Day 352 - The Gift

Yea, back on the beerwagon. Boo, the beer is no good.... You know, it takes guts to call your beer "The Gift" when it is the equivalent then of getting a lump of coal.

The volor is a decent orange, but might as well stop there. The taste is more like stale keg beer, that is warm....

Specs:

Full Name: The Gift

Brewed By: Starr Hill Brewery

From: Crozet VA

ABV: 6.5%

Funny thing, my friend Tom Wulf had sent me a text earlier this evening from his Kroger out in Cinci where he spotted a Bud Light/Tomato juice combo, and we were joking about how anything could be worse than that. Sadly, I found it...

Oh well, down to the last few weeks, and need to find a way to make it count. I still have the big bottle that I didn't want to pull out yet, but should have I suppose. One more trip to replenish the supply tomorrow.

Cheers!

Day 283 - Festie

There is not much good about Tuesdays in general, and while I have a palie in the pipeline, I took a risk and went with a seasonal instead. While the label claims "the gift of great beer", I think more appropriate would be the Forrest Gump saying "life is like a box of chocolates", and I just got the jelly-filled one...

So, a nice label, and actually decent orange glow in the glass, but then you drink it and the warm fuzzies quickly turn to cold shakes. No hops to speak of, and a tinny sweetness that makes me glad the taste fades quickly.

Specs:

Full Name: Festie

Brewed By: Starr Hill Brewery

From: Crozet VA

ABV: not on label, not worth spending the time to find it...

Ah well, if it weren't for the duds, the experience of the tasty ones wouldn't be as great. I'd almost put this one with the ill-fated vanilla beer, or at least on par with any of the fruited beers. If it were summer, I'd put this in the garden to kill slugs....

Cheers (but not with this one...)