Nippletop

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Nippletop

• Brewery: Lake Placid Brewing Company (New York)

• Style: Milk Stout

• ABV: 4.9%

• IBU: 

• Pour Color: Dark Dark Brown... Light fails to make it thru!

      Nippletop is a dark beer on pour. Even that head on the top had a dark brown color. The head was nice and creamy on the top. It stuck around for awhile. The scent off the top is roasted malts and alcohol. The taste has a nice complexity of roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. The feel in the mouth is much fuller then most beers. It shows the use of oatmeal and lactose sugars in the brewing. It leaves a nice creamy feel all around. Not a bad beer to come down from the mountain for!
    Nippletop is a good but not great milk stout. It's got your strong malts to warm the insides. It's also got a great feel in your mouth. That coffee roasted flavor is really good too. All of these things though just don't go far enough for me. It's almost watered down at the finish to me. Still a good stout that most beer drinkers will like!

Rating: ***1/2

UBU

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Ubu Ale

• Brewery: Lake Placid Brewing (New York)

• Style: English Strong Ale

• ABV: 7.0%

• IBU: 30

• Pour Color: A red see through pour

      The Ubu ale poured much darker then I expected. The head was no where near worthy of me and I chopped it down easily. A sip or two it was gone. There really wasn't a scent off the top of the beer. As it crept up to soak me i didn't know what to expect. The first taste was bitter from the hops but malty at the same time. As a English strong ale it has that earthy taste that you expect from the English. More a cross between a scotch ale and a red ale in flavor. It also had almost a sour taste that didn't seem to come from expiration. Not one I would go for again. This one the Face can keep.
        Lake Placid is another one of the beers made locally. Actually the same place that does Saranac does lake placid the way I understand it. This is the beer I see most of theirs on shelf and seems to represent them. I personally think there's a lot of English strong ales that are balanced and delicious. This one just wasn't one of em as far as my hairs could tell.



 Rating: ***1/2