Party Beer!
by maoglone
This beer review has been two weeks coming. This tells you how far in advance I’ve been drinking the beers I review. Le Wif and I went to a one-year-anniversary party a couple Saturdays ago. It was our first night out without Le Bebe. We needed it.
The party was a good bit more classy than what I’m typically used to. There was a load of good, snobby beer there–Bell’s Porter, Abita, and a sampler of Great Lakes beers. I pulled out a Dortmunder Gold Lager, which I’d never had before.
It’s a good, solid beer, a full-flavored pilsner with not too much bite, not an awful lot of finish, but plenty of taste. It’s basically a high-class version of what we all know to be “beer.” This kind of beer would be good for parties–if you want to seem like you’re high-class but don’t want to get wrapped up in super-heavy beers, Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold Lager is a pretty solid place to start. It tastes good, but it’s not overpowering, the ABV isn’t sky-high like a lot of other snooty beers, and it’s generally unassuming. On a scale of crap to superb? Very good.
The party, by the way, was a great time. Got to talk a lot about beer with some guys I don’t often see–some really smart dudes who know their beer factoids. There was lots of cheese, too, and I found it difficult to pull myself away from that end of the room. Because I like cheese way, way too much. The point of the evening, though, was to say hi to Luke and Haley (did I spell that correctly?). I’m probably not classy enough to fully understand the whole one-year-anniversary-party thing, but I’m glad they had it, and I’m glad we were invited. The beer was fantastic.