This “pastry stout” was a Christmas gift and it is a pint of alcoholic sweet thickness. One is plenty and best had in lieu of dessert. Brave use of a Comic Sans-like font there on the label.
Oh yeah, seems like The Bruery’s most successful beers are all extremely sweet and very spiced. I find them unbalanced, but a lot of my friends love them. When I’ve tried their less intense beers, like their tripel (still a pretty strong beer), I’ve really dug them, though. We went to a Bruery night at a place in Hollywood (Blue Palms) years ago and tried a bunch. Fraggle, the owner of an excellent, now defunct beer bar in Oakland (Beer Revolution), was a huge fan of The Bruery. We used to get into drunken arguments about their beers. He was a huge beer snob so I couldn’t understand how he could love such sweet, overly-spiced beers. But he was also an old school home brewer and spicing and tarting up beers was a big thing in that scene back when there weren’t many choices. Anyway, I’ve always doubted my negative assessment of The Bruery because of Fraggle’s love of it.
One Christmas, deep in the wilds of Rural Massachusetts, I tried to pick up what look like some craft beer in a gas station. It turned out to be Harvest Moon a fake craft beer put out by Coors. It, too, had pumpkin in it. It was like trying to drink a scented candle. I suppose that, whatever it tastes like, it will have the merit of being better than that. I for one, though, refuse to believe that pumpkin belongs anywhere except, perhaps, a Goan curry*, so I’m not really its intended audience.
*The dish is made with white pumpkin and I don’t think that has quite the same sickly flavour.
That beer couldn’t be any more autumnal unless it was shedding leaves.
I would try it except I hate coffee. Ruined a perfectly decent sweet beer with that.
Will try their chocolate stout if I see it somewhere… which, since I’m not going anywhere, may be ages. And someone else should be buying, because them is some pricey brews.
I bought pumpkin goat cheese last week. I was only going to eat half of it today but somehow the entire package is gone. I shall blame EGG, who’s mad he didn’t get any, because he is a cheese fanatic.
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13 responses to “Sunday Beer: Back to Basics”
I was going to mention the Comic Sans, yeah. Man.
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I’m certain it’s deliberate. They put a lot of effort into their labels
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Hey! I’ve always had a small spot of fondness for Comic Sans 😜
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My husband got peppermint stout for the holidays. It did not go well.
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A pumpkin beer? That sounds….interesting. 🤢
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Oh yeah, seems like The Bruery’s most successful beers are all extremely sweet and very spiced. I find them unbalanced, but a lot of my friends love them. When I’ve tried their less intense beers, like their tripel (still a pretty strong beer), I’ve really dug them, though. We went to a Bruery night at a place in Hollywood (Blue Palms) years ago and tried a bunch. Fraggle, the owner of an excellent, now defunct beer bar in Oakland (Beer Revolution), was a huge fan of The Bruery. We used to get into drunken arguments about their beers. He was a huge beer snob so I couldn’t understand how he could love such sweet, overly-spiced beers. But he was also an old school home brewer and spicing and tarting up beers was a big thing in that scene back when there weren’t many choices. Anyway, I’ve always doubted my negative assessment of The Bruery because of Fraggle’s love of it.
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One Christmas, deep in the wilds of Rural Massachusetts, I tried to pick up what look like some craft beer in a gas station. It turned out to be Harvest Moon a fake craft beer put out by Coors. It, too, had pumpkin in it. It was like trying to drink a scented candle. I suppose that, whatever it tastes like, it will have the merit of being better than that. I for one, though, refuse to believe that pumpkin belongs anywhere except, perhaps, a Goan curry*, so I’m not really its intended audience.
*The dish is made with white pumpkin and I don’t think that has quite the same sickly flavour.
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It seems odd to call it ‘Back to Basics’ when it has so much stuff in it…
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I’m thinking that’s the joke, along with the Comic Sans?
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That beer couldn’t be any more autumnal unless it was shedding leaves.
I would try it except I hate coffee. Ruined a perfectly decent sweet beer with that.
Will try their chocolate stout if I see it somewhere… which, since I’m not going anywhere, may be ages. And someone else should be buying, because them is some pricey brews.
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Yeah, I assume import time meant it was a halloween beer for USA that got here by Christmas.
Treat as a desert in itself rather than a drink.
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I bought pumpkin goat cheese last week. I was only going to eat half of it today but somehow the entire package is gone. I shall blame EGG, who’s mad he didn’t get any, because he is a cheese fanatic.
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Update: I didn’t get rid of the empty wrapper in a timely fashion, and it has now been licked clean, not by me.
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