An Amateur Beer Snob’s Guide to Beer: The D Beers
An amateur beer snob provides chapter “D” from his ebook, “An Amateur Beer Snob’s Guide to Beer,” soon available on the Amazon Kindle and at Smashwords.
What you will find below
The listings below will include the name of the beer, my numerical ranking based upon my own scale of 0.1 to 10.0, and a little of my personal thoughts about each beer. Here and there I’ll also throw in a few funny or interesting quotes about beer from famous folks. And if you’re curious about my ranking systems, let’s just say that a 5.0 is a decent beer, a 1.0 is an awful beer and a 10.0 is a fantastic beer.
D beers
5.2
A French beer made by Brasserie Fischer which is in competition with the most common Mexican-style beers, such as Corona and Anheuser-Busch’s Tequiza. It tastes kind of like Corona with a strong fruity, spiced sweetness added in. One is pretty good, but after a few the fruity flavor get a little annoying. Made with a tad bit of tequila.
Devil Mountain Black Honey Ale
8.0
Imagine a stout with plenty of honey stirred in and you’ve got this beer. Trust me, it’s worth tasting. The sweetness comes from African black honey. Though this drink is very stout-like, it doesn’t quite have the bitter strength of a stout, though it does have the texture and coloring of a stout.
Devil Mountain Five Malt Ale
6.0
This beer comes from Devil Mountain Brewing Company. This brewery’s beers were supposedly originally brewed in an old railroad station in Northern California. The batch of beers I drank from had Cincinnati, Ohio, marked as their brewing place. This is so sturdy it could almost pass for a stout (okay, okay, a weak stout). The taste grows sweeter the more you drink.
Devil Mountain Honey Wheat
3.0
Smooth and frothy but way too sweet, so much so that the sweetness lowers this beer’s score considerably.
Devil Mountain Railroad Gold Ale
5.7
A cloudy pale ale-type drink with a little sweetness. Goes down smooth and wet.
Devil Mountain Summer Mountain Brew
5.3
Watery and weak but still too strong for your average Budweiser drinker. A slight bitterness with some fizz. The light fruity smell is quite nice. There are worse beers out there.
Devil Mountain Tasmanian Pale Ale
5.9
A little strong for a pale ale but goes down smooth. There’s a train on the cover. This brew would score a little higher if it weren’t so bitter. It’s called a Tasmanian pale ale because the hops are supposedly Tasmanian.
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