Beer of the Week

The beer: Belly of the Beast

Brewed by: Rockingham Brewing Company, Derry, New Hampshire

Description (from the can): "Delve through the dense froth into cavernous black layers of roasted malts. Engulfed with smoke and infused with salty sweet bacon ... if you dare enter the Belly of the Beast!"

Would I buy it again? Sometimes, you see a beer that you know won't be all that enjoyable but it's so weird and out there you have to try it anyway. Imperial bacon stout. How I could resist trying that? Well, I tried pretty hard, considering I picked it up in June, but I digress. The name promised a lot, and while I'm glad this beer doesn't actually taste like bacon, it's still not particularly enjoyable. It's smoky, but not in a tasty way, like the smoked maple porter from a few weeks ago. I'm glad I tried it out, but there's no way I'd get it again. 

Beer of the Week

The beer: Blueberry Crumb Crumb

Brewed by: Rockingham Brewing Company, Derry, New Hampshire

Description (from Untappd): "Collaboration with Bearded Baking Co in Manchester, NH. Brewed with 25 lbs of Blueberry Crumb Cake and extra cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, lactose & blueberries"

Would I buy it again? I wasn't quite sure how this one would turn out, but I was pleasantly surprised. You see a cake-flavored pastry stout and you expect it to be absurdly sweet, but this really wasn't. I couldn't distinctly taste the blueberries, but they added enough balance to counter all the sweetness of the other ingredients. I'd buy it again.