Ballantine XXX Ale

America's Largest Selling Ale is a fine cream ale with a little more bitterness than the other in its category.The smell is not the best. A beautiful clear light yellow colour and a nice creamy head that stays for a good moment before fading away if properly poured. It has a good level of carbonation despite the creaminess. An interesting dosage of hoppyness and other grains flows trough your mouth. Better enjoyed at room temperature it can also be made into a Ballantini (beer martini) This beer is often mentioned in Hunter S. Thompson's letters witch made me fall for it in the first place. It was also enjoyed by Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio,R ocky Marciano and Frank Sinatra among many. My expectations where higher but not a bad beer in general. Falstaff brewing corporation, Purity, Body and Flavour.

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4.8% alcohol

One pint, (16 fl. oz.) ,Half Quart

7.9/10

Coup de Grisou

Definitively a don't go there! Extremely perfumed smell,very sweet and tastes quite artificial, there is something unorthodox to it! Of course, you can't drink more than one of these quite cloudy beers, even if you are really thirsty. It comes in a bottle witch is cluttered with purple foil around the neck.The idea of a buckwheat beer is fine, but this one is quite hard to drink. The name means some type of methane explosion feared by miners. Really cleaver ... Of course everyone wants to drink liquid methane! Really tried to enjoy this 5%  but C'mon Man! Hope I don't get the beer shits from this! This picture is from this summer when I biked to my cottage where I found a place that sell the Photo Police newspaper witch I find very comedic with all the miscellaneous stories it focuses on.

8.99$ for 6 x 341ml in Quebec

4.5/10