ZiegenBock Texas Amber

20170630:
I didn't make any instantaneous notes on this ZiegenBock Texas Amber. I eventually noted, however, that it tasted more neutral than the Revolver Blood and Honey I had earlier. In particular it was not sweet, and it was definitely not amazing. In fact, overall I found it was at most a run-of-the-mill ale. 7:41PM ET

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ZiegenBock Texas Amber

Relevant Links:
Ziegen Bock Amber (RateBeer.com)
ZiegenBock Amber | Anheuser-Busch (BeerAdvocate.com)
Ziegenbock (Wikipedia.org)

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Website Description:

ZiegenBock Texas Amber

THE BEER!

Our Texas Amber is an American-style amber lager, pouring dark but brewed to be smooth and medium bodied. A blend of U.S. and imported hops imparts a hint of bitterness to balance out the malty sweetness from darker malts, giving it a crisp yet sweet finish. 4.9% ABV.

Revolver Blood & Honey

20170630:
The beer tasted sweet. There was some bitterness, but there was also a malty aftertaste.

Apparently the beer has honey in it; how interesting. 6:11PM CT

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Revolver Blood & Honey

Relevant Links:
Beers Page (Revolver Brewing Website)
Revolver Blood & Honey (RateBeer.com)
Blood & Honey | Revolver Brewing (BeerAdvocate.com)

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Website Information:

BLOOD & HONEY
American Wheat Ale – ABV: 7% IBU: 20
An unfiltered deep golden ale made with malted two row barley and wheat. The brew is finished with Blood Orange zest, local Texas honey and other spices that bring special flavors to this unique beer.

2015 Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve Late Harvest Riesling

20170629:
The dessert wine went well with the cobbler. It wasn't overly sweet. It was not as sweet as some of the sweetest wines I've had before. 10:21PM CT

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2015 Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve Late Harvest Riesling

Relevant Links:
2015 Grand Reserve Late Harvest Riesling (Kendall-Jackson Website)

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Website Information:

Grand Reserve
MONTEREY COUNTY
LATE HARVEST RIESLING
2015

The Grand Reserve Late Harvest Riesling is harvested in late November. With each sip, you're greeted with a concert of stone fruit flavors with aromas of fully ripe summer nectarine, jasmine honey and elusive, exotic spice. 375ml

APPELLATION: Monterey County
COMPOSITION: 100% Riesling
VINEYARDS: Harvested in late November, the Monterey County's hillside and bench vineyards delivers citrus and floral notes to the wine.
PRIMARY AROMAS & FLAVORS: stone fruit flavors with aromas of fully ripe summer nectarine, jasmine honey and elusive, exoctic spice
FOOD & WINE PARING: butterscotch panna cotta
IDEAL SERVING TEMPERATURE: 50° F
IDEAL GLASS SHAPE: dessert

Saint Arnold Fancy Lawnmower

20170629:
Compared to the Fire Ant Funeral I had earlier, this beer had more of a pale ale taste and less bitterness. It had no bitter aftertaste. 10:20PM CT

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Saint Arnold Fancy Lawnmower

Relevant Links:
Our Year Round Beers (Saint Arnold Brewing Company Website)
Saint Arnold Fancy Lawnmower (RateBeer.com)
Saint Arnold Fancy Lawnmower | Saint Arnold Brewing Company (BeerAdvocate.com)

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Website Information:

Fancy Lawnmower

A true German-style Kölsch. Originally brewed in Cologne, this beer is crisp and refreshing, yet has a sweet malty body that is balanced by a complex, citrus hop character. Multiple additions of German Hallertauer hops are used to achieve this delicate flavor. We use a special Kölsch yeast, an ale yeast that ferments at lager temperatures, to yield the slightly fruity, clean flavor of this beer. Fancy Lawnmower Beer is a world class brew yet light enough to be enjoyed by Texans after strenuous activities, like mowing the lawn.

Saint Arnold Fancy Lawnmower Beer is best consumed at 35-45° Fahrenheit.

Recommended pairings: Blackened fish, salads, and grilled veggies.

Original Gravity: 1.045 (11.4° Plato)
Bitterness: 16 IBU
Alcohol Content (ABV): 4.9%

Malty: [XXX_______]
Hoppy: [XXX_______]
Body: [XX________]

Awards:
Gold Medal, Great American Beer Festival, German-Style Kölsch, 2010
Gold Medal, Great American Beer Festival, Kölsch, 2007
Bronze Medal, Great American Beer Festival, Kolsch, 2006
Bronze Medal, Great American Beer Festival, Kölsch, 2000

Ingredients:
Malted Barley: True to style, this beer is brewed with just pale malted barley and a dash of malted wheat. We import the world's best pils and wheat malts to create the light yet rich malt body.
Hops: We use a single hop variety in this beer: Hallertauer Hersbrucker. Four separate additions to the brew kettle create the delicate flavor and aroma of this classic hop.

