Conforming to the new norm in American beers of higher ABV, this beer tastes like a malty American adjunct beer with too much sweetness and an aftertaste of that yeasty, boiled squash flavor that comes from fermenting grains, but on the whole, beats most of the alternatives.
Many of us, despite wanting to woodchipper hipsters like poor Helle Crafts, enjoy what India Pale Ales have done: remove the focus on soda pop sweet beers and bring back a range of bitter flavors. This beer tries to straddle the line between traditional Murkan beers and the more intense newer palate-blasters.
Like American adjunct beers, this beer has a light and fruity flavor, but the heavy malted barley used in the brewing gives it a nice richness and wonderful amber color. You can imagine enjoying a few of these on the way to your parole hearing.
Tags: ale, beer, saint arnold
When it comes to Marzenbiers, if you’re drinking anything other than a German import, you’re doing it wrong. Sierra Nevada does them better than anyone else in the U.S. because they partner with German breweries for theirs, but there’s still no reason not to just get a superior example from a German brewery.
If we are lacking the consumer base, then we can import the Germans themselves. Let them build those fancy diesel highways and start the glass collection and reuse. There are certainly some breweries doing it right. Bayern Brewing has a distribution for hundreds of miles.