March 2014 ~ Monthly Beer Reviews

I do apologize for being late with this post but the past four weeks has been very hectic with work and with all the travel (which included a trip to central Pennsylvania and another to Eastern PA, Maryland and Delaware), it has led to a ton of reviews for the month of March (70 in total).  Unfortunately I think my work travelling is coming to an end which means I may have to go out and get a real job soon.  Anyways, lets get to the good stuff…the good beers for March:

Top 5 Beer Reviews for March (okay, it is 7 but they are solid ticks):

• Cantillon Saint Lamvinus ~ Lambic – Fruit ~ 5.0% ABV ~ 4.5 /5 Rating
• Selins Grove Brewing Framboise ~ Vegetable / Fruit Ale ~ 6.5% ABV ~ 4.5 /5 Rating
• Pizza Boy Brewing Permasmile ~ American Wild Ale ~ 5.0% ABV ~ 4.4 /5 Rating
• Goose Island Bourbon County Bramble Rye ~ American Double / Imperial Stout ~ 14.2% ABV ~ 4.4 /5 Rating
• Forest & Main Brewing Upward Facing Eyes ~ Farmhouse / Saison Ale ~ 5.0% ABV ~ 4.3 /5 Rating
• Otter Creek Citra Mantra ~ American Pale Lager ~ 5.7% ABV ~ 4.3 /5 Rating
• Goose Island Bourbon County Barleywine ~ American Barleywine ~ 12.1% ABV ~ 4.3 /5 Rating

 

The 5 Beer Reviews that made me realize that everything can not be a Wild Ale or Bourbon County variant:

• Terrapin Brewing Cabernet Barrel Aged Monks Revenge ~ Belgian IPA ~ 9.8% ABV ~ 3.1 /5 Rating
• Stewarts Brewing Citra IPA ~ American IPA ~ ABV Unknown ~ 3.1 /5 Rating
• Left Hands Brewing Sawtooth Ale with Peaches ~ English Special Bitter ~ 5.3% ABV ~  2.9 /5 Rating
• Picobrouwerij Alvinne Phi ~ American Wild Ale ~ 10.0% ABV ~ 2.8 /5 Rating
• And the beer that made me wish I had chosen a better brewery other than Stewarts was Stewarts Brewing Kolsch ~ Kolsch ~ 2.7 /5 Rating

I know it may catch some of your of guard that there is an Otter Creek in my top 5 beers for this month but they must have finally realized that they can still make good beers and sell them to the masses.  I am not calling them the new White Whale brewery of the week but they have launches three straight beers that are better tan most other shelf beers or even some rarities in some cases.  Obviously, they are still no Cantillon…but few breweries are 🙂