October 21, 2021

October Beer Review (#64)

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Beer/Brewery City, State Tasting Notes Style ABV % IBU Cal On Style Look Smell Taste Mouth Feel Total Rating Pic

Coffe Porter Brewed with Katz Coffee, Real Ale Breweing

 

Blanco, Texas

This is for Louie! This is an amazing porter finished old-brewed organic fair trade coffee courtesy of Katz Coffee in Houston, TX is added just prior to packaging. 

It has a rich portere beginning with a smooth coffee finished. This would make an excellent breakfast beer or on a cold winter night.

If Louie does not buy it all up I suggest you pick up a six pack and enjoy with a friend.

Coffee Porter 6.6% 35   4.5 4.4 4.5 4   4.36 Pic
Brewers Pride Collin Street Bakery Fruitcake Pastry Porter, Spoetzl Brewery Shiner, TX

Shiner partenered with Collin Street Bakery to brew a Porter. I should state that I am one of the few people I know that actually likes fruit cake so I was excited to try this.

Strong alcohol smell which my assistanct (of aged daughter) recognized as the smell and taste of barrel. Once she brought it to my attention I could fully taste the barrel.

Pecan is very subtle.   Slight cherry. Nice lace. Worth trying but I think one a night would be enough.   This is a desert beer.

I wanted more fruitcake flavor but I like it!

Might be good in a sniffer with cigar on a cold evening.

 

Flavored Porter 7.5% 20   4 4 4 4.1 4.1 4.04 Pic

Shiny, Back Pew Brewing

Porter, TX

While I am not a fan of Hazy New England IPA's Back Pew has done this right.

Good color, nice lace. It is low IBU due to the fact they cold-whilpooled the hops and then dry hopped the beer.

A technical note when you do not boil the hops you do not get much bittering from them. Instead you get more floral taste.

If you like Citra then this is for you.

Hazy Double New England IPA 8.1% 18   4 4 4 4 4 4 Pic
K9 Lager, Texas Beer Company Taylor, TX

Lets start with the can. It is an awesome design and to make it better the proceeds go to K9s For Warriors is the nation’s largest veteran service organization providing highly skilled Service Dogs to American veterans with severe PTSD.

Now to the beer. Good color and lace. Nice smell. But I do have a strange taste along the sides of my mouth after I swallow. I can not place the sinsation. Over all its a nice beer and worth trying. After all it supports a great cause.

American Lager 4.5%     4 4 4 3.8 4 3.96 Pic
Hop Gusher, Spindeltap Houston, TX

This IPA is made with Mosaic, Citra, and Amarilloaroma is grapefruit, berry, melon, resinous pine, and mango with a sweet and bready malt backbone that truly balances the whole thing.

The smell but pushes citrus a little more forward, offering additional layers of lemon and orange. it's bready, slightly aggressive, with tropical and citrus leanings and an earthy, resinous evergreen hop finish. slightly more fruity West Coast nod, in essence.

Overal a nice beer.

American IPA 6.5%     4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 Pic
3 up 3 Down, Texas Leaguer Missouri City, TX

I love the can and the brewery theme.

The beer pours good and has nice lace and color. The aroma smells old and the taste follows. When I inspected the can it looks like this was canned in May of 2021 which if it has been properly stored would not be a big deal for this high alcohol beer but unfortunetly it has not been cared for. In all fairness it was on clearence for .99 at HEB. For the cost it was fair and I did finish it.

There website does not even mention this beer so it may be way out of date.

I would have like to tried this beer fresh as it has the potential to have been good. I need to take a trip to visit them in the spring!

Double IPA 8.6%     3 3 3 3 3 3 Pic
Bonus Beer
Tucher Festbier, Tucher Brewery Nuremberg, Germany

This is a classic festbier. All German pilsner grain with german noble hops. This is a bit thicker than an oktoberfest but it should be. Great lace and mouth feel. Crystal clear.

This was a unique find and I highly suggest trying it if you come across its.

To many, the festbiers of Bavaria are a liquid voyage to the tents of Oktoberfest. For Tucher, nestled in its home in northern Bavaria and out of reach of the festivals that overtake Munich’s fairgrounds each fall, the focus is on Fruhlingsfest and celebrating the end of the cold winter months. As such, this festbier is brewed as a fuller-bodied helles lager with a slightly louder presence of old world hops instead of a marzen and is available to festivals year-round!

Brewed for the Bergkirchweih which is an annual Volksfest (beer festival and travelling funfair) in Erlangen, Germany. Locals nickname it Berch, which is the East Franconian pronunciation of the German word Berg, meaning mountain or hill.

Lager - Festbier / Wiesnbier  5.8%.     4.7 4.7 4.2 4.4 4.5 4.42 Pic