Beer Reviews
Top Ten Beers
- Blue Point Toasted Lager – 46.5/50
- Blue Point Oktoberfest – 46/50
- Abita Turbodog – 45/50
- Samuel Adams Imperial White
- Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout – 44/50
- Harpoon Ale – 43/50
- Saranac Caramel Porter
- Blue Point Blueberry Ale
- Tommyknocker Cocoa Porter
- The Big Show’s B.W.arleywine (homebrew)
- Brown’s Brewing Whiskey Porter
- Sixpoint Brownstone
Note: The above are active beers you can still easily obtain. As I write reviews, this will change and I’ll rank them according to score.
Note #2: The unreviewed ones aren’t official entrants as of yet, but stay here as a reminder of what I still have left to review.
Retired Favorites
- Samuel Adams Patriot Collection – Thomas Jefferson Ginger & Honey Ale
- Samuel Adams Patriot Collection – George Washington Porter
Presentation (5): What does this company do to make me want to drink their beer? Is the cover funky? Do they have funny descriptions. Are they super snooty?
Originality (5): Is it a standard brown ale? Does it use curry powder to make it a funky kind of brown ale? Does everyone else make it? All these contribute to originality
Body (10): Is it so overcarbonated that it burns on the way down? How does it feel on the pallet. This is snobbery, after all.
Taste (10): How does it taste relative to other things in its category. IE: Not does a stout taste better than all beers, but does a stout taste better then other stouts.
Efficiency (10): A very secretive formula combining alcohol by-volume with relative speed of drinking it and how many you can drink before feeling ill. About as complicated as the Google Page Rank algorithm.
Versatility (10): How many things is this beer good for? Is it good for drinking games? Is it good for poker? Is it good for just sitting around and drinking? Example: Coors Light would score a 10 versatility rating. Sam Adams Triple Bock would not.
Final Grade: out of 50.
1 – 5: IPAs
6 – 19: Bad beer.
20 – 24: OK Beer… not bad enough to be bad, not good enough to be good.
25 – 35: Good Beer… center of the bell curve
36 – 40: Really good beer.
40 – 45: Great beer.
46 – 49: Amazing Beer.
50: Samuel Adams Traditional Ginger Honey Ale From the Patriot Collection