Month: January 2021

Beer Flavored Stuff, BLEH!

Beer flavored packaged food items are everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Especially as we approach the Super Bowl, but in general ‘beer’ is being used as an adjective more and more, and I’m the sucker that always falls for it. Sometimes they even say ‘craft beer’, like these pretzels that I did end up enjoying. 

 

Enjoying a product, and it being a ‘beer’ product are two different things though. Take Lays Beer Cheese Kettle Chips that I bought recently. All those words are good! Beer, Cheese, Kettle, Chip! How could it not be good mashed together? 

Well, they are. But it’s mostly cheese and crunch. You get some gooey cheddar flavor, the crunch of the kettle chip, and maybe just a hint of malt and hops on the back end there? Or perhaps that’s just more cheese.  But that’s not unique to anything, and they’re not particularly beer flavored. They’re just cheesy potatoes, which are awesome. They’re good chips, but there are a lot of good chips, that’s not why I bought them.

I want to be pounded with the beer flavor. I want chips absolutely drenched in rich brown ale flavor. I want a chocolate bar that’s half porter. Gimme a salad dressing that’s been steeped with actual hop cones. 

 

Overall, Lays Beer Cheese Kettle Chips? Pretty good! Just not really a beer snack. Just take a look at the ingredients. Halfway down you get Beer Solids, Barley, corn syrup, hops and yeast. No specifics. 

Next up? These naturally flavored Guinness chips. They proclaim ‘Guinness® Flavor’–We’ll see.

Beer Review:  ‘Bogatsch’ is a great example of a beer that’s simply

Welcome To Botty McBotface’s Weekly Column Of AI Beer Reviews…

First up this week, we have the AI Beer Reviews of Dogfish Head.

Are you sitting comfortably? Okay, in case your desk wasn’t already firmly in the ground you have no business sitting on. We’ve got a brand new beer in town just for your Thanksgiving feast. You better believe that I’m excited. As a guy who enjoys drinking other guys beers, I’ll keep my real hate for the American craft beer industry to myself. But what I do know is that I have over a hundred beers to choose from this year. And I’m not replying to this tweet asking for recommendations. Although, often times I do recommend some of the things I find to the rest of the beer world…

I won’t…at the moment.

Before I change my mind about that, let me quote the drunk boy on the front page of White’s Paycheck this morning:

“Not all creativity is good, but most is terrible. A great deal of creativity, however, is bad. It’s like mixing garlic and bell pepper. It’s a fun and unexpected combination, but it’s not going to win any beauty pageants.”

Okay, that settles it.

 

Beer Name:Criminelle
ABV 7.50
Style: American Pale Ale (APA)
Appearance: 4
Aroma: 3
Palate: 4
Taste: 4.5
Overall: 5
Reviewer: DrJay
Review: Had this on tap at the Pizza Hut on the first of May weekend. Had a nice, soft caramel color with a frothy, crystal clear head that left lots of spongy lacing in my glass. This is a toasted pale ale with a great flavor. Goes down easy, but I am glad I had the opportunity to try this ale. I love it and will revisit.

 

Beer Name:Wolf Dried Caramel Ale
ABV 4.50
Style: American Adjunct Lager
Appearance: 3.5
Aroma: 4
Palate: 4
Taste: 4
Overall: 4
Reviewer: gutshamer
Review: I was lucky enough to sample this beer in a can and was completely blown away by it. This really came as a surprise. It’s almost made me forget about Miller Lite for a moment. I found this to be a fun beer to drink and I will definitely buy again.

 

Beer Name:Brooklyn Winter Ale
ABV 5.00
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Appearance: 4.5
Aroma: 4.5
Palate: 4
Taste: 5
Overall: 3
Reviewer: bleach29
Review: On tap at the Lord Javits. As expected with this beer, the beer was turned to cellar conditioning. The head was thick and foamy and somewhat decent lacing. As for the nose, there was a definite green peppercorniness. Grind of the beer for 3 sips but the beer was consumed in a “hint” manner. ly the nectar of the wild west with a touch of sourness. Light mouthfeel and no real carbonation.

 

Beer Name:Alberts Blauw (Blue)
ABV 11.00
Style: Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Appearance: 5
Aroma: 5
Palate: 5
Taste: 5
Overall: 5
Reviewer: RIsley2933
Review: Poured a very dark amber with a chunk of tan head and lots of rust. No real head and lots of lacing.

Aroma is just plum, brown sugar, caramel, sugar, spices, and a little sourness. Taste is electric.

Tastes of caramel, spice, molasses, dark fruits. A little bit of a silliness in the finish. Now I’m just thrown by the character of this beer. The scent is very enjoyable. Bearing in mind the fact that I’m not a big fan, it’s amazing.

Mouthfeel is medium and floats around the mouth. A good beer for a summertime neighborhood beer. Too orangey to be a regular, but others might enjoy.

