Brewery: Matt Brewing Company, Utica, NY
Brewery Description: “A beer that would make the English jealous! This true English Pale Ale is rich and fruity, yet finishes crisp. You’ll love the copper amber color and medium body.”
Brew Style: English Pale Ale, 5.50% ABV
Recommended Glassware: English pint
The Ugly Truth: Alright, four beers down and two more to [...]

Brewery: The Matt Brewing Company, Utica, NY
Brewery Description: (from site) “A Bavarian black beer with distinctive carmel malt sweetness and rich creamy trademark head. Flavorful, yet smooth; it is very drinkable!”
Brew Style:Schwarzbier, 5.3% ABV
Recommended Glassware: Flute, pilsner glass
The Ugly Truth: Alright, slowly getting back on track with writing reviews.  Saranac Black Forest.  Not an awesome [...]

Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Delaware, USA
Brewery Description: “A deep, mahogany ale brewed with beet sugar, green raisins, and Belgian-style yeast. As complex as a fine, red wine. Voted “American Beer of the Year” in January 2000 by Malt Advocate Magazine.”
Brew Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale, 8.0% ABV
Recommended Glassware: Goblet, Snifter
The Ugly Truth: First off, [...]

Brewery: Cervejaria Sul Brasileira, Brazil
Brewery Description: An opaque, full-bodied black lager with mild bitterness. Extravagant treacle and anise aromas. Rich and creamy, well balanced sweet notes and hints of [...]

Brewery: Appalachian Brewing Company, Harrisburg, PA
Brewery Description: This flavorful sweet ale has a smooth malt finish balanced against a light hop flavor. This beer is very quaffable and has become a brewpub favorite throughout the United States.
“Jolly Scot” was a famed local beer produced by R.H. Graupners Brewery that was located at 10th and Market [...]

Brewery: The Duck Rabbit Craft Brewery, Farmville, NC
Brewery Description: “The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter is deep, rich and velvety soft. A full blooded roasty character is balanced by complex alcohol notes. Strong (9% alcohol by volume) yet unfailingly subtle, this special brew warrants sipping and savoring.”
Brew Style: Baltic Porter, 9.0% ABV
Recommended Glassware: English pint, Tulip, Stein
The [...]

Brewery: Boston Beer Company (aka Samuel Adams), Boston, MA
Brewery Description: “Sam Adams Light® is not just a lighter version of our Samuel Adams Boston Lager® but rather the culmination of over two years of tireless research and brewing trials to create a flavorful Light beer. And it has proved to be worth the wait. Brewed [...]

Brewery: Boston Beer Company (aka Samuel Adams), Boston, MA
Brewery Description: The first thing one notices in a Samuel Adams® Winter Lager is its color: the deep brown of winter. Then comes the magical aroma which promises something special on the tongue. The warm aroma of cinnamon and ginger which blends with the roasty sweetness of [...]

Brewery: Lakefront Brewery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Brewery Description: “In the words of our President and founding father, Russ Klisch, “Klisch Pilsner is a meat and potatoes beer,” meaning that though there are no darker specialty grains used to influence the color or texture of this beer, it is nonetheless a full-bodied satisfying all-malt brew. The recipe is [...]

Brewery: Shipyard Brewing Company, Portland, ME
Brewery Description: “This light copper single hop India Pale Ale is brewed only with the Fuggles hops. It has a smooth, dry, and crisp flavor with floral aroma and apple plum palate.”
Brew Style: India Pale Ale, 5.8% ABV
Recommended Glassware: Shaker, Tulip
The Ugly Truth: “Oh my god! Its an [...]

Brewery: St. George Brewing Company, Hampton, Virginia
Brewery Description: “Full body, golden straw color, high perceived bitterness, malty, very strong citrus flavor, slight diacetyl, medium-high carbonation.”
Brew Style: American Pale Ale, 5% ABV
Recommended Glassware: Lager, Shaker
The Ugly Truth: As we move our way through my mixed 6 pack, we now find ourselves landing on St. George Pale [...]

Brewery: Greene King, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Brewery Description: “A smooth-tasting ale enhanced to offer an elegant happy floral nose, a nutty malty palate and a lingering malty sweetness.”
Brew Style: Bitter, 4.4% ABV
Recommended Glassware: English pint
The Ugly Truth: So in order to get back into the beer reviewing groove, since I’ve been a bit behind [...]

Brewery: Harbin Beer Company (Anheuser-Busch), Harbin, China
Brewery Description: Yeah, the whole site is in Chinese which I sadly do not understand. This was all I could find: “Inspired by the Tradition and Culture of China’s Most Northern Province of Hellongjiang.”
Brew Style: Pale lager, 5.5% ABV
Recommended Glassware: Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager, Shaker, Stein
The Ugly [...]

Brewery: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Chico, California
Brewery Description: “Our Summerfest is a refreshing, pilsner-style lager. Its incredible smoothness comes from an extra-long lagering period. Lighter [...]

Brewery: Boston Beer Company, Boston, MA
Brewery Description: “Samuel Adams® Honey Porter is a full-flavored, full-bodied English porter with a substantial roasted malt character, offering a smooth, rounded finish. This beer is brewed with traditional English Ale hops and is dry-hopped with East Kent Goldings, known for their spicy aroma and distinctive, earthy flavor. We brew [...]

Brewery: Rogue Ales, Newport, Oregon
Brewery Description: Gratefully dedicated to the Rogue in each of us. In the early 1990s Dead [...]

Brewery: Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, VT
Brewery Description: “An ale whose mysterious and unusual palate will swirl across your tongue and ask more questions than it answers. A beer brewed clandestinely and given a name whose meaning is never revealed. Why #9? Why, indeed. A sort of dry, crisp, fruity, refreshing, [...]

Brewery: Wychwood Brewery, Witney, Oxfordshire, England
Brewery Description: “A pale golden potion with delicate red hues, WychCraft has a heady burst of fresh citrus aroma derived from three infusions of Styrian golding hops. A sprig of gentle warming malty flavour finishes with a dry biscuit note and a counterpoise of bitterness.”
Brew Style: Bitter/English Pale Ale, 4.5% [...]

Brewery: Bierbrouwerij St. Christoffel, JB Roermond, Netherlands
Brewery Description: Oh Christ ” Ooit geboren als “Christoffel Bier” was dit het eerste bier dat door Bierbrouwerij St. Christoffel werd gebrouwen. Na het verschijnen van Christoffel Robertus is dit bier hernoemd en heeft het de naam Blond meegekregen, verwijzend naar de kleur van het bier. [...]

Brewery: Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, Vermont
Brewery Description: I had to use the one off of a different site because the Magic Hat webiste was having issues so I couldn’t find it. “Earthy, rich and steeped in autumn’s magic: it’s an ale of change. This potent infusion is haunted by memories of summer and [...]