Jack Hammer & Ancho Chilli Beers!

It's what day? Saturday? You mean BEER DAY!!

HURRAH! It couldn't have come at a better time. My house is literally seething with gloopy mucus and barking coughs, like some kind of Alien movie set in a dog kennel.

So what better way to take my mind of things than to get half honked on antibiotics, steroids, painkillers and BEER!

Due to the above combination, my taste buds are screwed as is my mental stability. So let's go!

First up.

Well, flying straight in from Brewdog we have Jack Hammer. A subtle name for an IPA that promises to be anything but. The tagline claims it to be a Ruthless India Pale Ale.

It sure has the strength for it. 7.2% Woooeee!! Pop this bad boy open!

Well look at that, it pours well. A nice little amber gold. Tad cloudy and whimsical. Like it fancies a dance in my underpants.

Perhaps me and this lady will get on quite well. Come milady. Dance for me in my mouth!

Oh mother of sweet jings!! Brewdog??!?! Why? Why? Does anyone drink this bitter slop? Is this a joke beer??

Let me gather my thoughts... It's very bitter. For me, not in a good way. It's like licking a cat's litter tray. Well, one can assume. Oh man, the aftertaste, the bitter, too bitter not nice at all aftertaste. It won't go away. Sweet heavens, I am going to have to drink some milk or something?!?!? That's it, that is all it tastes of. Bitterness. Like a pl/sql developer's dreams.

2/10 booms... Possibly too much, but I will give it 1 boom for being wet and the other for looking nice.

Moving swiftly on

What's that you say? My favourite brewer... again!! Well sshhh. They are awesome and when I saw that they had yet another chilli based beer I couldn't resist getting it and plonking it in.

It won't have a hard job on it's hands beating the Jack Hammer. Crikey, it could be a fossilised shit in the bottle and still win.

Nice skull label. Not as mad as some of their other labels but I like it.

Looks a fine beast. Nice and dark, like the heart of a scammer that I have roasted over an open fire. Smells quite yeasty.

Come on yeasty boy, down the hatch!

Mmm, quite pleasant. Not a huge amount of body. but slightly bitter, slightly chocolatey. Subtle maltiness. Quite mellow. The chilli is too mellow however. as in undetectable. Nice linger on the aftertaste. A moreish beer for sure.

It is a very pleasant beer, one of which I could drink many of in one go. But it doesn't have the usual wow or pizazz I have come to expect from Tempest Brewing. Still, it is not to say it is bad. It's very nice. Just not a DONKEY KILLER of a beer.

7/10 booms. Not a bad result, but not an amazing one.

Who knows though. With the chest infection and throat lurgy that I have just now these could probably taste as velvety as a honey badgers ear and I would be none the wiser this week.

Still. beer is beer. I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Cheers!