mothership Wit by New Belgium (7.3/10)