History and Trivia:
Debuted August 2000.

We developed this beer because we wanted a slightly delicate beer in our portfolio, and one with a crisper, hoppier character than the Texas Wheat. We settled on Kölsch for the style.

When it came to naming the beer, we performed our typical expensive, highly sophisticated consumer research program. We made a sheet of paper with five potential beer names on it: Select, Blonde, Kölsch, Golden and Fancy Lawnmower Beer. We then went around to any parties or bars we were at and handed out these sheets to have people rate their perception of the quality of the beer with each name on a scale of 1 to 5. If we just averaged the totals, Golden would have won. People rated Fancy Lawnmower Beer either a 1 or a 5, but all anyone wanted to talk about, no matter what they rated it, when they handed their questionnaire in was Fancy Lawnmower Beer.

This beer has a distinctive floral hop aroma. This, combined with the power of suggestion leads many people to inform us that this beer tastes like grass. No it doesn't, silly. And stop smoking so much of it.

Research has also found this beer to be perfect for tailgating at Texans game. Especially on those crisp, fall days at the beginning of the football season in August. In Houston. In a paved parking lot.

Shiner Light Blonde

20170629:
I had trouble describing this beer.* It was definitely not a pale ale like the Fire Ant Funeral I had earlier. In the end, it could only describe it as it was named: a light blonde. It tasted okay. 8:06PM CT

*I haven't had so many beers lately so it is harder to describe the ones I have.
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Shiner Light Blonde*
*Shiner Spezial Leicht

Relevant Links:
Light Blonde (Shiner Website)
Shiner Spezial Leicht (RateBeer.com)
Shiner Light Blonde | Spoetzl Brewery / Shiner (BeerAdvocate.com)

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Website Information:

Light Blonde

Shiner Light Blonde is light done right. Don't ask us how we packed so much flavor into just 99 calories - we're not telling.

The perfect complement to a really well-tied rope swing.

First Brewed: 2011 | ABV: 4.2% | Bitterness: 9 IBU
Available Year-Round in Bottles, Cans & Draft
Avg. Analysis Per 12 fl. oz.: Calories 99 | Carbohydrates 3.8g | Protein .7g | Fat 0g

Awards:
Bronze - 2013 Australian International Beer Awards

Texas Ale Project Fire Ant Funeral

20170629:
This beer was not bad. It was a little bitter. It tasted like a pale ale.

In a hurry to leave, I chugged it. It was easy to drink. 3:05PM CT

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Texas Ale Project Fire Ant Funeral

Relevant Links:
Year Round Beers (Texas Ale Project Website)
Texas Ale Project Fire Ant Funeral (RateBeer.com)
Fire Ant Funeral | Texas Ale Project (BeerAdvocate.com)

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Website Information:

FIRE ANT FUNERAL
AN ANTIDOTE TO THE BIG STING. A traditional amber ale complexly built from a careful selection of 7 different malts. American grown hops harmoniously round out the wonderfully rich malts. Balanced without the bite.
ABV %: 6.0
IBU: 32

Rogue Mocha Porter

20170623:
I had trouble detecting the smell of this beer. I supposed its alcoholic fumes overwhelmed the scent of it. It had a pitch black color, and the head dissipated quickly.

To the taste, the beer had a thin, watery texture accompanied by some carbonation, which had a bite to it on the sip but would immediately fade away. It also had a malty aftertaste.

Overall, I was hoping for a sweeter, more chocolate tasting beer.

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Rogue Mocha Porter

Relevant Links:
Mocha Porter (Rogue Website)
Rogue Mocha Porter (RateBeer.com)
Mocha Porter | Rogue Ales (BeerAdvocate.com)

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Website Information:

MOCHA PORTER

DESCRIPTION
STYLE: Porter
FOOD PAIRING: Beef, Dessert
DESCRIPTION: Ruddy brown in color, a bittersweet balance of malt and hops with a light cream finish.
12 INGREDIENTS: 2-Row, Munich, C120, Chocolate, Black, Kiln Coffee & Rogue Farms Dare™ & Risk™ Malts; Rogue Farms Rebel™ & Liberty™ Hops; Free Range Coastal Water and Pacman yeast.

22oz Bottle, 12oz Bottle, 6-pack & Draft / 13° Plato / 5.6% ABV / 54 IBU / 73 AA / 77° L

AWARDS & HISTORY
AWARDS:
2016 World Beer Championships, Bronze
2014 World Beverage Competition, Platinum
2013 United States Beer Tasting Championship Winter
Competition, Best of the Northwest Pacific
2011 & 2010 World Beer Awards, World’s Best Porter
2007 U.S. Beer Tasting Championships, Grand Champion
2005 International Beer Competition, Supreme Champion
See All Awards

HISTORY:
Dedicated to the chocolate lover in each of us. Mocha Porter was once known as New Porter, in honor of the town of Newport, Oregon and home of Rogue Ales.

