Moon Dog Brewing Bad Boy Bubbly

SO I was at my local Craft Beer bar, and asked for a taste of ‘The Goddamn Weirdest Beer You have today” for my first beer of the evening. After tasting the Bad Boy Bubbly, I then asked for a Large glass of the second weirdest beer they had on tap.

Moon Dog Brewing Bab Boy Bubbly Barley champagne.

You would think by that statement that I don’t like this beer. The opposite is true, I love it  because of how one hundred percent balls to the wall bat-shit f***ing certifiably insane this brew is.

Coming in at a low 13.1% ( What’s sarcasm?) almost no head, clear and bubbly as hell this strong deliciously sharp beer is fizzy as all get out. Mainly because of the champagne yeast involved. It’s like the demented love child of a lager, a bottle of Mumm and sickly sweet lemonade, that been left abandoned in a swamp to fester in its own excrement and juices.

But in a good way!

Yes, it’s weird, and most people just won’t get it. It’s not a Barley wine, its something new. Something different. And we should always encourage experimentation. Especially when its something as insane as this.

8.5/10

Until next time, and remember. Always drink from a glass.

Feral/ CUB/ 2 Brothers Land of Plenty Lager.

Collaboration beers, are normally pretty good. I mean if several breweries are putting their name on it. You generally expect them to polish off a decent brew.

Usually.

Feral/ CUB/ 2 Brothers Land of Plenty Lager.

This beer will now and forever be refereed to as “The Yeastie Bomb Surprise.” I mean, I know it’s an unfiltered Keller-bier ( I read the label. It says so.) But man that’s a rough smell. Its a wonderful bouquet that is a mix of that one alleyway behind the club where everyone pee’s and mouldy lemons.

So, you know. Well pleasant.

Grainy cloudy and rough with a taste to match.

Not much to say really.

Apart from, give this one a wide berth.
( I drink the terrible beer, so you don’t have too)

2/10

EDIT*  I let it warm up a bit, and that really opened up the flavours. I’d urge you not to have it ice cold. Let it warm up to just below room temperature.

Nice biscuit and apple tang.

Edited Rating.

4.5/10

Until next time and remember, always drink from a glass.

Bootleg Brewery Coconut Heffe

I was really contemplating writing a review that read simply:

No.

But I am not Triple J’s the Doctor and should actually back up my rants and opinions with actual facts.

Even if it means reliving this awful moment.

Bootleg Brewery Coconut Heffe

It had a lovely straw colour and a really fluffy white head, It was the last beer of the evening of what was a pretty great night.

Bootleg had let me down before in the evening, but maybe, just maybe the Coconut Heffe could redeem its name.

Nose was a pretty standard wheat beer nice straw like aroma, and the teeniest bit of coconut.

I could have got behind that, it was refreshing and light and something to end the night on.

And then I allowed it to roam past my fish lips, and all hell broke loose.

So much coconut.

Whilst I was being hit by a full broadside of coconut some real heavy banana and spice attacked as well.

Maybe Coconut Heffe, its not you.

Maybe its me, I’ve never been the hugest fan of coconut anyway.

Or maybe drinking you felt like I was being force fed a slurry of coconut lip balm.

No.

1.8/10

Until next time and remember, always drink from a glass.

Clown Shoes Brown Angel Double Brown Ale

I’d never developed a crush on a girl on a Beer Label before.

That was a first.

Clown Shoes Brown Angel Double Brown Ale.

This a deceptively sneaky beer and at 7% it is surprisingly session-able, I could, and in-fact have polished off a full 0.650 Litre bottle, and at the end I was cradling the beer mug to my chest trying to wrap it up inside my warm generous bosom.

It’s comfort food in a bottle really.
I do admit on the nose it was somewhat lacking and at first nose-gander ( It’s a real term, shut-up) I thought this would be a pretty average brown ale, with some spicy hoppy notes and lingering scent of roasted malts and coffee.

I was wrong.
It is an aggressively malty beer but balanced out nicely with four different hops, and the roasted malts and coffee comes back, a tidal wave of dark sticky goodness.

But it’s not over, like a Christopher Nolan movie you think you’ve arrived at the climax but no there is more.

Big fat lashings of chocolate notes arrive being ridden like a bitch by some delightful nutty caramel and peanut flavours.

Actually perfect for cold wet wintry weather, a lovely dessert beer it goes amaze-balls with a chocolate brownie or anything with nuts and chocolate in it really.

A standout beer, and I really need to try more from this brewery.

7.9/10

Until next time and remember, always drink from a glass.

Feral PHunking Fresh

I do not like this Beer, infact I hate it, and the internet has told me I am wrong for this.

In fact a few people who’s opinion I respect have told me I am actually a complete idiot and should shut the hell up.

Feral Brewing PHunking Fresh
Coming in at 6.5% this American style Wild Ale appears pretty cloudy and unfiltered and looks like its been poured from a shoe that someone managed to run three marathons in, before vomiting into it.

And smells like it too.

At first sip it’s actually.. not that bad. Rough with some cider and pineapple notes trying to force their way up through the overpowering taste OF WILD YEAST.

About halfway through the Pint, I decided it was average as that yeastiness kept growing on me and felt like I was drinking liquid blue cheese through a sock belonging to Scott of the Antarctic( Post frostbite)

Three Quarters of the way through I actually felt ill, I was contemplating not actually finishing it. ( A cardinal Sin)

2.3/10

But remember, I am apparently wrong, and what do I know anyway?

Until next time, and remember. Always drink from a glass.

Feral WaterMelon Warhead

I am biased, this is one of my favourites. mainly because of its complete and utter determination to polarise any who drink it. You either Love it, and wish there was a way you could possibly pro-create with it, or Hate it and are currently sitting in an Emergency Department after trying to remove the memory of the taste with a backyard lobotomy.

The Feral WaterMelon Warhead

Bam. Yeah you really weren’t expecting that. A huge face puckering sour note that lies in ambush after a nice sweet fruity nose.

You’ve been Warhead-ed.

A fantastic light, and I mean light coming at a tiny 2.9% ( Which is great when you just want to session) this is a perfect sour summer number. Be warned however you may strongly dislike it, The Warhead is a double edged sword, and it cuts both ways.

8.1/10

Until next time, and remember. Always drink from a glass.