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Beer Review: Thomas Creek Brewery LLC., Banana Split Chocolate Stout

Dec 2, 2011 | ,

Ding Points: 60.00 Pour: 60.00, Nose: 60.00, Palate: 60.0, Mouth: 60.00, Global: 60.00 Tasting Notes: $10.99 from Arbor Place Beverage for the 750 mL, (plastic, yuck!) corked, (crappily) caged bottle, that was next to impossible to open as the cheap, shitty cage wire just about disintegrated in my fingers, and fight with the hideous, plastic cork raged for several minutes, finally ending with my victory but not without the help of a lazy fish corkscrew - bullshit! From 'The Atypical Series'....

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Beer Review: Thomas Creek Brewery LLC., Octoberfest Lager

Nov 25, 2011 | ,

Ding Points: 70.50 Pour: 90.00, Nose: 80.00, Palate: 60.00, Mouth: 70.00, Global: 70.00 Tasting Notes: My oh my, Thomas Creek is a strange brewer. On the whole I have found their beers to be largely mediocre, but with their production of the Monday Night Brewing beers, and a beer like Up The Creek, they occasionally do very much better than average. (This is especially surprising when I consider my own usual taste parameters and compare them to a beer like 'Up The Creek'). I wonder where their...

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