Spinach and Sausage Casserole.

From Elise. I apparently just didn't take pictures for a while.

Uinta Crooked Line Tilted Smile Imperial Pilsner.

Here's another imperial pilsner. I wonder if this is going to be the next trendy style to have. The Gordon Biersch IPB is pretty good. I am also a fan of the Sam Adams Noble Pils. This one comes off as a little too malty and creamy, not enough clean, light hop flavor. Maybe it's a little old. I left in the fridge and forgot about it for at least a month and who knows how long it was sitting on a store shelf before that.

It's pretty easy-going for being a stiff 9%. Oh, the bottle is stamped with a bottled-on date of 5/22/12. So kinda old.

The label is nice, certainly drinkable, but not what I'm looking for in an imperial pilsner.

Brewery de Ranke XX Bitter.

From a bottle trade, though I've since had it at WF tastings. It doesn't have a strong typical Belgian character with all the candi sugar and spices and such. It's much more of a plain golden with a notable pils hop character with some extra white wine astringency on the back.

Firestone Walker Wookey Jack.

Style tweaks are getting ridiculous. This is like two cousins having a baby. Is it a rye ale crossed with a black IPA or is it a rye IPA crossed with a black IPA? It's a pretty hoppy black IPA, regardless. Smells malty, tastes malty, feels malty. And the hops are muddy in a rich way. A little too much residue for my liking though and not terribly spicy.

Anchor Christmas Ale.

Not going to lie, I'm not a big fan of Christmas ales or wee heavies or winter warmer usually. Not a fan of this one either. Too much fruitiness, cherry, prune, a little bit of dark chocolate, too sweet and tart instead of malty and smooth. No more words here.

Yeah, so Blogger has basically neutered the functionality/semantics of "draft" to the point where it is not really usable for me. I start a draft when I drink something, but I don't upload a picture at that point because I do those in batches. But if I go back and edit a draft and try to publish or not even publish, just edit, the publish time gets set to current time. So, in order to preserve the ordering, I have to publish from the UI and then go back and edit to insert the picture, which preserves the original publish time. What a headache.

So there's going to be lot of posts without pictures for a while.

Devil's Canyon Bourbon-barrel Aged Scotch Ale.

A bottle from a trade. Most bourbon barrel-aged stuff tends to me stouts, so I was pleased to see something different here. Typical looking pour. First taste, my face: >:*

This thing is sour. At first I thought infected, which would be a bummer because this is a limited brew. But after reading some comments on BA, maybe this is just how it was intended. The nose is really pleasant: smoky vanilla and caramel. Which is also what you get in the center of your tongue, but everything around it is pretty tart. A quick swig without too much pontification will save you from most of the funk, but still, pretty weird.

Wow, I don't even have a scotch tag. That seems weird.