Powder Hollow Brewery Holiday Spiced Ale
16 oz can, $ I don’t want to know, 6.1% ABV
Purchased at Harvest, West Hartford
Let me preface this mess by saying that the reasons I found this beer horrible had nothing to do with the spice additions I often abhor. No, the spices added to this lackluster base ale were quite limited for once. (Kudos on that!)
For perhaps the first time in CTMQ history, I think there should have been MORE spice dumped into this beer. Perhaps then it would have masked the weirdly dry and bitter and musty and sanitizer-like base beer.
Silent Night
Silent night, Holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin, mother and child
Holy infant, tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
~ Record scratch ~
Silent night, Holy shite
All is wrong, all’s a’fright
Run ye virgins, mothers and lads
Holy Jesus, this beer is bads
Dump down the-sink-drain please,
Dump down the-sink-drain please.
Deck the Halls
Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la!
~ Record scratch ~
Dreck all y’alls and I’m not joking, Fa la la la la la la la!
‘Tis the season to brew folly, Fa la la la la la la la!
Don we now our hazmat outfit, Fa la la la la la la la!
Troll your friends and gift them this shit, Fa la la la la la la la!
O Holy Shite!
O holy shite!
The beer is smelling icky
It is the night I chose to drink it!
It smells of extract and tastes of moldy bread
I don’t even know how this tune goes anymore
But no one cares because no one is drinking this.
A trickle of faint spice breaks through the disinfectant taste
I seriously couldn’t drink but a third of the can!
Fall on your knees
Oh hear the angel voices
Oh night of death
Oh night when I drank this crap
Oh night of death
Oh night of death
Happy Holidays. This beer is awful. Overly dry, antiseptic, weirdly spiced, thin, off-putting, and detestable. I hate to crap on little breweries, but sweet baby Jesus, this should never have been made, let alone canned and distributed.
Way to make me hate my silly little hobby, Powder Hollow. Thanks.
Overall Rating: F
Rating vs. Similar style: F
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