Wachusett Larry is an American Imperial IPA. Imperial, or double IPA’s are IPA’s on steroids. They’re usually 50% stronger and more bitter than normal IPA’s.

Larry pours a beautiful amber orange with a nice fluffy white head. The first thing you notice is the aroma. Strong hops, grapefruit, pine and floral smells. The taste is spicy, citrusy, piney and hoppy. However, this beer is not just about the hops, it’s remarkably well balanced.

Double IPA’s are a west coast beer style, but Larry from a brewery in Westminster MA can more than hold it’s own against anything from out west.

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Jack Do’r is the first beer from Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project.  It’s an American version of the Belgian Saison style.  Saisons were simple table beers brewed in the winter months for farm workers to enjoy during the summer.

 

Jack pours a beautiful hazy orange color with a fluffy white head.  Smell is fruity with grape, lemon, apple, grass, and yeast apparent.

 

The flavor is close to the aroma, but with a dryness from the three strains of  yeast used during the brewing. 

 

This is a very complex, very special beer quite possibly like nothing you’ve ever tried before.

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Young’s Double Chocolate Stout is made in England by Wells & Young’s Ltd.  This is a sweet, or milk stout style.  That means unfermentable sugars are added to the brew kettle to add sweetness and counter the bitterness of the roasted malts.

 

This beer pours a deep beautiful black color with a nice brown head.  Aroma is chocolate with hints of coffee.  Mouthfeel is rich and creamy.  The flavor is what you would expect from the name and more.  Plenty of chocolate flavor, but hints of coffee and roasted malt.

 

At only 5.2 % alcohol by volume you can easily have a few of these.  This is a good introductory beer for someone wanting to try something a little different.  Don’t be afraid of the dark!  

 

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