Showing posts with label lager. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lager. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

World of Beer UCF Tuesday Tumble

Will be heading to World of Beer UCF today. Right now I'm 9 beers behind Jon, and 5 beers behind 9th place. It looks like the top 10 got scared when they saw us hit the board momentarily after one month, and our competition is picking up the pace. Sucks for them, so am I.

--Jeff

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Blue Point Toasted Lager

Why I tried this: After coming across someone talking about Blue Point Brewery on twitter,(twitter.com/beeruken) I decided to message their twitter account.(http://twitter.com/BluePointBrewer) I went to the World of Beer website and saw they carried it so I decided I had to give it a shot.  Hopefully I can meet more and more brewery's like this that can recommend their delicious beer to me.  I thought this was pretty sweet.

Smell: Sweet malty scent with a slight fruity/citrusy scent

Taste: I thought the taste was very well aligned with the scent.  The beer was very well rounded and the flavors worked together great.  The malt flavor and citrus/fruit hop flavor worked together great and gave this beer a smooth easy finish.  I haven't seen this beer anywhere before but if I saw it while out somewhere I would probably get it again for sure.

I would give this beer an 8 out of 10.  This beer has a smooth clean easy finish and all the flavors work together really well.  I will absolutely be trying their other beer that WoB carries the Rastafa Rye the next time I am there. The Toasted Lager has a pretty original flavor that separates it from many lagers available at your typical bar.

--Jon

Thursday, February 10, 2011

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