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    Baltika #9 Extra Strong

    December 4, 2009
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    Name – Baltika #9 Extra Strong
    Country – Russia
    Type – Euro Strong Lager

    Appearance – Pours a very clear amber, almost orange, color with a small white head and is gone in a jiff.

    Smell – Sweet malts with some grains.

    Taste – Starts off sweet like honey and then goes to a grainy and earthy hop taste and finishes off sweet again and with a little alcohol bite.

    A nice gentleman named Gary recommended this one to me while I was in the store so I took him up on it.  I had never had a Russian beer before nor do I recall a lager at 8% ABV before.  This is not your normal lager though.  The sweet honey like taste made it very pleasant.  The alcohol bite had quite a warming effect to it and you could definitely feel it after a couple bottles.  Enjoy it but with caution or you might find yourself talking Russian to your friends by the end of the night.  And you don’t even know how to speak it!

    Overall Grade – B

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    Yellow Snow IPA

    December 3, 2009
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    Name – Yellow Snow IPA
    Country – United States
    Type – American IPA

    Appearance – Poured a very hazy almost orange color with a big frothy white head that left a good amount of lacing on the glass.

    Smell – Grapefruit, other citrus and floral type hops.

    Taste – Big hops on this one.  Pretty much the same as the smell and a good bitterness to it but it doesn’t linger around too long.

    I’m a sucker for a new brew hitting my market from Rogue so I had to pick this one up.  If you like your IPAs well mixed with malts then I don’t think this one is for you.  But if you are a hop head then I would definitely say to pick it up and give it a whirl.

    Overall Grade – B

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    Dark Starr Stout

    December 1, 2009
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    Name – Dark Starr Stout
    Country – United States
    Type – Irish Dry Stout

    Appearance – Pours pitch black with a good sized tan head that left some lacing on the glass.

    Smell – Roasted malts with a bit of coffee and chocolate hit the nose.

    Taste – Roasted malts, coffee, bitter chocolate and a bit of hops.  Quite light in body.

    I was told about this one when Starr Hill first started getting distributed down here but for whatever reason the store by me didn’t carry this one.  It is finally in stock so I picked up a couple singles.  I would say it’s a fairly average stout.  The body was very light on it and that kind of disappointed me.  I would have liked for it to be a little heavier but oh well.  I think it would be a good gateway stout and is pretty comparable to Guinness.

    Overall Grade – C-

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