Country of Origin: United States
Recommended by: trinity63
Availability: Couldn't get it in Connecticut, but found it in New York.
Price comparison: About $3 more per six-pack than national-branded beer.
Alcohol percentage by volume: 5%
Cute bottle/label? Standard twelve-ounce brown glass; label depicts a murky mysterious moonlit bayou. Spooky-cool.
Appearance: Dark brownish-black that glowed garnet when held to the light. Tan head that left thick smears of lace on the glass.
Scent: Black grapes; malt; coffee.
Flavor: Smooth, sweet malt with not much hops, also a light smokiness around the edges.
Impressions: This beer is eminently drinkable. Slighly overcarbonated and almost deliberately sweet and salty at once, a perfect balance for Cajun or (as I had it tonight) Tex-Mex food.
Will I buy this beer again? Not as elusive as the Sam Adams Triple Bock was, but still pretty hard to get to, and kind of pricy. However, I like it an awful lot. I figure I'll buy it whenever I'm in New York anyway, just out of convenience, but I'm really not in New York a lot.
Rating:
3½ out of 5 cute beer glasses
Reviewed: December 30, 2003
