I just realized that the bottles I bought and I've been drinking are brewed in Rochester NY.(Genesee) I knew, yeah, knew there was something different about the taste.
It's happening to a lot of beers. Bass ale is now brewed in the states and I believe Becks is also made here or Canada where Fosters is made.
Yeah, Irwindale California by SAB Miller. That's for Fosters. Becks is an AB-inBev brew and I haven't looked at the Bass Ale bottles but I'm leaning towards AB-inBev again.
I don't know, many years ago Guinness Extra Stout was one I turned to a lot but not since Labatt took the reigns. Another AB-inBev "puppet", if you will.
So how does it taste? Has it retained any of the fruity/nutty/buttery Yorkshire characteristics? I heard about the change a ways back, and didn't think it would bode well for that beer.
Blindfolded, I would have never guessed that it was an English Pale Ale or an English Ale of any sort. Maybe they accidentally filled my bottles with Genesee Cream Ale? Nah, I recently reviewed Cream Ale and I mentioned corn, which this doesn't have. Bigger corny notes in the Genesee Beer so that rules it out. Hang on a tick...I was looking for a stamp on the bottle for the bottling date and I found it. The 75th day of 2012?? Really?? It just showed up in the last week and a half and sold for +$11 a sixer. Good bloody grief!
I really need to just try this damn thing. I stared it down at the Parrotthead in Shelby, Oh before I moved. I never pulled the trigger. Just got pulled by bigger name beers from bigger name breweries.
Make sure you find the bottled on stamp. I wouldn't want you to get stung like I did. I fart in the distributor's general direction.
Yeah, this is sick (as Black Sheep is one of my favorite breweries on the planet). Their regular stuff is just about impossible to get fresh (or even fresh-ish) in the States now too, which is a damn crying shame. FWIW, it's been brewed stateside for at least a year or two...
We had Black Sheep in town for the longest time and I also enjoyed their brews. Well, the 3 we got: Riggwelter, Ale, and Monty Python. Then THIS showed up? I didn't have a clue.
