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Michel Couvreur Unpeated Overaged, 51%

Vom französischen Wein-Händler und Whisky-Blender Michel Couvreur, der die aus Schottland importierten Whiskies in seinen uralten Weinkellern im Burgund in teils nicht weniger alten Wein- und  Sherry-Fässern seit vielen Jahrzehnten lagert, hatte ich schon ein paar Kreationen probiert. Oft handelt es sich um stark limitierte Abfüllungen, die es dann oft exklusiv bei zwei deutschen Whiskyhändlern…

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Beer 195 Mountain Goat Hightail Ale

Everything I say here must be taken with a grain of salt. Much to my chagrin, I discovered a few days after purchasing that my bottle of Hightail Ale was actually outside its "best before" range as defined by Mountain Goat. Because of the beer originating in Australia and the way dates are formatted internationally and domestically, I am not sure if this beer is a few weeks out of date or a few months. Suffice it to say: Check your beers before purchasing them.

The beer is sweet with a bit of malts. The beer has a discrete not hop flavor, but simply a slight bitter flavor. Then throughout the whole beer is a tart, sour fermented flavor that I can only assume is the result of my "overaged" beer. A little frustrating.