The once and future king!! That's right, this Saturday is Elvis beers Saturday!
Elvis, what has he got do with anything you might ask?
Ok, the link is rather tenuous. The nearest I have come to Elvis is covering The Wonder Of You in my old band. And of course only yesterday the Bear-Man thought that the second beer above was called Thousands of Elvis.
Which would have been amazing. But no, it's Thousands of Evils
Oh my.
But I get ahead of myself. This week, the beers duking it out for the win have both been barrel aged. Mmm! I am fond of a barrel aged beer so this gets me almost as excited as when I talk to the girl with the fake lips in the coffee shop beside my office.
Ah, I do hope that she isn't my gateway to the sexy world of duck-porn.
But I digress...
To the beers!
So Beerbliotek, we meet again. I have had what can only be described as a chequered history with this brewery.
Oh alright then, I will be honest. I think most of their beers are shit. I have tried a fair few now from them and almost all of them have been mince.
Can they come back from purgatory and slap me sideways with this, a whisky Barrel aged Stout? I mean, I'm Scottish. We invented whisky. (Sshh Irish folk!)
It's almost like they are trying to bribe me. Which, if that was the case could be easily done with ten bucks and a hand shandy from a lovely. No need to go to all the trouble of making a beer for me.
Let's get it poured.
Hmm, it pours a delightful looking reddish brown, a bit like burnt beef. Except more liquidy. Tiny wee head hissing away as soon as it's poured.
It looks like a typical heavy. Perhaps, a little darker. I am quite fond of that style. Let's get it on
Well, that was, hmm. I don't know how to describe it. It wasn't bad as such it was just kind of lame.
It promised the world, whisky and strong delight and yet it delivered nothing except a slight soapy taste. Which was shit. I could smell the whisky but I couldn't taste it, what's the point in that, I want to be walloped with it!
Utter bawhumming disappointment. 4/10 booms.
Next!!
Well well. The last one was a whisky Barrel aged beer. This one, rather more mysteriously is a blend of the breweries barrel aged beers.
What the fuck do they mean, did they get all the leftover slops that no one drank and bunged them together? Yeek...
Let's see.
It's dark. Plenty dark. Reminds me of a hunter in the shadows. A subterranean behemoth lurking where the sun don't shine. A bit like my penis on a Wednesday. I am catching a coffee and bourbon reek off it already and that is making me a happy chap. To the tasting!
Magnificent. It seems to tick every box, it has dark and bitter cofffee mellowed by sweet fudgey toffee tones and the bourbon surrounds it all like a sassy lycra vest. I am very happy indeed! 9/10 booms!!
Will that was an awesome end to a tasting. I'm off to drink more of that stuff!!
Cheers!