Weekend Rewind

The new craft beer store I checked out this week has already impressed me with the first recommendation that I got. Saturday night I started things off with what was described as "the Peach Beer to end all Peach Beers". Pretty lofty claim, right?

This one is a foreign beer [from Belgium] so I don't really have good intel on what the brewer has going on, or additional insight into the brew, but I can tell you that it is a big of a peach beer as you can get. It's called Scaldis Peche Mel. Honestly it tasted  like the beer equivalent of eating a peach. Very sweet, almost 'nectary' tasting. I think that you have to be a fan of peaches in order to really like this beer. Lucky for me, I love 'em. I was kind of worried that this brew would be way too overbearing with the fruit flavor but that wasn't the case. They balanced a belgian style beer with the maximum amount of peachyness. I can wholeheartedly agree that it should be endgame when it comes to peach beer.

Today I returned to the local roots and went with a Terrapin Hop Karma Brown IPA. I'm actually doing a little 'research' for a brew that is going to be concocted very soon, and I am looking to try an assortment of Brown Ales. This guy, however, is technically a Black IPA [yes, I know the name says brown, not black] and comes with a heavy dosage of hops flavors that you wouldn't normally find in a brown. As with most hybrid style beers the best way to describe it is by saying it combines the two components. In this case it's a West Coast IPA with Brown Ale. They did a really good job in creating an IPA that has a different flavor profile than you're used to. I definitely give it a thumbs up. Also because this one is available year round.

On a side note, I really want to know how this blog is getting so many hits in Russia. Very random. But Cheers none the less!

Scaldis
Peche Mel
Fruit Beer
8.5% abv

Terrapin
Hop Karma Brown IPA
Black IPA


6.9% abv