Update: Nuff said. Nothing got to me like this beer. Poured a slightly cloudy hued brew into a pot and held at room temperature.

 

note: If you couldn’t tell, this stuff is AI-generated via a machine learning algorithm. The title and the opening blurb were trained on the standard GPT-2 model, with ‘Beer Review:’ and ‘This my weekly column of beer reviews. ‘ given as prompts. The reviews were generated from a fine-tuning of the GPT-2 model with a large sample of Beer Advocate reviews. I selected from the saved samples of these and put this post together. 

Beer Review:  Kim Jong Il’s Favorite Brew Dance that Devil 6.50%

Welcome To Botty McBotface’s Weekly Column Of AI Beer Reviews, a column dedicated to bringing you a fresh and vibrant look into the world of AI beer retail and bar discovery. Every week, we’ve got an AI beer review by a beer reviewer all about the latest developments in this burgeoning field of beer-related technology. If you have any questions or feedback, send us a tweet or an e-mail.

One question that I get asked often, and I’m sure you get asked it too, “So what does this mean for me as a buyer?”

First and foremost, I think it means you can buy whatever beer you want, anywhere that sells you a bottle, can, keg, or cask. You can even put it on tap if you like it. If you’ve ever bought a tank of beer, you’ve already experienced the joys of bar hopping. And the same is true for beers, but in a much more sophisticated way.

 

Beer Name:Brooklyn Glacial Lager
ABV 5.60
Style: German Märzen / Oktoberfestbier
Appearance: 3.5
Aroma: 4
Palate: 4
Taste: 4
Overall: 2.5
Reviewer: Oleridade
Review: Pumped from the bar to the floor at the pale ale concert in Toronto, I was heading for the cold metal door to avoid the crappy rule in Ontario. Luckily the path I took was clean, the line of people I was welcomed was a deep black-and-white. Meanwhile, the beer had a bready scent and a minimal body. Consider the beer had some fruitiness and a carnival mix of high alcohol and low hop character, but the taste, which is distinctly above average as a Märzen in its thickness, was too thin, and had no real bite.

 

Beer Name:La Traviata
ABV 9.75
Style: Saison
Appearance: 3.5
Aroma: 3.5
Palate: 3
Taste: 4
Overall: 3.5
Reviewer: kopan
Review: I got this from the Orval: it was a real eye opener! tasted a bit like a zesty zesty. had a vapor coating coating on the mouth. overall I got this off just a little thin for me…don’t get me wrong, it was a good brew for messaging dinner.

 

Beer Name:Treefruits & Apples
ABV 8.00
Style: Fruit / Vegetable Beer
Appearance: 4
Aroma: 3.5
Palate: 4.5
Taste: 4
Overall: 4
Reviewer: Wolfram821
Review: An All NH Beer at the Met. So much to see and do. Hands down my favorite Rockit… smoosh, kef, pils, scrat, etc. Had this one quite the weekend last week, so don’t spoil the pils. externalToEVA

 

 

note: If you couldn’t tell, this stuff is AI-generated via a machine learning algorithm. The title and the opening blurb were trained on the standard GPT-2 model, with ‘Beer Review:’ and ‘This my weekly column of beer reviews. ‘ given as prompts. The reviews were generated from a fine-tuning of the GPT-2 model with a large sample of Beer Advocate reviews. I selected from the saved samples of these and put this post together. 

Beer Review:  A cool, smokey, and bitter IPA

Welcome To Botty McBotface’s Weekly Column Of AI Beer Reviews. For every robot facing beer challenge, I will be reviewing the beer and reviewing the bot. I’ll also try to make each article as positive as possible. I hope you enjoy reading about the quirks of beer and robots!

This Week’s Beer: Date Night Brewing Falcon International Pale Ale

Madness:

Big Beer has never been thrilled with bots. Sure, there have been a few exceptions, like Bud Light, which has a bot calling your name before you can say it. But most bots that you have come across were designed for the sole purpose of driving people to murder and suicide. Irish breweries, like Guinness and Carlsberg, have been known to make a bot to play Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” on repeat in the pub.

None of these beers were particularly good, but it’s the fun of the idea and the competition that makes the best bots great. American craft breweries are now creating bots that are actually interesting to drink. I’m looking forward to the next beer coming out of Brewery Vivant and The Bruery.

 

Beer Name: Kamath
ABV 5.00
Style: Belgian IPA
Appearance: 4
Aroma: 4
Palate: 4
Taste: 4
Overall: 4
Reviewer: Ralph
Review: Poured from a 12oz. green bottle into a North Face Buffalo Wing glass

A – This beer pours a cloudy, golden light golden has a nice fluffy white head that hangs to the top. The sediment is thick and sticky is left behind. Clear and murky with a medium sized to small head that is sticky and is only a plonk. Thick and sticky.

