Oct
22
2007
Butternuts Porkslap Farmhouse Ale
Posted on 06:40, October 22nd, 2007 by Ron
Octoberfest 2007 has come and gone and we sampled many, many, different types of beers. There were so many good beers, I can’t even begin to attempt to pick out my favorite. However, there was one that stood out… unfortunately, it stood out in a bad way.
Butternuts Porkslap Pale Ale had one of the funkiest tastes I have ever tasted. First off, it is barely a pale ale, but I don’t know how to classify it other than a specialty ale.
Butternuts tells us…it a new interpretation if the English Pale Ale with a hint of fresh ginger spices
balanced, not overly bitter, easy to drink and incredibly refreshing
it pours orange and crystal clear with a frothy white head
I don’t know what the taste was, but it was funky; a bad funk. Perhaps it was a bad batch. Mine did not pour clear and had a weak head of foam supporting the “bad batch” theory. I didn’t taste ginger, unless what I did taste was supposed to be a hint of ginger. It is unfortunate.
My local beverage center now has a mixed twelve pack Butternut beers on the shelf — but I doubt I’m going try it even if this was a bad batch; consistency is just as important as taste. It is a factor of quality. I stopped buying the Saratoga Lager for the same reason.
Leave it to marketing and a cheap price that got me to taste it in the first place, but once bitten, twice shy.
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I’ve had some from a “bad batch” before. At least that’s what I thought it was. Strange…I wonder what the problem was.
Which makes me question, is it fair to review a beer that may have been from a bad batch?
I think it isn’t really fair unless you have tasted at least a few samples from presumably different batches, but, that just isn’t always practical.
Noting that it is the first and only time is a good idea. Then the reader can draw their own conclusions.
That’s a tough one.
Given that we buy our own beer, rather than have it sent to us by the brewer, makes it infinitely more likely that we would get a bad batch. (The brewery would make sure to send their best batch if they’re looking for a review.)
Sometimes you can rely on the reputation of the brewer. Last year when I had that bad batch of Flying Dog Dogtoberfest, I was pretty sure it was not what it was supposed to be. I’ve had, and enjoyed, lots of other Flying Dog beers, plus it’s brewed not 15 miles up the road.
Of course, I don’t know anything about Butternuts.
However, it appears that a bunch of other people agree with Ron’s assessment.
http://ratebeer.com/Beer/butternuts-porkslap-pale-ale/59676/
People on BeerAdvocate like it better, though.
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13302/28751
yeah I googled it a bit too. Reviews seem to be rather mixed… sounds a lot more about quality control when you see this happen. Of course the person who compared it to Bass Ale had to be out of their mind. I’ve had a Bass Ale and you sir, are no Bass Ale.
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