Ten Fidy draft

May 19, 2019

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I had time to get one more in during #GBCBW Green Bay Craft Beer Week.

Gonna go with the Ten-Fidy by Oscar Blues. American Imperial Stout 10.5%

The small snifter tap pour came about as lifeless looking as you could make it. No head. No signs of carbonation or cascading pre show. Just a black blob with a swirl of an oil slick.

However. Just as it’s sitting there I’m starting to pick up lite chocolate and bits of caramel malt. The pour feels a bit cold so I’m gonna let warm it a bit.

I don’t really get much in the roast Dept. Light coffee, dark chocolate with just background burnt roast. A heavy sweetness is more prominent than any roast. For a self proclaimed American Imperial Stout I was sure expecting alot more of everything. But everything we do get is appealing.

The mouthfeel is pretty much what you see is what get. Lifeless. Heavy. Almost no carbonation. It sits pretty heavy on the tongue. And that makes it very hard to look past the sweetness. Like the aroma, the lite slightly burnt roast, chocolate, and caramel notes are smothered by the sweetness. It’s not heavy heavy sweet,, but it is what you are forced to focus on.

Slight dank hop taste is subtle, but there. But the bittering charge is noticeably low again letting the sweetness dominate.

I would probably put this more as a dessert stout. As it’s good as a single, a bit sweet to have more that one at a time. Being labled as an imp stout, descriptors like, notes, light, subtle shouldn’t be here as much as they are.

Disappointed in this one. Heard decent things about it. I am going to look for the can version. But until then 3/5.

Good Dog Porter

May 17, 2019

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We have another local beer today. Good Dog Porter from Zambaldi Beer.

A tall shaker pour from the nitro taps of Need Kelly’s Pub. A short cascade show as the pint arrives, leaving behind the tell tale nitro head. A bit thin but stays right to the end.

As per that nitro head, the aromas are concealed. But a cautious swirl does reveal just the slightest hint of roasted malt. Somewhere between a roasted barley and a black Pat. Grainy is about all I can really say about the nose of this. No hop, nor yeast comes through.

From the lack of nearly anything in aroma, I was hoping the taste would make up it. But sadly, I cannot say that it does. Very grainy, like victory malt overdose, and very light roasty with a very black patenty feel.

Dry on the tongue, yet does have a decent body from the nitro. Bittering is not noticeable at all, which is ok here because the black malts help out a little.

Just for a second, I got a flash of hops but so faint, as with nearly everything about this beer. I don’t wanna say watered down, but more like a shadow of a beer.

It’s not bad by any means, but just too subtle in everyway. Low aroma, low taste, low carbonation, low hop. It just needs something… anything. somewhere.

I personally think this beer suffers being on nitro. Everything about it is masked and hidden. Maybe a Co2 push through a regular tap would let it open up?

But as it sits right now in from of me, I can only manage a 2.5/5 and that might be a bit high.

Deth by Currants

May 16, 2019

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Well it’s Craft beer week 2019. Let’s grab a couple.

I hit Ned Kelly’s Pub for a Revolution Deth by Currant stout.

Poured from tap 54 out the 100. And it’s looks delicious.

Thick tan head with a black body. Nice Ruby highlights.

First thing I get from the aroma is a mix of berries and alcohol.. but not hot like, just a soft alc note to let you know it’s there. Then comes an even softer chocolate. Reminds me of those craft raspberry chocolate bars.

By now the head has gone away except along the edges. But that would be expected with the higher alc.

First sip is exactly what the aromas were. Soft chocolate and berry like but almost no roast.

A silky or oily, but much lighter body than I expected though. But that is good because it plays with the very low bitterness and the low carbonation. And it definitely does not feel like the 13.5% its claiming. This is one dangerously easy drinking beer for sure.

As its now starting to warm a bit I’m getting some raisin/grape, as well as .. vanilla(?) notes in both the taste and aroma.

Is a fairly complex beer that takes a while to give everything up. But that being said.. it’s just doesn’t grab my attention the way I was expecting. If you put Death in the title, there better be something, anything, that jumps out at you.

Then we come to the price point. Again. It’s a nice beer, but to be almost 3x the price of similar tasting beers? Even the 13% doesn’t even it out.

I would surely drink more of these, but you would need to come down a tax bracket on them.

Good beer here. 4/5 untappd

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