January Beer of the Month Club Review - Amazing Clubs

Hey all you craft beer drinkers! It's that time again! What time? New Beer of the Month from Amazing Clubs time! Yeah... we know, it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. But the beer... The beer tastes good. So let's get to it!

This month, we've got beer from Pennsylvania Brewing Company and the Stone Cat line from Mercury Brewing Company. Pennsylvania Brewing Co. sends their Penn Weizen and Penn Gold, while Mercury has their Stone Cat ESB and Stone Cat Blonde Ale. On a side note, Mercury Brewing Company is quite local to DrinkCraftBeer.com. They're just about a half hour away in Ipswich, MA. They brew some delicious beers, so we're stoked to get reacquainted with these local brews. With that in mind, let's get to the beer!

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Pennsylvania Brewing Company Penn Gold

Appearance: This beer pours with a white thick head and a straw pale, clear body.

Smell: Clean and crisp with a hint of biscuity malt.

Taste: This helles lager is clean and crisp, just as it should be. If Budweiser was done very well, it would taste like this. This is a perfect lawn mower beer for a hot summer day. Dry, crisp and refreshing. Penn Gold would be GREAT from a can. This is a good camping or boating beer. We would have rather been sent this beer in the summer, but it's still a mighty fine beer.

Pennsylvania Brewing Company Penn Weizen

Appearance: Super foamy on the pour! Hazy and muddy straw colored with the yeast making it a bit dark. Puffy white head.

Smell: Wow, it's a hefeweizen! Really strong yeast with predominant clove notes and a little bit of banana. Almost no bubble gum

Taste: It starts pretty crisp and clean with just a little wheat tang. Then, in the mid palatte, the banana really peaks with major wheat flavors and solid tang. Like an Orangatang. Finally, it finishes quite malty. This is quite the winter hefeweizen! This is a solid offering from Pennsylvania Brewing Co.! There's more flavor in here than we can hope to discuss, definitely check this one out for yourself, definitely right on target for style!


 

Stone Cat ESB

Appearance: Reddish-copper and hazy colored. The head is light brown and doesn't appear to be going anywhere.

Smell: Nothing mind blowing, English hops and malt here.

Taste: This is a malt driven beer, but don't be fooled. The 35 IBUs of hops are all in the bittering. There is very little flavor hops involved, so all the flavor you get is malt-based. The hops are just there to bitter this beer, which they definitely do. Decently bitter and some nice English malt flavors. The hop flavor comes out a bit more as it warms. This is another great beer!


Stone Cat Blonde Ale

Appearance: Comes out of the bottle hazy orangey straw colored. A solid white head.

Smell: A little bit of earthy hops in an otherwise pretty clean smelling brew.

Taste: Wow, hoppier than we expected. This is pretty damn delicious! Luckily, it's brewed within an hour of us so we just may start buying it. It's got a decent malt backbone with enough hops to make it refreshingly bitter. Great British hop flavor. This is a really good session beer at 5.2% abv. We know it's not actually a fresh hop beer, but it has a smell and taste very similar to fresh hop beers, just lighter.