Oh there's been some good beer lately, in between attempting to minimize my huge stock of homebrew and craft beers and celebrating graduation. The other night, for instance, I took my small store of barleywines and had a tasting with a couple friends. Always in moderation, of course, because nobody likes a hangover. Barleywines, by the way, are just a style of beer that close to wine in alcohol content with a strong barley-centered flavor (usually fruity).
Spaten Premium Bock - A good, standard German maibock, it has a light body with a rich apple juice and spicy hops flavor.
Magic Hat Imperial IPA - Not very imperial, but a nice, bigger IPA. Hops concentrate of bitter grapefuit flavors.
Millenium (Oak-Barrel Aged) - Pineapple hops with only a hint of the whiskey barrel, not terribly rich in flavor, but very drinkable.
Komsky Charlie's Y2K Catastrophe Ale (Bourbon-Barrel Aged) - Still not that much whiskey flavor, but what there is adds a layer on top of the non-barrel aged.
Komsky Charlie's Y2K Catastrophe Ale - An odd, but good barleywine with a strong vanilla and oak flavor with a grassy English hop kick at the end.
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine - This is the standard in American barleywines. Big hops and big malt flavors combine almost to the point of making this tough to drink.
Siberian Night Imperial Stout - #67 on the BeerAdvocate Top 100. Very drinkable with complex chocolate flavors. This would be hard not to love.
Budweiser - Now for something completely different. Not as bad as some beer geeks make it out to be. It's very clean flavors with grainy malt and rice flavors and a slight tang. It's not horrible, and if it were the last beer on the world, I'd probably drink it.
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