Anyone tried this beer out? I don't think it's widely distributed, I only had one since I was in portland for a few weeks and saw it on the menu at $12 a bottle. You figure that at $12 a bottle, it's just something you have to try...
Unfortunately I only managed to drink maybe $5 worth... This is another beer on the list of beers that are highly regarded that I just can't stand... The big problem I had with this one is that it tasted, to my untrained mouth, exactly like bourbon. I mean, if you'd put this in a glass next to a glass of bourbon, the only way I'd be able to tell the difference is by the amount of burn I think. I guess this makes sense, as this beer is a lightly hopped high alcohol fermented barley beverage aged in oak barrels, and bourbon is a non-hopped high alcohol distilled barley beverage aged in oak barrels. But when I get a beer that is supposed to have bourbon and oak characteristics, I still expect it to pretty much taste like a beer...
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I got sick a few times in college doing shots of whiskey and now the stuff makes me feel sick... But if you like bourbon, this is probably an awesome beer to try out. You can then tell me how wrong I am
On the plus side, I was amazed that everywhere in portland seems to sell micro brews. We got a pitcher of mirror pond at a bowling alley, whereas back here in ohio the best you can do at a bowling alley is amber bock and most bars don't get any better than sam adams... We also visited the rogue public house which was fantastic. The kobe beef blue cheese meatballs were great and I found a new favorite rogue beer with the Morimoto Imperial Pilsner. It was hard not to just buy a bomber of everything on the way out. Luckily they sell 4 beer samplers for $5 so you can try all the beers without spending a ton of money.
We found out later rogue has an ale house in Astoria, on the coast. If you're out that way, I recommend hitting it up. You can scope out the goonies house and then have some beer and lunch before heading down to cannon beach where the old restaurant scenes were filmed
Unfortunately I only managed to drink maybe $5 worth... This is another beer on the list of beers that are highly regarded that I just can't stand... The big problem I had with this one is that it tasted, to my untrained mouth, exactly like bourbon. I mean, if you'd put this in a glass next to a glass of bourbon, the only way I'd be able to tell the difference is by the amount of burn I think. I guess this makes sense, as this beer is a lightly hopped high alcohol fermented barley beverage aged in oak barrels, and bourbon is a non-hopped high alcohol distilled barley beverage aged in oak barrels. But when I get a beer that is supposed to have bourbon and oak characteristics, I still expect it to pretty much taste like a beer...
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I got sick a few times in college doing shots of whiskey and now the stuff makes me feel sick... But if you like bourbon, this is probably an awesome beer to try out. You can then tell me how wrong I am
On the plus side, I was amazed that everywhere in portland seems to sell micro brews. We got a pitcher of mirror pond at a bowling alley, whereas back here in ohio the best you can do at a bowling alley is amber bock and most bars don't get any better than sam adams... We also visited the rogue public house which was fantastic. The kobe beef blue cheese meatballs were great and I found a new favorite rogue beer with the Morimoto Imperial Pilsner. It was hard not to just buy a bomber of everything on the way out. Luckily they sell 4 beer samplers for $5 so you can try all the beers without spending a ton of money.
We found out later rogue has an ale house in Astoria, on the coast. If you're out that way, I recommend hitting it up. You can scope out the goonies house and then have some beer and lunch before heading down to cannon beach where the old restaurant scenes were filmed
