Weekly Beer Reviews

Greetings folks! We have been MIA for a bit as the Holidays arrived with an influx of people. However, we are back to the blog and more determined than ever to update you on our beers!

Brooklyn Fire and Ice Smoked Porter

We start off the tastings with a Smoked Porter out of good ole' New York City. The nose is chock full of roasted coffee, milk chocolate, and raisins. Subtle aromas of smoke and mint leaf intermingle to make a beautiful nose that isn't overpowering in the smoke department. The taste is rather light up front with hints of cream, mint, and smoke. The smoke completely and utterly disappears and leaves you with strong flavors of dark chocolate, cocoa powder, oatmeal, and brown butter. This is a wonderful porter for those cold Winter days.

Mike and Tyler's Rating - 8/10


Southern Tier 2XMas Spiced Ale

Christmas is never over until it is over in your heart...at least that is what we hope you are saying when you look at this last survivor of the Christmas Craze. The nose is quite aromatic with strong hints of mint, sterilized gauze, pine nettles, basil, sage, and cardamom. It definitely seems to smell like a house at Christmas. Well, a house with a live Christmas tree. The taste is overwhelming with strong flavors of pine sap, pine nettles, rose petals, and Pine-Sol. The finish continues that strong flavors with flavors of pine nettles, mint, ginger, nutmeg, and cardamom. If you love the Spiced Christmas Ales, then this one will be right up your alley. However, Tyler and I both agreed that it was far too much.

Mike and Tyler's Rating - 6.75/10


Stone Double Bastard American Strong Ale

I am usually indifferent about this beer. Age seems to help smooth out some of the flavors, but it usually just doesn't have enough oomph for my liking to mask that intense amount of alcohol. With this batch, we have the opposite. The nose is interesting with hints of grass, lima beans, brown sugar, and tons of chapstick. The flavors has hints of licorice before being completely overpowered with intense flavors of pine and hairspray. The finish is intensely bitter with strong flavors of grass and perfume. This beer had so much of that hairspray/perfume flavor that it nearly choked Tyler.

Mike and Tyler's Rating - 7.5/10


Uinta Dubhe Imperial Black IPA

This one has probably caught everyone's eye. First off, Black IPA's are rare as it goes and Utah beers are practically unheard of here. Pronounced Doo-Bee, the name itself will make a few of you turn your heads. The nose is full of hop aromas with hints of mango, pine, soap, prunes, cocoa powder, and floral notes. The taste is full of pine resin with hints of lemon pith, cracked pepper, and water crackers. The finish is lightly bitter and is full of a lovely flavor of prunes, raisins, and dark chocolate that slowly becomes thick and creamy throughout the finish. This will definitely be the class of the night.

Mike and Tyler's Rating - 9/10