Time to unveil the best beers that I drank this month…..and it runs the style gamut.
#4 is the Trader Joe’s and Hardywood Joe Joe’s Chocolate Vanilla Creme Stout. The beer equivalent of TJ’s Oreo simulacrum. Yes, it is sweet and yes a 12oz serving would be better but it did nail that cookie experience.
#3 is a Kilkenny brewed Irish stout from Sullivan’s, Black Marble Stout. Had the creamy pour and the roast notes that you would get from any of the Irish troika of Guinness, Beamish or Murphys.
#2 Cellarmaker had a lovely anniversary pale ale for their 12th orbit around the sun. It struck the correct balance of hops and malts.
# 1 is a Los Angeles collaboration between Ogopogo and El Segundo Brewing, what they call a small IPA Li’l Thunderbird. Bright and punch with hops but at a much more sessionable 5.5%.
