Happy New Beer!!!

New Year, new beer, new cheer and perhaps a new dare?   Dare to try something different that might challenge your beer buds?  Maybe you’re intimidated by the plethora of craft beer variety available, most with bold outlandish flavour variations, so you therefore stick loyally to the reliable bland Beer Baron brews?  Fortunately the ‘Lakefront Brewery’ from Milwaukee, USA may have this conundrum sorted.  With their easy-drinking flavourful but not over the top beers that quietly massage the taste buds without ripping them out like some craft brewers pride themselves on, Lakefront may transition you into the craft beer market.

The ‘Klisch Pilsner’ - named after the two brothers who founded the brewery from a homebrew kit like all successful beermeisters seem to do - is a refreshing summertime brew. Tasting like a crisp sharp clean lager only with a slight Belgium bent via twists of fruit and subtle yeast flavours.

The ‘Fixed Gear’ is red ale with rye grains that create colour, caramel flavours and whiskey overtones combining with big American hops resulting in a tingly tang.  This one will keep your pedals going round while looking for the gear shifter.

And, like all good bike riders, get your coffee hit with ‘Fuel Café’.  Tasting like a cold vanilla espresso, this will definitely give you some mojo for the sprint finish with its 6.4%abv.

‘Eye P A’ wafts of hops, and tastes of grapefruit and brown sugar.  Initially the hop bitterness curls the tongue to the roof of the mouth then the smooth malt flavours flatten it back to normal.

So if you’re a binger or sipper these ’transition beers’ cover all the four seasons we seem to be having this summer!  I can’t think of a better dare?

Bellynote:  Must mention another tongue curler from America but this one is made solely with NZ green bullet hops and funnily enough it’s called ‘Green Bullet’, from Green Flash Brewery.  It’s a seasonal release triple IPA 10%er and man, the strong piney hop taste is as bitter as an Indian O.D.I. player!

DC, doing the drinking for you!