Against The Grain Brewery 35K Stout Beer

I’ve been trying to review more dark beers for The Best Beer Blog because I’ve been reviewing a lot of IPA’s, Pale Ales, and similar type beers. I'm reviewing more dark beer not because I don’t like IPA and/or Pale Ales, this isn’t an IPA beer blog. Here is Against The Grain Brewery, 35K Stout Beer, 7.0% ABV. Against The Grain, Brewing is in Louisville Kentucky. 35K Stout Beer pours a black color with a three finger creamy light beige head that sticks and leaves behind awesome lacing. The aroma is roasted with coffee notes and a slight chocolate sweetness. The aroma is quite good. Taste on 35K Stout Beer is roasted up front with a semi-sweet coffee flavor in the middle and a tingle of a faint bitterness at the very end. The mouthfeel is full and rich with a nice chocolate coffee like finish and an aftertaste of semi-sweet roasted flavors that linger there for what seems like forever. 35K Stout Beer surprised me with its flavors and I was expecting it to be more on the bittersweet side of the stout spectrum.  But that wasn’t the case. 35K Stout Beer is an A. I highly recommend 35K Stout Beer for anyone that is into dark beers. I really enjoyed it and look forward to having this Against The Grain Brewery 35K Stout Beer again. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly

Pivovar Prevov Żubr

It is hard to try all the beer of the world. You can just go down to your local beer store and find every beer of every country represented. Some might not even make it into your country where as some do. So you might have do travel the globe to try al the beers of the world. I have here one beer from Poland, Pivovar Prevov Żubr, 6% ABV. Żubr is a Eurpean Bison. I don’t know much about that animal, but if a Polish brewer named a beer after it then it must live in or near Poland. Żubr is a Lager, and pours a nice golden color with a creamy three finger white head that sticks around for a long while leaving behind great white lacing that is there till no beer is left in your glass. The aroma is a little sweet with a sweet corn note and a little slight metallic sent. Taste is nice and crisp with a slight sweet corn flavor alone with a mildly faint biscuit flavor. Żubr finishes clean crisp with a sharpness that leads in to a semi sweet after taste that fades quickly. The mouth feel is light yet crisp with a refreshing quality. Żubr is good but not the best, but so close, it’s an A-. The flavor it just the tiniest bit sweet. Just a pinch more of some malts and it would be perfect. I really like this and recommend Pivovar Prevov Żubr if you ever come across it. I am glad I did! Cheers! Please Enjoy responsibly!  

Granite Falls Brewing Co. Blue Ridge Harvest Series Sweet Cherry Falls

I’ve got another local North Carolina beer, this is Granite Falls Brewing Co. Sweet Cherry Falls, 6% ABV. Granite Falls Brewing Co. is in Granite Falls N.C. This is sour cherry ale from Granite Falls Brewing Co.’s Blue Ridge Harvest Sour Series, and is brewed in the winter cause cherries are the deep and darkest of the stone fruits. Sweet Cherry Falls pours a bright magenta hue with barely any head. The aroma is acidic with candied cherry fruit and a hint of a sour note, as it does warm the flavor becomes more medicinal tasting. Taste on Sweet Cherry Falls is slightly sour at first with a clean lactic sourness then steps into a sweet candied cherry tart note.  The mouthfeel is light and sour, with an acidic and somewhat sour yet tart finish. The aftertaste is tart with a faint sweetness.  The tartness does linger a little in your mouth but it’s not overly strong. Sweet Cherry Falls is good but not as rich as I thought it was going be. So it’s C+. I’d like this to be more complex and less candy cherry tasting. I’d like this to have more of a real cherry flavor. It is a bit on the fake side, but not far enough to make it bad. It is easy drinking and has good flavor. But there are not enough good ones though. I wouldn’t run back to Sweet Cherry Falls. I didn’t find this to be overly exciting nor was it terrible. It was average to me. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

Stone Brewing Xocoverza A Winter-Spiced Mocha Stout

Wintertime is upon us and so is the time for dark beers, such as Porters, Stouts, Dunkles, and other various dark type beers. They warm you with thick rich high alcoholic flavored sips. Stone Brewing in Escondido California brews Xocoverza, 8.1% ABV, which is a milk stout brewed with cocoa, coffee, peppers, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Xocoverza started out in 2014 as a homebrewed beer that won Stones annual homebrew competition. Xocoverza was only to be produced one but due to popular demand they keep on producing it. Xocoverza is Stone idea of a Mexican hot chocolate. Xocoverza pours a quite black color with a thick two finger beige head that sticks around for a while and does leave some decent lacing. The aroma is ashy with a peppered spice and cinnamon note along with a very faint sweet vanilla note. Taste is ashy and slightly roasted at first then a bit of spicy and slight cinnamon comes on your taste buds with some very faint sweet notes. I know this is milk stout but I am not getting much of the common sweetness you get from milk stout. There is a nice roasted spicy note toward the back. Mouth feel is full with a nice spicy pepper coffee finish with much the same on the after taste but with a hint of sweetness and cinnamon. The fact that the spicy coffee masks the sweetness from the vanilla and coca rates Xocoverza an A-. The coffee characteristics are good on this beer, and that makes Xocoverza not have lower grade. This is a complex beer and isn’t for everyone, so I am kind of recommend this beer, but only with caution. I enjoyed it and I like dark spicy coffee beers. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

Pécsi Sörfõzde Pécsi Sör Premium Lager

The United States is a big place with lots of people, people from all over. With airplanes and boats and other intercontinental transportation not every beer in the world is imported into the US. That can either be a good or a bad thing, depending on what beer is being imported in. I’ve never had Hungarian beer, till I was given Pécsi Sörfōzde Pécsi Sör Premium Lager, 5% ABV for a Christmas present. This beer is brewed in the city of Pécsi. Pécsi Sörfōzde is a rather sizable brewing company. Pécsi Sör Premium Lager pours a deeper copper color with a rather large three finger white fluffy white head that leaves behind some good lacing, and there are plenty of carbonation bubbles racing towards the big white head. The aroma is at first much like a lager should smell like but if you take a bit of a longer sniff you get a slight malty note with a faint biscuit note. Taste on Pécsi Sör Premium Lager is clean crisp with some sharpness and semi sweetness and a nice creamy affair on the back. The mouth feel is medium and somewhat creamy feel. Pécsi Sör Premium Lager finishes crisply with a nice clean sweetness that fades into a nice faded after taste that is still crisp and a bit creamy. This was a great Hungarian Lager beer, so Pécsi Sör Premium Lager is an A+. Most of the common of national beers in Europe are much better than their counterparts here in the US. I never understand why that is, and can you really say that the common American beers are American, well they are owned by either South Africans or Belgians. Anyhow Pécsi Sörfōzde Pécsi Sör Premium Lager is a beer that you need to try if you ever have the chance too. I highly recommend that you do. I am glad I did! Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!