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Tonight a nice brew.

Central City Brewing
Red Racer Pale Ale
ABV: 5%

Pours a nice dark golden yellow color, nice carbonation, nice creamy one-finger off-white head, with some nice sticky lacing left behind. The nose is malty, with some hop note, very slight citrus. The taste is malty, with some hop notes, and some citrus. Medium body. Drinkable, not a bad APA at all, worth a shot. :beer:

Cheers!
 
Had a New Holland Brewery Dragon's Milk Oak Barrel. It's a strong ale, 9% ABV, but tastes incredibly smooth. Sweet and stout-like, although it's not really a stout or porter. Very drinkable, 22oz went down quickly and I wanted more!
 
Lagunitas pilsner (Czech style)
5.3% abv

Cooling in the fridge... I can't wait! I think I'll have some wheat bread and pepperjack cheese to go with it.
 
Well not usual for me to post at 10:15, but I had to share tonight's brew!

I had an Arcadia Ales Shipwreck Porter (2007 vintage) that I'd been saving for a couple of years.

Wow! This is the best $7 I've ever spent! It's big, it's bold (12%), but it's smooth and not a hint of alcohol. It's a Baltic style porter, aged in 10-year whiskey barrels. It tastes like a porter should, smooth and malty, but you get the woody whiskey taste on top of that. No coffee overtones like you would normally associate with an "extreme" porter. Very strong smell, very complex smell, the taste is milder than the smell, but still excellent. One of the most carbonated porters I've ever seen, easily 1 to 1 beer to head with a nice gentle pour, but the beer itself wasn't bubbly and effervescent, rather smooth like you would expect from a porter.
 
Tonight for me was 2 simple, common brews.

Jack's Pumpkin Spice - Tried this last year and the year before. Not my favorite pumpkin beer by far, but it's available and relatively inexpensive. An Anheuser Busch product, so it's hard to observe from a neutral perspective.

I didn't care for it as much this year. The flavor wasn't as 'pumpkiny' and was awfully watery this time around. Drinkable but something I'll probably finish off the 6-er tomorrow while I'm cooking to get rid of. I love, and I mean LOVE Pumpkin beer. This made me sad. Now I'll have to go find me some Saranac Pumpkin beer (tastes like liquid pumpkin pie) to ease the pain.. Or drink another of the next beer.

The other beer.

Great Lakes Oktoberfest - I love this time of year, and it's because of beers like this. Had a nice full flavor that represented what Octoberfest beer is all about. It was a fairly straight-forward Marzen style didn't overpower any of the senses. It was even and delicate. Went down easy and made you want more. What surprised me most was that while it sits at 6.5%abv it really calmed me down quite nicely after a stressful day at work.
 
Tonight:

Cisco Brewers Inc
Dark Woods
American Wild Ale
ABV: 8%

750ml Bottle
Caged/Corked

Poured into a chalice a nice dark brown color, nice carbonation, nice little fizzy light tan head, with some sticky lacing left behind. The nose is malty, yeasty, with some cherries, oak, vanilla. The taste is malty, yeasty, tangy, nice little oak note, with some sweetness thrown in. Medium body. Drinkable, a tasty brew. It's been awhile since I've had a AWA. :beer:

Cheers!
 
I had a productive beer night last night :) Went down the the local better-beer bar with some friends and had three good brews.

First I had a bottle of Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout. Pretty straightforward lower ABV oatmeal stout. Very well done, not very expensive, and extremely drinkable.

Second was a bottle of Harpoon Leviathan Triticus. This is a wheatwine, which, maybe I'm just uninformed, tasted precisely like a barleywine to me :) It was VERY good, and at 11.5% surprisingly still very smooth and drinkable. Not a bad price on this one either, certainly the least expensive barleywine (wheatwine) I've ever had.

Last I finished with my usual from there, Breckenridge Vanilla Porter ON TAP. Now I can find this in bottles semi-regularly, and it's a VERY good beer; however, on tap this is a different brew all together, highly recommended if you can find it. A little sweet and kind of an after-dinner sort of beer, or a finisher as in this case.
 
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