Lagunitas Doppel Weizen

20170620:
The beer had a hoppy and flowery smell. It appeared to have a cloudy, orange color.

Lagunitas Doppel Weizen

It had a carbonated, hoppy taste and a strong grassy aftertaste; wow.

Judging from it's name "Doppel Weizen," maybe it actually had a strong wheat taste. Regardless, the aftertaste was so bitter.

When I got the beer I thought it would be a delightfully light beer; perhaps I accidentally attributed the the beer to tasting like a hefeweizen when I saw "Weizen" on the label. It's also possible that I thought the beer would have a light taste from it's brightly-colored label with white background. 8:08PM PT

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Lagunitas (Our Bavarian-Styled Ale) Doppel Weizen

Relevant Links:
Doppel Weizen (Lagunitas Website)
Lagunitas Doppel Weizen (RateBeer.com)*
Lagunitas Our Own Bavarian-Style DoppelWeizen (RateBeer.com)
Bavarian-Styled Doppel Weizen | Lagunitas Brewing Company (BeerAdvocate.com)

*This one has the same label as the one I bought and the same commercial description and ABV as currently found on their website.

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Website Information:

Doppel Weizen

This special brew was designed with the help of our Freistaat Bayern brothers who also built the brewhouse upon which we brewed it. It's a new twist on an old tradition!

ABV: 8.7 | O.G.: 1.084 | IBU: 34.20
Availability: March-April | Introduced: 2014 | Sold As: 22 oz, On Tap

In far-away 2006, in a beer hall in Philly, at the end of a long road, we share our first beer with a Friestaat Bayern Brewer enharmonically named; Wolfgang. At stake, over a Pils, was whether or not Lagunitas would purchase from him a new 80bbl brewhouse. It was a lot of money. Playing Sileus to my Brewery’s chariot, together- with the benefit of the lager- we forded the emotional-economic crevasse and commissioned the brewhouse. Unforseeable [sic] at the time would be the need for even more brewing capacity today. So, for the umpteenth time in our short history, we lurch down that increasingly familiar road towards new brewhouses, fermentation tanks, and the like. The actual installation bears a strong resemblance to a heart transplant, on an awake patient, performed on the backside of a galloping horse, or at very least in tow behind Dionysus’ trustworthy Silenus. Some is good, more is better. The good news is; It’s still us! Call us. 707.769.4495

2 Gingers Irish Whiskey

20170612:
On the rocks. It had a light color. The ice helped. Compared to The Glenrothes Sherry Cask Reserve, it was definitely less sweet. Other than that, I had no idea on how to describe the whiskey.

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2 Gingers Irish Whiskey

Relevant Links:
2 Gingers Irish Whiskey Website

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2 Gingers
Irish Whiskey
Blended | 40%ALC/VOL | (80 Proof)

Smooth, malty, and slightly sweet to start, with a tingle of honey and citrus. The woody essence of this four-year-aged blend suggests caramel and vanilla to the finish.

The Glenrothes Sherry Cask Reserve

20170612:
I loved the smell of this whisky. I asked the server for something sweet and this is what he recommended. I had it neat. The glass was still warm (from drying) and that in turn warmed the whisky; it was nice.

The first sip tasted lovely, but the next sip was stronger than the first. I thought this might have been due to the glass/drink returning to room temperature.

Overall, I enjoyed the taste of this whisky. 7:17PM PT

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The Glenrothes Sherry Cask Reserve

Relevant Links:
Sherry Cask Reserve (The Glenrothes Website)

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Website Information:

Sherry Cask Reserve
There are many factors we consider in determining an expression worthy of bottling and sharing with you. Of course, we've always been proud of the fact that we have our sherry casks made to specification in Jerez, southern Spain even though it costs around five times as much as American ex-bourbon equivalents. Now, we can offer you the chance to sample, without distraction, the unique dried fruit and resinous character that underpins the sherry top notes for which these casks are famed.

Tasting Notes
Appearance: Burnished gold
Bouquet: Orange peel, fruit cake, vanilla, ginger bread, black cherries and pear drops
Palate: Spicy, ginger, oaky notes, crème brulee
Finish: Lingering spiciness with orange peel notes

With a delicious creamy texture that explodes on the palate, this burnished gold single malt delivers soft, spicy and fruity flavours - ginger, orange peel and sherry oak in perfect harmony. Sheer indulgence.

Henry McKenna 10 Year Old

20170612:
On the rocks. Strong, but drinkable. Strong in mouth, but not as strong on the throat. 7:01PM PT

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Henry McKenna Single Barrel 10 Year Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey