Xingu Black Beer

Why I tried this: Ive actually had this one a few times before and enjoyed it. When World of Beer had it it was a delightful surprise. Figured I might as well knock this one out of the way, plus it was a Tuesday and bottles were $1 off.

Smell: Xingu has a sweet, malty, possibly fruity scent. Has a nice mellow scent, if I could get a candle like this that would be fantastic.

Taste: To me this has always tasted like a beer and wine hybrid of some kind. Im not sure how off I am with that but it has a more subtle fruity flavor of cherries or berries. The fruit flavor is blended very nice with a subtle malty chocolate flavor. The flavors work together great and give this beer a very original flavor.

On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give this beer an 8. It tastes great but as with Left Hand Nitro Milk Stout I couldn't drink it all day. Two or three of these would be my evening limit.(This beer tastes nothing like LH Nitro Milk Stout, I just view it as more of a dessert then pounding at the bar beer)

--Jon

This beer is incredible. So dark and tasty. I'd give it a 9 out of 10.

--Jeff

Full Sail Session Black Lager

Why I tried this: World of Beer always swaps out beers that have been hanging around for new ones.  Whenever a beer is being cycled out its put in a special place at the bottom of the draft menu called "Last Call Bottles".  Beers on this list are generally discounted pretty well and who doesn't like to save a few bucks?  To be completely honest Last Call Bottles is the first place I check when I sit down.  Additionally, this is probably the last time you will get to enjoy this beer from WoB for a while.

Smell: Very subtle creamy, coffee, cocoa scent.

Taste:  I thought this was a very tasty well rounded beer.  It was very smooth going down and all of the cocoa, caramel and other flavors are very subtle.  The first thing I thought about was Sam Adams Black Lager but this is much smoother, not nearly as crisp in my opinion.  This beer was very easy to drink and very enjoyable.

On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give this an 8.  This is a beer I could drink and probably enjoy all night.  I would absolutely recommend this beer to people, but I wouldn't say its in my top group of favorite beers. 

--Jon