Portsmouth Killer B Braggot

Dynamite with a laser beam and guaranteed to blow your mind. The Killer Bee pours cloudy light amber and settles dark red with a murky body. Fully diminishing white head with great legs wrapped in glass of a beautiful challis. Packed with a strong fruity and malty aroma, the killer beer is quite pleasant to the nose and inviting to the palate. Initially heavy sweet, settling to moderately sweet with a strong alcohol presence for an average duration. Medium in body with soft carbonation and oily on the palate. We first tasted this stinger in a 10 beer sampler. We were initially put off by the description of the honey bee provided by our waitress. We were quite surprised when it stood up tall next to most of the other offerings in the sampler, neck to neck with the Abbey Style triple. If you are in the area, you definitely need to stop into the Portsmouth Brewery and challenge the sampler. Note: We were so impressed with this selection, that after the sampler, we ordered a pint and a growler to take home for our 2 beer guys friends and family to enjoy. The beer was quite similar to the Laughing Laird offering produced by Off Shore Brewing company. Without speaking, we knew that we weren’t going home empty-handed. Reviewed on December 21st, 2006 during a trip to the Portsmouth Brewery

(Draft @ brewpub) Like liquid Caramello...Pours burnt orange with a small biege head. Aroma is sweet flowery honeysuckle, along with caramel and toffee as it warms. Mouthfeel is smooth, enticing, sort of sticky in finish. Nice rings of lacing. The flavor is honeysuckle, caramel, honey and toffee. Sweet of course but not overly. Alcohol well-hidden. Like a great candy bar. Very much more like a beer than the only other mead I’ve had which was really wine-like. A great beer to cap off a meal with.

Bottle. Pours a copper-red body with a small soapy white head. Smells vegetal and leafy with brown sugar notes and peat malt. Toasted honey flavour, caramel, and butterscotch in an average heavy body.

Tasted at YeHA! 2006 in Montreal. App.: reddish-copper. Aroma: ROOTBEER, vinous, woody, sweet caramel, molasses and dried fruits, licorice. Palate: med. bodied, med. carbonation. Flav.: sweet, diacetyl, candy, bitter, butterscotch and many of the nose characteristics.

Clear brown body with almost no head. Generic overly sweet butterscotch and caramel mixture with alcohol and bubbles. Drinkable but nothing to braggot about.