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Beer No: 91
Page No: 301
Category: Amber

Hello Day 13 of the World Cup.  What an absolutely amazing day.  First, in the morning games, the United States once again got robbed on a goal where the player was called offsides and clearly wasn’t, but despite being eliminated with a tie, the United States pushed on, and in the first minute of extra time, finally scored a goal.  So both the United States and England advance on the back of 0-1 wins.  My prediction was 100% correct from a couple days ago.

However, even though my logic doesn’t really make sense when I go back and read my predictions from Group D, I did say that Germany and Ghana would advance, like they did.  I really wasn’t expecting Australia to play the way they did though.  They beat Serbia, 2-1, and, had a 2-0 lead at one point and was just one goal away from advancing.  Unfortunately, they couldn’t push it to 3-0 and Germany couldn’t score a second goal to help out Australia, so in the end, we’ll see United States vs. Ghana and England vs. Germany this weekend.  I can’t wait.  My two favorite teams are still in it, and now they’re on opposite sides of the bracket, so here’s hoping for a United States / Germany final.

As you can see, I switched up the layout for the 1001 Beers blog.  They introduced some new features, including “Pages” so now I have set pages for “About 1001 Beers.net” and “All Beer Reviews by Date.”  I think the new layout is also easier to read and a bit easier on the eyes without the yellow.  There’s another layout I really liked, but I’m probably going to stick with this layout for a while now.

Back to the beer though.  Generally, I’m not the biggest fan of Samuel Smith breweries in England, but there’s just something about this Yorkshire Stingo that I enjoyed.  It wasn’t really the explosion of malts as I’m not the biggest fan of malty beers, but I think the complexity gained from aging the beer in oak ale casks really enhances all the flavors and makes this 8% beer really enjoyable and flavorful.  The aroma is very strong with fruits, raisins, and malts while the taste balances the fruity sweetness with nice malts and a subtle oak flavor.  It’s really a great, interesting beer you should try and track down.

My review, cross-posted at RateBeer.com:

Aroma: 8/10
Appearance: 4/5
Taste: 8/10
Palate: 4/5
Overall: 15/20

Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Had from 550ml bottle from BevMo. Pours hazy amber with thick two-finger head and ample lacing. Aroma is lots of sweet fruits, raisins, toffee, and malts. Taste is complex with the alcohol just coming out at the end of a complicated sip of malty sugars, raisins, prunes, subtle oak flavors, and caramel. I was very surprised by this beer and really enjoyed it. A rare exceptional offering from Samuel Smith.

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