Brewed by: 3 Floyds Brewing, Munster, Indiana
Description (from the website): "Alpha King’s festive cousin. A big American Christmas Porter brewed with English chocolate malt, Mexican sugar, and tons of strange American hops. The pronounced hop bitterness gives way to flavors of molasses and chocolate from the roasted malt bill."
Would I buy it again? If I were presented with this beer blind, absent any notions of festivity, I would like this beer. It's a solid porter from a well-known and fairly large craft brewery. But this beer has been advertised as a Christmas beer, and I'm sorry, but I'm not seeing it. This is quite literally just a porter, and I can get one of those any time of year. You can't just advertise a plain old porter as a Christmas beer, it's just wrong. I've never had Alpha King, which apparently this beer is related to, but if I were a betting man, I'd wager that this is the same beer with different packaging. Just make sure you don't sell the two beers at the same time and no one will ever notice that they're actually one in the same. That's my conspiracy theory to end the year.
So no, I would not buy this again, despite overall quite enjoying it. I'd rather spend my money on something worse that actually tried to be festive.
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