Girls girls girls!! Oops, I mean beer beer beer!!
Saturday again and it's not just any old Saturday, it's the start of Oktoberfest!! Of course you know what that is dontcha? It's the big German beery celebration where everybody drinks giant steins of beer because of something or other. Sounds magic.
That makes me very excited. So excited I thought I must get a beer which can truly give me that Oktoberfest vibe, what did I get?
How about...
Dog madness!! A 5.8% Oktoberfest style beer From The Flying Dog Brewery in Maryland in the US of A. A fabulously named beast it must be said. However, given that they also brew the inimitable doggy style beer which I wasn't fond of before makes me a little feart!
Look at that! It puts like a wooden table leg! Rich and brown'y red. It looks good and...
It's flipping magic!! Is this what they are drinking in Munich? Let me at it, I wants an in. It's very malty with a toffee-esque sweetness. It's not a silly sweetness but a big boy beer sweetness. Jings, I could quaff this to mcbuggery! 8/10
Next up is the fabulous looking
Oops, I have gone and done it again. Comparing a porter to a regular beer. Dash it, will I never learn? This is a 6.5% from the Fierce brewery in Scotland. One of my favourite breweries actually.
Pours like squid ink, claims to be a coffee and vanilla porter. Well I can smell it already. It's very vanilla-ish.
I give it a good slurp. Man it's smokey and burnt coffee and all sorts of funky shit in a good way but... but... Damned if that vanilla isn't a bit overpowering. It's nice at offsetting the bitterness but it does it too much. It's almost like an ice cream taste which doesn't sit too well. About half way down I am still on the fence. I am on the fence so hard that the spikes are getting right intimate.
Dang, can't get away from it. It's not that great. Because of the smoky coffee I will give it a 6/10
Fortunately I have more Dogtoberfest!! I am going to get stuck into them and see how drunk I can get whilst pretending to be sober.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Cheers!