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so more yummy beer reviews shortened from my actual journal but posted here because I will probably eventually lose my actual journal.
New Belgium Brewing
The cool thing about NBB is it has three winter seasonals! An early season bottled, a late season bottled and one that comes out only on tap. This year the bottled beers are nearly identical to last year but the tap beer has changes from AJ (an extordinarily under rated beer) to 2 below. All three are decent beers but here are the specs.
Frambozen-
This NBB rendition of the belgium lambic beers. Well not really even a rendition... more like a tribute. It is not an actual lambic but it is a brown ale infussed with raspberries giving it lambic qualities. The end result is an interesting, refreshing beer that masks it's 6 odd percent alcohol precentage. Good for both the advid beer drinker looking for something new and for the person that doesn't like beer that much but can be lured into the Frambozen's fruit goodness.
8.2 on the McPunky Scale
2 below-
I actually had to go to the NBB webpage to figure out the style of this beer it was so masked. It taste like a bitter but it finishes so well and it is such a balenced taste it didn't believe it was actually a bitter until I saw it in print. It is indeed an ESB style beer, BUT it is so balenced with it awesome hop bouquet and rich carmel maltiness that it is possibly the best ESB I have ever had. This beer defies explanation, a must be tasted to believe ordeal. While the beer itself doesn't rank high overall, being as I don't like EBS, it definately gets extra points for orginality, especially for making a bitter a winter seasonal.
8.9 on the McPunky Scale
Biere De Mars-
This is NBB's late season bottled beer and it is one of those either loved or hated beers. Me I lean more towards the loved it but some of my freinds are more "in love" with it than I. It is scary. They are talking about marriage. I'm staying out of it.
The beer though is an attempt at the classic belgium saison. It works in some ways but it too Americanized in others. The thing that really saves this beer is how yeasty it is. The delicious earthy tones come out in full force yet it finishes too much like an american ale to really pull off the saison coup de tau (or however you fucking say that).
fuck it, it is an ok beer that doesn't live up to it's predesors but it is interesting and worth drinking none the less. Heck try it and maybe you will be on that actually loves it.
7.6 on the McPunky Scale
New Belgium Brewing
The cool thing about NBB is it has three winter seasonals! An early season bottled, a late season bottled and one that comes out only on tap. This year the bottled beers are nearly identical to last year but the tap beer has changes from AJ (an extordinarily under rated beer) to 2 below. All three are decent beers but here are the specs.
Frambozen-
This NBB rendition of the belgium lambic beers. Well not really even a rendition... more like a tribute. It is not an actual lambic but it is a brown ale infussed with raspberries giving it lambic qualities. The end result is an interesting, refreshing beer that masks it's 6 odd percent alcohol precentage. Good for both the advid beer drinker looking for something new and for the person that doesn't like beer that much but can be lured into the Frambozen's fruit goodness.
8.2 on the McPunky Scale
2 below-
I actually had to go to the NBB webpage to figure out the style of this beer it was so masked. It taste like a bitter but it finishes so well and it is such a balenced taste it didn't believe it was actually a bitter until I saw it in print. It is indeed an ESB style beer, BUT it is so balenced with it awesome hop bouquet and rich carmel maltiness that it is possibly the best ESB I have ever had. This beer defies explanation, a must be tasted to believe ordeal. While the beer itself doesn't rank high overall, being as I don't like EBS, it definately gets extra points for orginality, especially for making a bitter a winter seasonal.
8.9 on the McPunky Scale
Biere De Mars-
This is NBB's late season bottled beer and it is one of those either loved or hated beers. Me I lean more towards the loved it but some of my freinds are more "in love" with it than I. It is scary. They are talking about marriage. I'm staying out of it.
The beer though is an attempt at the classic belgium saison. It works in some ways but it too Americanized in others. The thing that really saves this beer is how yeasty it is. The delicious earthy tones come out in full force yet it finishes too much like an american ale to really pull off the saison coup de tau (or however you fucking say that).
fuck it, it is an ok beer that doesn't live up to it's predesors but it is interesting and worth drinking none the less. Heck try it and maybe you will be on that actually loves it.
7.6 on the McPunky Scale