Butternuts Tappist Ale

Brewed by Butternuts Beer and Ale
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Garrattsville, New York USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Pouring from their booth at BCTC. Pours a hazed brown with a thin beige head. The appearance was the best thing about this beer, and that’s just sad. Smells like old Parmesan cheese, blue cheese when it’s been left too long and becomes wet and runny. Almost puked on the first inhalation. Smells terrible, really hard to drink. Tastes cheesy, toast and horror. Sweet and tangy. So bad. Absolute bomb of the fest.

Tap, BCTC 2010. Pours a slightly hazy dark brown with a small wispy off-white head. Huge Maytag blue cheese nose, smells kinda like ass, and kinda like cheese. No malt at all, just a whole bunch of weirdness. Tastes like liquid blue cheese as well. I can’t describe how much this walks the line between tasting like shit and tasting like awesome. Medium bodied with fizzy lively carbonation. Pretty sure that I was the only person at the entire fest that liked this, but there’s no accounting for people’s taste I suppose.

BCTC 2010. Medium brown. Tart blue cheese and cherries aroma and flavor. The Blue Cheese Beer. Actually, it wasn’t as bad as it sounds, but it was pretty bad.

[BCTC 2010] Hazy brown amber color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of dirty diapers, light caramel malts, wood, and maple. Taste of light caramel, with some green apple, wood, rye, and dirty yeast.

Cask at Chelsea Cask Fest. Only the mildest maple is apparent in the aroma, some cocoa, diacetyl. Flavor is super dry, banana and clove esters, no Belgian notes. Scummy and dull as hell. The maple is almost unnoticable. This beer kind of comes across (unsurprisingly) like it was made with 75% sugar water for wort and only a bit of real malt. Ah well. Neat idea, certainly. I’d try a much smaller amount of real maple syrup in the wort instead.