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Best beer ever

mattberan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:55:10 +0000

This beer is amazing. Like a ton of bricks balanced on a tightrope. Love it.

Summit Maibock

mattberan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:49:49 +0000

This is what I’ve come to expect from any beer ending in …bock. I want to say this tastes smokey. Perfect balance for malt. A little sweet on the aftertaste, but the overall taste is simply amazing. Once of the best Minnesota beers in existence.

Reminds me of…

mattberan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:34:16 +0000

If there is one thing I can tell you: serve this beer cold. Ice – cold. Then, as you get further down the bottle you’ll get slightly buzzed you won’t mind the taste so much.

I’m biased. One night in college I drank a sixer of this and a 5th of peppermints schnapps and ruined a couch. Needless to say this beer brings back bad bad bad memories.

Colder the better though.

I’m giving it a three because it’s got decent flavor and no hops. I’d probably give it a two but I’m trying to make up for my bias.

Winter WHOAlock

mattberan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:40:06 +0000

This is the heaviest beer I’ve had since Surly Furious. I can’t tell if it’s just the fact that Finnegans is so light, or what. This beer is like syrup. Light on the carbonation, no head to speak of. This is gonna take me about 40 minutes to drink, slowly.

Great on flavor, hop lovers love warlock.

Another balancing act, well done

mattberan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:55:18 +0000

A very fulfilling beer, very well balanced, another one for people who hate hops and bitter. This does lack some flavor though, and comes at me as weak. The fore and mid palate are tasty but the back palate is crap, like dirty water. Could slam about 50 of these if necessary.BOO TWIST OFFS.

Standard Schell’s tribute

mattberan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:40:18 +0000

Schell rarely disapoints me (Please Rett consider adding Hauenstein to the list!) This beer is a great slammer with enough flavor to please picky beer people. I’d say this should be served in more bars and at more parties. A good amount of hops for people who don’t like hops. Very well balanced beer, with a slight lean toward a mid- to – end- pallate maltiness.

YAY POP TOP! Screw off caps suck.

Average Beer

mattberan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:05:02 +0000

I was expecting a bit more (last time I read the reviews here before tasting). This is what I’d call a very classic beer. The hops are strong, but I can’t quite place what kind they are (something I’m trying to do more and more). The carbonation is a bit low and the malt very very mild. Classic Ale flavor. P.S. Boo to twist offs again. But yay that I bought a six pack, good ale.

Decent Belgian

mattberan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:19:22 +0000

I just got done brewing a belgian trappist clone and it turned out really stanky but light. That kind of prepared me for this. I’d say definately crisp, high malt taste, mild hops and strangely strong mid and after pallet (thus the name I assume.This is a good beer, and my first ever visit to Blue Max, I’m in love with that store! P.S. BOO for twist off bottles.

A +

mattberan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:33:20 +0000

From start to finish, my favorite beer yet. This Beer is permanently on my top 10 beers. There’s a bit of spice in the carmelly malt. I will buy this again and again and again.

Alternate Beir

mattberan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:28:12 +0000

A great lager, but only one please. It’s great body and fine flavor is only killed by the curse that is it’s sweetness. This is one of the few lagers I’ve had that is full flavored and delicious. This beer inspires me to find the darkest lager I think that will be the best lager. Some the best lagers in my mind: Stella, Lion Imperial, and Coney Island Lager. Beyond the sweetness. Beyond the syrup sticky sweetness, this beer is a tribute to lagers. Is it bottled?