KOTBR #69 - Flashed in a Red Barn by a Fourteen foot Yeti...If you know what I mean

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, grassy
appearance is hazy straw
refreshing but dry

back at my farmhouse
my olive oil is yellow
tastes of peppered soap

Yeasty apple nose
Surprisingly refreshing
Golden light mouth feel




Champagne, cardamom

An unexpected saison

Fruit and spice are nice

Meaty and Hammy
Roasted 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 drink
stay away from paint thinner
rough on the stomach




A whiff of sourness
Good thing I like celery
O non sequitur!




Apple cinnamon

Is that sauerkraut? Oh no!

Dimethyl Sulfide!

Cloudy and heady
Fizzy 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 head
smells like an Avery beer
thick, candy mouthfeel




everyone will say
that this smells like tootsie roll
but I said it first




Ugh...this is heavy
No Doc Brown, not lit'rally
Chok-lit...I give up.




Molasses in nose

Brown 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-soap
arboraceous, demitasse
young, needs to be aged




like safe oral sex?
here's a beer flavored for you
condom or balloon?




Cryptid coffee beer
Add exactly one guest soap
Grandma Yeti's house




Vanilla coffee
Hint 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.