Lunch

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Lunch

• Brewery: Maine Beer Company (Maine)

• Style: IPA

• ABV: 7%

• IBU:

• Pour Color: A extremely hop hazed golden/amber color

      You open this bottle and find out quick you in a hop haze! The scent comming out the bottle gave a preview of the glass. It was strong pine, citrus, and passion fruit. A bouquet that made the face's wife look at me and say "I can smell it from here!" The color of the pour is gold and quite hazy showing the hop residue in this IPA. The head was fluffy and big and didn't just go away. I was afraid it was going to be over whelmed. The flavor is where it just gets real so much better! You got a buffet of hop goodness just dancing on the follicles! Passion fruit, orange, pine, and a slight grassy flavor. All and all it's the most flavor packed IPA I've ever had. This beer is incredible!
      As far as a IPA goes this is it. As far as a great beer with complexity and verity in flavor this is it! Recently i've had Heady Topper and Ghandi-Bot also top rated beers but still I compare them to my favorite beer. Dale's is my favorite beer period. Deviant Dale's used to be my special occasion must have beer. There is no question that this is now my must have for,or just after, any celebration that's really special!

Rating: *****

Simcoe Spring

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Simcoe Spring

• Brewery: Peak Organic (Maine)

• Style: Pale Ale

• ABV: 5.4%

• IBU: 66

• Pour Color: A golden copper color that is easily seen thru

      This one was a darker straw color as it poured and left a nice head. The head would leave a nice island at the top and lacing all the way down. The simcoe comes through as a nice fruity scent. A citrus and pasion fruit scent are easy to smell. The feel in the mouth is light and smooth. The malts give a nice sweet flavor that just makes it easy drinking. A interesting pale. 
      I'm kinda blown away by this one. I like overly hopped or so dark you can't see thru it. This is neither of those. This is a nice spring offering that really gives a kick with simplicity. One hop really gives a lot of character in a beer I expected to be an average pale. It being by a organic brewery makes you think twice on what matters in brewing too!

Rating: ****1/2

Lobster Ale

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Lobster Ale

• Brewery: Belfast Bay Brewing Company (Maine)

• Style: Red Ale

• ABV: 5.5%

• IBU:?

• Pour Color: Dark almost bronze or orange color, light passes through easily.

      As the face poured, I could smell a sweet malty scent. This one smelled much more high alcohol then the 5.5 it's listed at. The head was big and creamy strangely enough. It sat on the top of the glass for a good while. This one has a real strange taste for a red ale. Raisin and caramel flavors are fine but don't blend well with the hops. A slightly bitter kick that makes it taste almost like a watered down whiskey or bourbon. Not a favorite of mine.
      This one wasn't that good. It seemed like a beer that didn't have a place. It had some of the characters of a red ale but seriously tasted watered down. The flavors are all there to be a great beer but there just to muted. The muted flavors then leave you with a weird after taste. You could easily find red ales I love on this site. Lobster really isn't that memorable. 

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McGovern's Oatmeal Stout

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: McGovern's Oatmeal Stout

• Brewery: Belfast Bay Brewing
  

• Style: Oatmeal Stout

• ABV: 5.1%

• IBU:20

• Pour Color: Black and no light travels through

      This one said the coffee lovers beer on the package! Challenge excepted me and the Face decided. Seeing the head rise up on this one a chocolate brown I knew we found a good one. The scent off the glass is coffee and a sweet almost fig scent. On first taste you get a sweet caramel flavor. As you drink more though you get that nice coffee bitter that you would expect. This beer also has a nice body. Full but not thick as bread. The yeast comes through cleanly and helps bring out more of that coffee. Overall lived up to most my expectations, as a said coffee lover!
      This was a great stout from Maine. Bitter and full body it's a strong contrast from Sea Dog brewing. To sea dogs defense though, fruit beers have to be something special to rate, and that's all I've had from them. If you get a McGovern's and not at least appreciate it then you must not appreciate beer. 

Rating: ****1/2

Raspberry

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Raspberry

• Brewery: Sea Dog Brewing (Maine)

• Style: Fruit Beer

• ABV: 4.7%

• IBU:

• Pour Color: A dark beer on pour. When held up to light shows red through.

      Another sea dog beer and another fruit flavor. I think the face likes these guys or something. On pour it's golden and crisp. The head really didn't show up when this one was poured. The scent is a sweet raspberry. On taste it's also the taste of that sweet raspberry. The wheat is mellow but it's there especially as you swallow. Almost a biscuit flavor that mixes well with the echos of raspberry. 
      Sea Dog really knows how to make fruit beers drinkable. At 4.7% this one has a higher alcohol level then most the fruit beers out there. As with the other Sea Dog this one is a fruit first beer. The difference with this one though, is that it has the wheat flavor, really making the fruit crisper. This is a really good fruit beer.

 

Rating: ****

Apricot

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Apricot
  

• Brewery: Sea Dog brewing co. (Maine)

• Style: Fruit Beer

• ABV: 4.6%

• IBU:

• Pour Color: A golden color with a orange haze.

      The Face grabbed himself another fruit beer today. Nice little apricot treat. As Face poured it the head disappeared quickly. A nice golden color that has just a slight orange to it. As I was drenched in it I realized this is much stronger of a apricot taste then most. Sweet also it has a ripe flavor of apricot. Nothing else really shines through strongly. A interesting take on fruit beer.
      Sea Dog has a wide verity of beers in many styles. This one is my second sea dog to taste and the first I have reviewed. I really enjoy the Sea Dog Blueberry and this one is in the same vain as that one. Strong straight forward fruit flavor! This one however just wasn't the same level as the Blueberry .

  

Rating: ***1/2