Coconut Porter
This is a good beer, and if given a quieter format for sampling it, i might have caught the subtle overtones of hand toastes [coco]nuts. Other than that it’s a good porter, that drinks easy, but not as easy as your mom. Read more about Maui Brewing Company’s Coconut Porter here.

Big Swell IPA
This one was good. I agree with Scripptard’s assessment. A little light for an IPA, and sweet. But a good beer for a warm afternoon on the porch, with your mom. Read more about Maui Brewing Company’s Big Swell IPA here.

Stay tuned for more from Buckbean Brewing’s Canfest 2010.

-Wolfy

ANNIE’S AMBER ALE – 2009 SILVER Medal, 2004 BRONZE Medal,
World Beer Championship, Chicago, IL.
The first beer produced here, and it’s still a favorite! A smooth, malty amber taste highlighted with caramel notes and just the right amount of hops. Alcohol by volume: 5.5% Now available in 12oz cans on premises and in KS liquor stores: Kansas City metro, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Lansing, Topeka.
Coming soon to MO

I won’t go into the nitty gritty details, but we didn’t like it. The takeaway is that breweries make a choice about whether to go with 12oz cans or 16 oz cans when they set up a canning operation. High Noon chose 12oz. High Noon chose WRONG.

Check back here in the coming weeks for more stops on our around the globe beer tour @ BuckBean’s Canfest 2010.

-W

Narragnasett Lager: According to the website, the Lager is “brewed just right for drinking—crisp and refreshing.” Good thing too, cause that’s what we did with it. Lucky. It didn’t say anything about that on the can. It also didn’t say on the can that it was 5% Alcohol. I guess that’s the way they do it in New England. Around these parts we need to see that info ON THE CAN!

It is unlikely for a person to need to join programs to help alcoholics in the future if he or she is a responsible drinker.

It gets good marks for drinkability and with only 5% alchy, i’d say the sharliedick potential is pretty low. You might drown before you get enough to pass out.

Narragansett Light: The light beer is a refreshing alternative to Bud Light, Coors Light, Pabst Blue Ribon Light, or any other light malt beverage.  The flavors are subtle. They say it has 10 IBUs and 3.8%alcohol by volume. That’s not a lot of alcohol. In fact, when we were drinking this and couldn’t find anything about it on the label i started to think they sent us near beer. Is this how they drink beer in New England? Is there some law about beer not having testicles?

Anyway, We did enjoy the Narragansett beer. It didn’t have as much alcohol as your Hurricane, but it’s worth drinking if you have a bottle of cheep tequila to take up the alcohol slack.

Thanks to Narragansett for sending the beer. We did notice that you brew a Bock and a Porter at your Prividence RI brewery. We’d love to sample those if you can squeeze them into your cans.

-Wolfy

This beer gets tallcan accreditation on a technicality, but this is no tallcan beer. If you like very sweet beers, you may be delighted. You may also be wearing a skirt.

NOTE: The short at the end features a clip from a song by Stanton Moore called Stanton Hits The Bottle. It’s from the album All Kooked Out. It’s one of my favorites from him, though when he comes out with “Stanton Hits The Can” THAT will be my favorite.  -Wolfy

Urban Wilderness is the Sleeping Lady Brewing Company’s entry into the
Pale Ale category. And although it is brewed and canned in Alaska, the
biggest state in the union, the brewers mistakenly put it into a small
can. Somewhere, a moose is weeping.

Photo by Jeff Dow for Buckbean Brewing.

But despite this oversight, the good people at Sleeping Lady have
produced a beer that has a big full-bodied flavor, and rich caramel
color and texture. Like the finest of its pale ale brethren, Urban
Wilderness is hoppy without being overwhelming, with just the right
balance of malt. The graphics on the can are pedestrian, but the head
is two fingers deep, just how your mom likes it.

Recommended use: Drink this beer cool – not super cold — with a
friend wearing a lumberjack outfit. Plan on drinking about three
before you’ll want to switch back over to Oscar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale.

Rating: 6.5/10 on the Tall Can scale.

Notes: When the brewers are ready to man up with a tall can, we’ll
give it a better review. Until then it’s a good beer in an inferior
can.

-Scripptard

The Kilt Lifter Ale from Four Peaks Brewing is a great scottish ale that finally answers the age old question of what’s under a scottsman’s kilt. The beer is tasty and rich. I have no idea if that’s what a scottish ale is supposed to be, usually when you get a scotch ale it comes in a small glass. That translates over to this as it comes in a small can. Since we judge things as a whole package, I have to say that Kilt Lifter Ale has a strong start with a refreshing finish that leaves you unsatisfied just like what’s under a scottsman’s kilt.

-Wolfy

Photo by Jeff Dow for Buckbean Beer

Check out Mammoth Brewing at almost every local restaurant between Bridgeport and Mojave. They’re everywhere. Notably, the Tioga Pass Gas Mart and all the Pizza Factory shops from Mammoth to Independence.

We didn’t find that many real man cans @ canfest, but most of the small canners said they want to grow up at some point and start doing real cans. Mammoth was no exception. With a name that is synonymous with largeness, we’ll hold them to it.

-Wolfy

It is a traditional Belgian-style Double seasoned with coriander and entirely uncommon Thai spices. At first surprising, the floral notes of lemongrass and sharper bite of kaffir lime blend with the deep malt of this double to produce a dangerously drinkable beer.

Not sure Mister Fnygy liked it, but in all seriousness it was pretty good! Not sure I’d drink it along side anything. I like beers like that on their own. But it does come in a tall can.

Photo by Jeff Dow for Canfest09

His reasoning was that it makes it easy to gage the mass of a can of beer. Though this is pure folly. If the cans contained 16 fl Ounces of deionized water then the can/contents combination would clearly weigh more than a pound. Ad in the rest of the cans and the plastic thing that ties the together and the box, and your shipping weight is nigh on incalculable. Not to mention the fact that alcohol weighs less than water and beer with lemon grass, keffir lime and coriander weighs significantly MORE than water.

Pound for pound though, Siamese Twin Ale is significantly more refreshing than Water…

-M

After Canfest, we explored the casino and ended up on the dance floor along side some very impressive line dancers. Who knows why we wanted to avoid Reno, it was one of the funnest nights of the trip! Read More

As a cycle tourer, when the perfect form of transportation and the perfect beer container come together it truly is a transcendent event…

-Wolfy

-Wolfy