Beer Ratings: Most Recent

Goose Island Beer Company (AB-InBev) Chicago, Illinois

Very good, vanilla balances out the bourbon again. A little better than teh coffee version and a little less good than the cherry, but all things are pretty good here. Vanilla only lightly evident. Bitter finish, some dark chocolate and coffee. Served in a custom-made plastic Goose Island shot glass. Full disclosure - I was bribed with t-shirts and free glassware last night though none of it affected my ratings...

BramBrass Heestert, West Flanders

33cl bottle from Struise Beershop Woesten e-shop. F: thin, dark brown film. C: dark, opaque. A: a lot of dark roasted malts, cocoa, vanilla, woody, dark dried berries, chocolate, coffee, dried fruits, caramel, complex. T: full malty base, light oily mouthfeel, roasted tones, chocolate, dark dried fruits, woody, dark berries, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, bit warming alcohol, bit peppery, nice balanced bitterness, low carbonation, really tasty for the style, enjoyed for sure.

Unverhopft Berlin, Berlin

From tap. Pours hazy yellow, white head. Aroma is estery and hops fruity. Sweet, estery. Fruity. Tropical fruity and banana. Thick sweet fruity finish.

Shiny Brewing Little Eaton, Derbyshire

Draught keg at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester city centre. Mid-gold and hazy with a quickly dissipating white head. Big sweaty apricot, vanilla aroma. Big apricot taste. Cracking malt notes, a sweetness that gives way to hite grapefruit bitterness. Medium thickness to the body with decent but not overly invasive carbonation. Excellent.

Boston Beer Company Boston, Massachusetts

Pours clear jonquil with a good ivory head. Aroma brings malty, resiny hop and subtle bready tones. Flavor yields fresh malt, resiny hops, subtle citrus and biscuit notes. Texture furnishes nice body, peppy fizz, and a grassy hint on the back end. Breakaway from megabrews and embrace craft beer.

Fuerst Wiacek Berlin, Berlin

On tap at Ambasada, Zagreb. Hazy orange, small off-white head. Aroma is lightly hoppy, citrus, berries, hints of banana. Soft grainy and fruity flavour. Drinkable. Soft, easy going, smooth, slightly dull and too thin. Minimal bitterness. Dry finish.

Gorilla Cerveceria Berlin Berlin, Berlin

From tap. Pours hazy orange, white head. Aroma is berry fruity. Sweet raspberry fruity. Light sulphorosh note. Sweet, raspberry sour and lingering fruity far finish.

Lambiek Fabriek Ruisbroek, Flemish Brabant

75cl bottle (bottled: 08 23) from Het Huis van de Geuze webshop. F: for geuze quite big, white, good retention. C: shiny gold, hazy. A: nice sour fruity, woody, funky, brett, green apples, bit sour lactic. T: very light sour fruity more like funky, woody, apples, brett, old hop bitterness, bit lactic, very interesting with very low acidity, very refreshing, fully enjoyed.

Robinsons Family Brewery Stockport, Greater Manchester

Meget mørk rødbrun med rimelig holdbart lysbrunt skum. Mørk malt og lakrids i duften. Mundfornemmelsen er blød og smagen har tydelig engelsk lakrids med let bitterhed og en lang, let bitter eftersmag

Langton Brewery Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire

Cask at the Real Ale Classroom, Leicester city centre. Golden brown, clear with a decent-sized slightly loose beige head. Malty aroma, a little metallic, touch of ash, some cherry notes in the background. Gorgeous taste, sweetness to the fore with some intense bitterness in the second half of the sip. A little weak in the body, little carbonation. But this is a well done beer. Every time I take a sip I discover something new.

Rye River Brewing Company Celbridge , County Kildare

Bottle shared by CC, thanks. Semilasting beige head. Opaque medium brown color. Very fruity plum aroma withabit of almond. Lingering malt sweetness.

Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck Emelgem, West Flanders

Red with thin beige top, from the bottle.The nose was extremely fruity, with dark cherry, pleasant yeast spice, and jam-like sweetness. Medium bodied, the taste followed similarly, adding some cherry skins, alcohol, mellow tartness. Palate is medium, slick, with a fizzy carbonation.

Fuerst Wiacek Berlin, Berlin

From tap. Pours hazy yellow, white head. Aroma is grapefruity to tropical fruity. Solid hoppy, slightly overempowering and unrefined herbal / teaish hoppy. Bitter, grapefruity and teaish finish.

Browar PINTA Wieprz, Silesian

Czarne, nieprzejrzyste, z średnią, brązową pianką. Aromat intensywny, głównie mocne espresso, deserowa czekolada, prażone ziarno, kokos, karmel. W smaku adekwatnie, dochodzi lukrecja, daktyle, kawa, irysy. Wysoka, palona goryczka, długie, wyraziste posmaki, lepka, treściwa faktura, rozgrzewający finisz. Świetne!

Binding-Brauerei (Radeberger Group) Frankfurt am Main, Hesse

I always say, with an ear worm singing in my brain: I won't get fooled again. But it seems periodically, I happen to pick up one of these stupid non alky brews when putting together a sixer of of unrated singles. Doesn't really piss me off and I'd rather do an IPA for a tick, but this one is bot IPA and non alky, blah. At least a regular IPA will have some mind fuzzing alky content for the brutal beer tasting experience. This one smells a little veggie, tastes quite veggie and needs more carbonation. Not really diffing this at all. In the middle it has some tartness appearing but its no consolation. Finishes like an IPA flavored vegan seltzer water. Well, at least I got a tick if not a buzz. There, you have it.