Xingu Black beer

This was a surprise to me, it looks really black like a porter but really tasted more along the lines of a lighter brown ale. I had this out at Chima Brazillian Steakhouse. This beer is from Brasil, and the Cervejaria Kalser Brasil. This beer tasted around 6% abv. It poors a dark thick black with a thick tan head. It has a nice almost sweet scent with a bit of that roasted malt with just a hit or a good coffee. It has a taste that is very similar to a Newcastle Brown ale, one of my top favs. It's quite good. I really enjoyed this Xingu. Xingu has a nice sweeter and creamer after taste that is not very heavy as it would appear. This does not sit in your gut like a Guinness would, making it hard to eat alot of great meat and such. This is a good beer to have with a nice dinner, goes well with steaks, pork, chicken, and some veggies, mmm yum! I was nicely pleased with this black beer, it was a quick shot right to the top 10 of my favorite beers. I would certainly have this again and again. I would like to have one with you my blog fans! Cheers! Please drink responsibly!

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Terrapin Moo-Hoo

You have heard of stout style, milk stout, and chocolate stout, but this is all of those in one. This is Terrapin beer company's chocolate milk stout. This, Moo-Hoo is a limited release seasonal beer. This will not be around for long. Terrapin uses cocoa nibs and shells from the Olive and Sinclair Chocolate Company.  It pour a dark black with a brown tan head that is quite nice. On the scent of this, there is a nice robust sweet chocolate and sweet coffee, and a hint of beery malts. The smell is like a nice chocolate bar. When you first sip this Moo-Hoo you get that faint coffeness followed be a shaved chocolate that is very sweet due to the milk lactose and the chocolate mixed together. The after taste is the same and it overly sweet. Moo-Hoo is good but not the best ever, it has overly sweetness to it that makes it good, but not and better than that. I like this, but I really love chocolate and sweets. This Moo-Hoo is an interestingly good Chocolate milk stout. Try and see if ya like it. But it will not be around for long. Cheers! Please drink responsibly!

Kona Longboard Lager

Aloha, can you feel the warm tropical breeze, can you see the hula girl dancing under a lush palm tree can you smell the topical salt in the air, can you hear the waves crashing on the beautiful topical beaches as McGarret utters three famous words BOOK 'EM DANO! Yes I just made a reference to the popular tv show Hawaii 5-0. Well it is the beer of the show, but that is not why I like this. This lager is a dortmunder style beer. Longboard is 4.6% ABV, and pours a nice golden color with a medium white head. This beer as a nice crisp clean scent of floral hops and a small bit of apples. This has a good plain hop taste with the tiniest bit of apple. Now on the after taste the hop becomes slightly stronger but nothing overwhelming or to powerful. Longboard is plain but a good kind of plain, it doesn't have and special flavors or ingredients in it. It's not overly mad with hops, extra thick, aged on some fancy woods, nor is it trying to be more like a fine liquor. That is what I love about this, it's simple yet creative and just good. Something refreshing you can drink regularly. Try it, mahalo! Cheers! Please drink responsibly!

LoneRider Shotgun Betty

Lets all be good gentlemen to this lady here, well she does not look like she is very lady like, with her big gun. She comes from Raleigh North Carolina. Betty is a Hefeweizen, a 5.8% abv brew, mild. She pours a nice cloudy simi deep orange color with a nice white lacy head.There is a strong wheat scent with nice malty and banana-cloves, looks and smells good, but when you taste this its not as good as it looks, a bit of a let down. I have had better Hefeweizen, of course German, but there are better American Hefeweizens too. Yes you get that nice wheat taste but it just plain and predictable. Its not excitingly flavorful. This is a bit on the dry side which I don't care for in my Hefeweizen. The after taste is also dry, wheaty yet very predictable on the boring side. It's not that this is a bad tasting beer, it just plain and predictable. Not very much flavor going on it this. I was looking forward to trying one of Loneriders beer and this was a let down. Lots of flash on the bottle and not enough substance in the bottle. I just hope that they're other beers are better so I don't end up dislike this NC brewery. I don't want that! Cheers! Please drink responsible!

Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen

Well here we are looking into yet another German beer, a beer from Ayinger. I really love this brewer, they brew wonderful and such tasty beers. Well this is authentic Bavarian festival lager. October fest is to celebrate the farm harvest. This Ayinger brew is 5.8% abv and I've only seen this in 1 pt .9 oz bottle. No six or four packs. This beer pours a nice copper color with a very thick white head. This one has a nice crisp floral hop scent that is not over powering but it is there with a nice roasted malt scent. Now the taste is crisp like a lager with a nice very faint sweet malt that is great. But on the after taste there is a slightly stronger hoppieness, but not SO strong like an IPA. It's a little amount of bitter hop taste, and then it has a nice clean refreshing after taste mouth feel. This is great but not my most favorite Ayinger brew. This up there though. I love a good German beer. Germans are great at beer brewing. But they brew beers like they make cars. Not the best looking but they preform very very well and make ya smile. That's how this is,plain looking but very tasty over all and when your done, ya smiling. Cheers! Please drink responsibly!

Samuel Smith Organic Raspberry Fruit Ale

When you think of England and its beer you think of a pint of bitter, but yes this is English Ale but it is brewed with Raspberry juice, and other natural flavors. They do brew ale with other fruit. This brewery, Malbourn Bros' is in Stamford Lincolnshire and its blended and bottled at Samuel Smith's brewery in Tadcaster North Yorkshire. This beer is organic. This Ale is 5,10% ABV. This ale pours a dark reddish-purple color with a thick violet white head that is most appealing. Yes, this has a strong raspberry scent leaning on the flowery side, but all over it's a great scent. When you take the first sip it has a huge raspberry taste that is very good, and very pleasing. This is not as bubbly as a lambic. This aftertaste has that slight tart yet sweet raspberry to it. This whole ale has that big raspberry taste. But yes this beer has that good English ale taste behind that massive wall of fresh tasty raspberry. I could see this being a springtime drink in a local English pub, outside looking out at the rolling English countryside. But be careful with this, it is so good and sweet you will not want to put it down and just chug it. This is a refreshing beer, but not a girly beer. It's a bloody brilliant pint, they say in England. So try this fruity ale and you will be pleasantly surprised. Cheers! Please drink responsibly!

Olde Mecklenburg Brewery Dunkel

Well more beer here, Charlotte beer that is. This is OMB's Dunkel Munich-style dark lager. As I said once before OMB doesn't produce anything smaller then 1 pint 6 fl oz (650ml). This dark beer is 4.8% abv, not so strong. Over in Bavaria Dunkel is dark winter lager that goes smooth. This OMB brew is a nice dark amber color a most beautiful beige head that is so large it takes of most of the glass. OMB Dunkel has the tiniest smokey scent with rich roasted nut scent there as well. This Dunkel has that common lager taste, crisp clean malts, and low hop level. But it also has a rich roasted malt taste thanks to the Carafa malt. It has a crisp clean roasted malt finish that is most pleasing. This is a good winter beer to keep away the winter blues. This beer like all OMB beers follows the "Reinheitsgebor" German beer purity law of 1516. That means it's all natural, with no added chemicals or preservatives. So if you are look for a good lighter dark beer then seek this wonderful thing. It is really good and not heavy. I think this would be a great start in the world of dark beer for any beer lover. So go get one now! Cheers! Please drink responsibly!