Request Day!!!!:
Greetings all and welcome to our reader request day!  Today is a special day where I, your beloved beer reviewer, listen to the masses and pick out two of the beers y’all are clamoring for my two cents on.  So today we look at two beers: Coors Batch 19 and Pinkus Organic Hefe-Weizen.  Both beer’s are new to me at this point so this is a new review for not only me but for y’all too.  So lets get started shall we?

Coors Batch 19:
A “Pre-Prohibition Style Lager” this brew is- in my mind- Coors’ answer to Bud Light Platinum and I think it does a great job not only introducing a new beer to the market but a beer with a story.  What story you ask?  Batch 19 is the same formula that Coors used before the Volstead Act and once the act was overturned and the repeal of the 18th amendment happened, Coors was already on to concentrating on their Banquet beer.  So knowing that little history lesson, how does it taste? Well Batch 19 is a nice lager with a dark shade of blonde (does that even make sense???) that pours with a bright white head and a nose of malts and hops.   The beers taste is similar to that of a lager but with a “rough edge” of hops, raw malts, and caramel and a slight aftertaste of hops.  This is a pretty good beer, one that surprised the hell out of me and if you combine it with a whiskey back…well, let’s just say you’ll feel tough enough to go hunt bears with your bear hands ala Wolverine.  By itself, not bad, but if you’re willing to throw in a shot of whiskey, prepare for a really great beer for a great night out or in.  Oh, and if you hunt bears with your bear hands, it does help to be a mutant like Wolverine plus the addition of claws and unbreakable bones.  I say stick with stalking your dog(s) around the house for a night.

Pinkus Organic Hefe-Weizeen:
I’ll be the first to admit that this style of beer has fallen out of my favor this year.  In my adventures this summer in the land of wheat beers, I discovered that there isn’t much too much to differentiate one Hefe from another and they all…blend…together.  That being said, I was skeptical of trying a beer that was supposedly tasting “like magic and happy unicorns n shit” but how can you not taste a beer that has that supposed taste profile?  Well folks, here is the honest answer: It is pretty tasty.  The beer pours the typical hazy golden color with a thin stark white head of foam, no lacing, and a nose of bananas, wheat and malts.  The beer tastes like a typical wheat beer but just toned down enough to let the flavors compliment each other enough to be enjoyable and not run-of-the-mill.  Okay I have (like some others I know) sworn off wheat beers for the most part but this beer and a few others, are the chosen few that I will drink if available and, once this little beer odyssey is done, probably buy to stock the beer fridge with.  Maybe not a beer that tastes like “happy” or “unicorns” but still a damn tasty beer that, once summer comes along, will see some playing time.