Odd Side Deleterious

Every now and then i stumble upon a beer that takes me the better part of an hour or more to drink.  It's just that heavy or complex or powerful.  Odd Side Ales' Deleterious, a bourbon barrel aged imperial stout, is one of those brews.  The 14.6% ABV beer pours a dark black with a tan head and has a general roasty aroma along with some notes of raisin, tobacco, chocolate, and oak.  The flavor is a nice and warming mix of roasted malt, oak, and bourbon with some subtle notes of vanilla, chocolate, and dark fruit.  It's a wonderful drink, a slow-sipper for sure, and a great beverage to close out a weekend to.

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Bombon De La Muerte

Got positively decadent over the weekend with my beer selections, probably most notably with the Bombon De La Muerte from Odd Side Ales, a bourbon barrel aged imperial stout with chocolate and dead sea salt.  Oh my.  The 14% ABV brew pours black with a brownish tan head and smells of chocolate and booze.  The flavor is a malty mix chocolate, bourbon, oak, with some additional notes of vanilla and molasses.  It paired great with ghost stories and horror movies, and i want more of it.

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Odd Side Passion Dank Juice

What a long, strange day it's been.  Driving to work this morning with next to no traffic, the combined result of people having left town for Spring Break, the lack of influx of out-of-towners for a cancelled SXSW, and a coronavirus pandemic that just gets scarier and scarier with each passing hour.  I drove through a deserted downtown to get to the office, and then noticed the closed stores and restaurants during my lunch break.  The school district my kids attend called and emailed with the word that a return to school is now postponed until April.  And then my boss made the decision to have as many staff members as possible work remotely from home.  It's weird out there people.  And i'm trying not to panic.  And the Passion Dank Juice from Odd Side Ales is doing everything it can to help with that.  Pouring a hazy straw gold, the 6.75% New England IPA is, as its name would suggest, and dank and juicy treat.  Aromas of tropical fruit and passion fruit abound with some hints of spice and hops, and the flavor is a crisp mouthful of said tropical and passion fruits along with some grapefruit bitterness and lacey dankness.  Wonderful stuff.  I'll have to brave the virus and depleted grocery stores to obtain some more.

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Odd Side Peanut Butter Cup Stout

The can art alone made me check this one out.  Odd Side Ales' Peanut Butter Cup Stout pours a dark, brownish black with an off white, quickly dissipating head and smells like peanut butter and chocolate.  I'd say it's almost the same aroma as if you were to break a actual peanut butter cup in half.  Flavors of peanut butter and chocolate abound in this 7.75% ABV brew, with some subtle hints of toffee, coffee, and molasses.  And after some deliberation, it was decided that the song the peanut butter cups on the can are high stepping to is "Satellite of Love" by Lou Reed.  Just Because.

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