Beer For Dealing With Your Family
Off Color Brewing

 

I don't drink malt liquor (only 2 and panned both.) But Off Color is my favorite brewer. And this is a good joke on siblings.
In fact, it is such a good joke that I bought two four packs and gave them away as Christmas gifts to siblings, nephews and friends known to have sibling issues.

While this Beer Looks exquisite in my Off Color tulip and radiates the setting sun just after The Epiphany, Smells are more fire than sweet malt. And while I'd have to say that Tastes are balanced given all the sugar used, I'm not getting any clear flavors except ABV. And while that is the obvious point about this Beer, it makes it better to sit down with a friend and enjoy the joke than to sit by myself and enjoy the beer. Glad I gave the other cans away as gifts; that was the maximum utility of the ABV. P.S. Bring back the Tripel, Sibling Rivalry from several years ago.

Released 11/14/22; drank 11/29/22 @ the Yarchives.

Mostly opaque brown/orange appearance.

A rough pour yielded a big khaki head; strong lacing.

Root beer hard candy, mild cherry, mild booze heat & faint allspice notes in the nose.

Medium mouthfeel.

Clove & mild brown sugar flavors up front; booze heat & mild cherry notes on the finish.

Boozy quad vibes here; it's good but not great. Worth trying.

 

As a malt liquor, it’s glorious. Stylistically it’s more of an amber ale boilermaker. Roasty and sweet, husky grains, baked apples, shot of apple schnapps.

Reddish amber color, ample foam, spotty lace. Aroma is roasty and grain forward. Taste is nutty roast barley, shot through with apple esters and straight up booze. Retronasal honey and vodka shots. Big and sticky, could be a little more integrated. A velvet sledgehammer.