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    Terrapin Maggie’s Farmhouse Ale

    January 5, 2010
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    Name – Terrapin Maggie’s Farmhouse Ale
    Country – United States
    Type – Saison

    Appearance – Pours a cloudy and bubbly golden, straw yellow color.  A bubbly white head disappears rather quickly.

    Smell – Pretty standard yeasty, cloves and bit of banana.

    Taste – Again it seemed pretty standard.  You had your yeasty taste with cloves and other spices.  Bananas can be picked up a bit too.

    We just recently started getting Terrapin distributed again in our area.  Believe it or not but the counties above and below us got them but we weren’t for almost a year.  Maggie’s is part of their Side Project Series of one off brews.  There was only one bottle left in the store when I saw it so I went for it.  It is pretty standard in the way of saisons.  Nothing outstanding jumps out but it isn’t dull either.  Just right in the middle.  But I am looking forward to trying the next in the line of the Side Project series, The Dark Side Belgian Style Imperial Stout.

    Overall Grade – C

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    Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic

    January 4, 2010
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    Name – Samuel Adams Cranberry Lambic
    Country – United States
    Type – Fruit Beer

    Appearance – Poured a quite murky copper color with no head at all.  Both bottles I had brought forth no head.

    Smell – Very faint cranberry smell.  It isn’t hard to pick up but it is very weak.  Not much else.

    Taste – A tart cranberry taste up front followed by……nothing really.  It just seems to sputter and fall at the very beginning.

    I’ll be honest and say I have heard bad things about this one in the past and I tried to look past it for my review.  Unfortunately my attempts at putting those things out of my head were thwarted upon actually drinking it.  It lacks any real qualities of a lambic as it is like drinking watered down cranberry juice.  A real disappointment but really the only major let down of the holiday pack.

    Overall Grade – D-

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    Belhaven Wee Heavy

    January 2, 2010
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    Name – Belhaven Wee Heavy
    Country – Scotland
    Type – Scotch Ale

    Appearance – Pours a murky brown color with some red in there.  Good sized slightly off white head that left some lacing.

    Smell – Sweet malts with a bit of an apple and smoke smell as well.

    Taste – Sweet malts there as well with apples, dark fruit and some roasted malt flavors.  A bit of smoke in there as well.

    I’ve been told by some time to try this one and being that I haven’t tried a Scotch ale in quite some time I figured it was finally time.  Excellent blend of flavors in this one that made me a little upset I didn’t get a second bottle.  Oh well I can always go back to the store.  If you like Scotch Ales (Wee Heavys) then you have to try this one.

    Overall Grade – A

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