S – Full on the malt nose of a traditional Belgian stout. Very sweet Belgian yeast, caramel and all thin bready aromas that I can easily pick up in the nose. Some banana and wood from the Belgium yeast. Some apricot undertones also make an appearance. Some sweetmalty tannicness, slightly sweet.

T – A nice taste from what I can detect at first, but then abandoned with the heavy carbonation. Some caramel and candy on the finish, and some left in the aftertaste. The sourness of the sweetness is pretty intense. Some oak and the alcohol comes through on the finish.

M – A little on the thin side, it just lacks a bit in carbonation and bite on the palate.

D – This beer was very drinkable and enjoyable. I enjoyed this beer for most all around.

 

Beer Name:Buffalo Bill’s Adjunct Ale
ABV 10.00
Style: American Double / Imperial IPA
Appearance: 4
Aroma: 4
Palate: 4
Taste: 4.5
Overall: 4
Reviewer: anthonyvandez
Review:

This beer came out of the bottle with a thick head of about an inch, a fair amount of sediment attached.

The smell is light with a floral hop aroma.

The taste is a very light hop flavor with a very well seasoned flavor.

The malt body is medium thick with a medium carbonation.

The drinkability is good can: i expect to be able to find this in the basement of my house. It is very drinkable.

 

Beer Name:KEO 3
ABV 4.80
Style: Gueuze
Appearance: 3.5
Aroma: 2
Palate: 2
Taste: 2.5
Overall: 2.5
Reviewer:JWHL0271
Review: This was a sour, gummy brew.edar malts with a bready quality,but little to no depth,brewing with a hint of dark fruit. Flavors of lemon and sugar wood with an alcohol bite as well as dry yogurt bite. Another sour brew.

 

note: If you couldn’t tell, this stuff is AI-generated via a machine learning algorithm. The title and the opening blurb were trained on the standard GPT-2 model, with ‘Beer Review:’ and ‘This my weekly column of beer reviews. ‘ given as prompts. The reviews were generated from a fine-tuning of the GPT-2 model with a large sample of Beer Advocate reviews. I selected from the saved samples of these and put this post together. 

Beer Review:  Retro Glacier Pale Ale

Welcome To Botty McBotface’s Weekly Column Of AI Beer Reviews!

This week the esteemed Jeff & Jeff are back, with a bunch of beer posts about AI! Jeff actually goes over Top 50, and Top 3 Volume beers, which are also noted on this week’s Top Beer List. A whole bunch of beer reviews, including a review of Black Tap, a review of Solgagerie Shandy, a review of Pliny The Elder, a review of Custard Pie, a review of Wharf Rat, a review of Yellow Submarine, a review of Helios-I, a review of one of Jeff’s favorite Brewer’s Collection beers, and more!

 

Beer Name:Limejuice IPA
ABV 8.00
Style: IPA
Appearance: 4
Aroma: 3.5
Palate: 4
Taste: 4
Overall: 4
Reviewer: littlecomete
Review: The facial frost is fading fast. The orange color is smooth and thin. There is a nice ring of white foam around the edges, but there are definitely some lacing. The nose is a spicy thing. Smells of lemon juice. The taste is citrusy and better than expected. There is definitely some space between the 1.5ish% IPA and the lemon.

 

Beer Name:De Goncourt Monde
ABV 6.00
Style: English Porter
Appearance: 3
Aroma: 3
Palate: 3
Taste: 3
Overall: 3
Reviewer: Gavage
Review: A thoughtless pour from the cocktail ship in Caracas (though the great pilot Admiral Chiano was a bit busy over the water) left me with the impression that this was a porter. Someone give me a UK garden kit.

 

Beer Name:Aninatural
ABV 6.50
Style: American Pale Ale (APA)
Appearance: 4
Aroma: 4.5
Palate: 4.5
Taste: 4
Overall: 4
Reviewer: lmosquito
Review: Served on tap at the Brewdog on the first Saturday of each month at their Yakima, WA break. Immediately greeted by a facial, piney, and dusty pils frosting. Onto a thousand hands of staleness. The head is indescribably thick, and draggy. It leaves a thin film of squishy, lace-covered carbonation. It’s a stretch for me to chase a single sip, but thanks to the body and the power of the head, I can see several. I can just imagine how many I’d have if one had a chance.
Very juicy, and crisp in its gentleness. A very limited tinny body. Cincinnatoid. Absolutely perfect for the holiday season.

 

note: If you couldn’t tell, this stuff is AI-generated via a machine learning algorithm. The title and the opening blurb were trained on the standard GPT-2 model, with ‘Beer Review:’ and ‘This my weekly column of beer reviews. ‘ given as prompts. The reviews were generated from a fine-tuning of the GPT-2 model with a large sample of Beer Advocate reviews. I selected from the saved samples of these and put this post together.