This month for the featured reviews, I will compare two beers from one brewery. Rank the apples to oranges as it were.
First stop is the recently 1 year old Transplants Brewing. Let’s check out Filbert….
Not much head to it. Have to pour hard to bring up foam. Left me worried to start, but this turns out to be a really nice tasting chocolate brown ale with a slight touch of filbert nuttiness to it. Milk chocolate aroma then follows into the taste strongly and surely. Filbert lingers a bit on the palate before the nut part finally comes through. In between sweet and dry.
El Mas Guapo
Light on the promised guava but the IPA part shines brightly. Guapo has a clean stonefruit taste with powerful hops at the start. The fruit comes in but is subtle and light and only peeks through as the beer warms up. Getting some dank undertones here too.
If forced to pick, Filbert would be my go to due to the chocolate almost candy bar taste.