Beers To Try Before you Die or the Beer Bucket 52 List 3 More Honorable Mentions

So I was really excited over the Sam Adams Double Bock I could not locate it for a couple of weeks in the stores I frequent, and finally while food shopping I came across it in the beer cooler. I bought it and already had plans to try some other beers that weekend (See Dogfish Head beers here) so I put it in the fridge and held off till this past weekend. 

Now if you have followed my blog you know some of my favorite beers come from Sam Adams. There are very few I don’t like as a matter of fact only one Sam beer have I ever not enjoyed (it was back before I started this blog) Anyway I poured this beer that I had been waiting to try and the first sip was outstanding, but then the aftertaste was not the greatest, not bad but just not as good as the initial sip. Don’t know if it was I expected more in my initial expectations, or just was not feeling it that night. Double Bock is still a very good beer I almost want to give it a shot (a half rating) just to keep it on the list, but that would not be fair to the many other beers out there I think are outstanding beers. So I give this one an honorable mention (Don’t fret Sam Adams, you have plenty of beers that will appear on this list) I can say if you are a fan of Bocks you may really like this beer. So give it a try anyway.

A few weeks earlier I had tried a few beers during one of our monthly UFC events. I came across New Belgium and 3 Floyds Gratzer Ale. It was kind of strange. This was the night I hit my Skunky beer which was not fun See Post here But this one was not a skunky beer or a bad beer just fell short of being a great beer. The only way I can describe it was the taste was almost there like it was missing something. It had the potential to be a really good it was almost irritating that I would take a sip wait for ta taste to hit me that was missing. The taste that I did get the only way I can explain it was fresh cut grass on a spring day (No it did not taste like grass but that was what I imagined) So I can give this an honorable mention, if they tweeked it a bit and  added some more flavor,again not sure what, more hops? Some type of Citrus? With anything I think it would have potential.

The final Honorable Mention was East Side IPA from Excel Brewing Company. It was a decent IPA, but with some of the IPAs I had been drinking it was hard to measure up to the taste of those. Again a good beer and that is why it is in the Honorable mention category, if you like IPAs you may enjoy this one it is smooth and easy to drink

To view what all the ratings mean go to the 52 Beers to try Before You die Bucket list page

Disclaimer I am a beer drinker and a beginner home brewer the above is only my taste buds telling me what I enjoy, it is not the law or rule of the land, these would be the beers that I am grateful to have tried before the day comes when I pass on and meet my maker.