A schedule change brought several KOTBR to Rod and Jess' place instead of an expected trip to the northside. We pulled together four beers, a mélange de quatre if you will, and decided to go with the ever-popular haiku style of review writing. The good-ole 5-7-5. Did you know that the haiku was originally referred to as a hokku (an opening verse of a poem) until a poet and literary critic coined the term for when the poem was by itself. What's that? Get on with it already? Huh, that's what she said.
Lost Abbey Red Barn Ale - 3.17 Mugs
hot, spicy, grassyappearance is hazy straw
refreshing but dry
back at my farmhousemy olive oil is yellow
tastes of peppered soap
Yeasty apple noseSurprisingly refreshing
Golden light mouth feel
Champagne, cardamomAn unexpected saison
Fruit and spice are nice
Meaty and HammyRoasted beast olives brine
Golden floral time.
Mike 3.0 mugs | Chris 3.6 mugs | Jess 2.2 mugs | Rod 3.55 mugs | Gina 3.3 mugs | Matt e 3.4 mugs
KOTBR Score - 3.17 Mugs
Green Flash Trippel - 2.97 Mugs
where are my damn notes?I don't know what happened here
memory like Mike
if you ever drinkstay away from paint thinner
rough on the stomach
A whiff of sournessGood thing I like celery
O non sequitur!
Apple cinnamonIs that sauerkraut? Oh no!
Dimethyl Sulfide!
Cloudy and headyFizzy or fuzzy grassy.
Lets' roll in hay.
Mike 2.5 mugs | Chris 3.2 mugs | Jess 3.0 mugs | Rod 2.7 mugs | Gina 2.9 mugs | Matt 3.5 mugs
KOTBR Score: 2.97 Mugs
Avery Fourteen - 3.32 Mugs
dark brown with tan headsmells like an Avery beer
thick, candy mouthfeel
everyone will saythat this smells like tootsie roll
but I said it first
Ugh...this is heavyNo Doc Brown, not lit'rally
Chok-lit...I give up.
Molasses in noseBrown sugar and strawberry
Tastes like Avery
Molasses and hops.Chocolate cookies sprinkled.
What about more?
Mike 4.14 mugs | Chris 3.26 mugs | Jess 3.2 mugs | Rod 3.3 mugs | Gina 3.125 mugs | Matt 2.9 mugs
KOTBR Score: 3.32 Mugs
Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti ($11.99/22 oz. btl Kahn's Fine Wine and Spirits) - 2.51 Mugs
nose of coffee-soaparboraceous, demitasse
young, needs to be aged
like safe oral sex?here's a beer flavored for you
condom or balloon?
Cryptid coffee beerAdd exactly one guest soap
Grandma Yeti's house
Vanilla coffeeHint of bourbon, dry ending
BOOM it's chicory
Lavender coffee.Black tea, hops, and condoms.
Yeti is that you?
Mike 1.75 mugs | Jess 2.1 mugs | Rod 3.8 mugs | Gina 2.5 mugs | Matt 2.4 mugs
KOTBR Score: 2.51 Mugs
* Side note - Upland Cherry Lambic is nicely aging. It's MUCH better than when it was fresh.
In Seattle, I used to go to a bar called Tap House. They had over 100 beers on tap. Out of all those beers, Oak Aged Yeti was the worst beer I ever had. It tasted like some sort of chemical compound. I think Mike nailed it on the head: condom flavored.
ReplyDeleteWe should point out that this was the Espresso Oak Aged Yeti - I had the (non-espresso) Oak Aged Yeti (or was it the regular ol' (non-oak-aged) Yeti?) on tap at Bodega in Columbus, OH and enjoyed it quite a bit - so much, in fact, that when the Espresso version came out, I had to have it. And I had oak aged Yeti at GABF and remember it fondly.
ReplyDeleteOf course the high expectations only increased my disappointment with with Espresso version. Yuck.
In any case, Great Divide must have a lot of success with the beer - after all, they've got three versions of it.