Thursday, January 1, 2009

1. Our Special Ale 2008 - Anchor Steam Brewing Company

Hi, we're Haley and Jordan. We like to drink beer. Yes we do. I work sometimes at an awesome chocolate shop that also sells beer and wine. We have over 90 different beers so usually when people ask me about beers I haven't tried them so I just rattle off whatever the bottle says the beer tastes like or what the beer rep said about it, so it'll be nice to try all the beers and see what they actually taste like. We're going to start out with mostly winter and Christmas ales, since it's that time of year and then move on to other things.


Ok, so the beer. We bought it because Kelly recommended that we drink it at some point and we found it at the store yesterday. The first thing I noticed when I opened it up was that it totally smelled like soy sauce. The first think we noticed when we tasted it was that it totally tasted like soy sauce. Imagine that. Well it wasn't salty like soy sauce, so I guess it was like low sodium soy sauce. On top of the soyiness it was slightly bitter, which was nice, but not nice enough to overpower the soy. Oh, but Jordan doesn't think it tasted like soy sauce in a bad way. Either way it wasn't very good. It did have an interesting orange-y color, but that's neither here nor there. The label says that each year's batch of this stuff has a different recipe, so perhaps we'll try it again next December and it'll be better.

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