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  Frosty 11:41 am on May 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Set adrift in nasty. Widmer Drifter Pale Ale. 

  An hour or so ago, I made a Twitter entry that proclaimed my intention to drink this, given that I had nothing else in the fridge. “In the land of the thirsty, the one starred beer is king” it proclaimed. Well, it turns out that the land of the thirsty is a lawless place. Not even my desire for a beer could get me choke down this swill.

  Hoppy where you don’t want it, tart in the rest, its just some kind of beer experiment gone wrong. Like, the flavors so bad that they decided to overcompensate by adding citrus “flavors”. “Needs more dog” as the saying goes.

  You know, the bottle has this tagline on it. “Brewers of Quality Beers”. Really? My sink doesn’t agree. Don’t get me started on Widmer, whose business lobby makes you pay for little things like tatoos and stickers. Somewhere along the way, local Oregon brewery turned into cash obsessed money machine. And the taste of the beer seems to gone along with it.

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    Swill Jockey 8:05 pm on May 23, 2009 Permalink

    Wholeheartedly agreed.

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  Frosty 4:32 pm on February 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

  Widmer 09 Belgian Ale – Its… Belgian 

  

  To Widmer’s credit, this beer tastes exactly as described. A picture perfect Belgian Ale. It even made the immediate area smeel like Belgian beer. Is it good? If you like Belgians, then yeah.

  Widmer and I have have a had a rocky past, but I will give them credit for this. It’s probably too specific a taste to be able to get *&@!-faced on, but in terms of drinkability and general yumminess, it is probably the best of the Widmer beers out right now.

   
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  Frosty 9:46 pm on November 17, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

  My life with Widmer, in a Brrr. 

  Widmer and I go way back. It began innocently enough with Hefeweizen. Pretty ubiquitous around the west coast, it taught me many years ago that there was beer that was actually good. Drop Top was decent for parties, and then came Snow Plow. When I first moved up to Beervana, I wish just giddy for the thick and tasty Snow Plow during the winters.

  But as time wore on, and I tried more and more beer, I began to notice the flaws in Widmer. The Hefe was just a touch too bland and overdone. The Drop Top was well, not so great for parties anymore, and the Snow Plow tasted like a burned tree. And so, like that girl in college who pasted a “I didn’t really want to break up, I just wanted to scare you into being more serious” note to my apartment door, Widmer and I were done.

  And so it was with Brrr. I wanted to give the local boys another shot, after all, the bottle wrapper was excellent. I poured a glass and drank. At first, it was good. Crisp, a little bite, but tasty. But then I drank more, and the bite continued. With one last swig I tried ot give it a go, and it had just turned undrinkable. I can’t explain exactly what it was. It may as well pasted a note as well, cause I just wasn’t able to take it any more.

  I know I can be a cranky drinker, but this one at least is coroberated by Chris of Ruby McGowan, who caught me in the hall to remark that he too had a quick break up … and that he has a winter ale brewing as we speak.

  So the lesson to take away is this, no matter how fancy her wrapper is, she has to be smooth on the inside. No wait. No matter how fancy her wrapper is, the second time down she’ll start to bite. No wait thats worse…er…dont drink bad beer.

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    Skylark 10:56 pm on November 17, 2008 Permalink

    Watch what you say ’bout my Widmer boys. Hef? Bland? I mean, name a better hefeweizen. Betcha can’t. Of course, it’s winter now and hef doesn’t sound good to me either. Besides, it’s my favorite time of the year (for me at least), IPA season! Drinkin’ a Bridgeport IPA as I type!

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    Frosty 4:42 pm on November 18, 2008 Permalink

    IPA season? Please, its dark and malty season my friend. Raven Mad Imperial Porter, now that’ll warm you up. And don’t claim such loyalty to Widmer…when you are drinking their clear superior as you type the comment

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    Betty 6:54 pm on January 2, 2009 Permalink

    I was surfing around looking for reviews on Brrr since my husband just recently did a review on it as well. And everyone seems to like this one. My husband couldn’t stand it either. Finally ran into someone who didn’t care for it. LOL! Enjoyed your post!

    Hope you can stop by to check out my husbands review.
    http://thejoereview.com/2009/01/02/brew-review-17/

    And keep up the great work.

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  Frosty 9:59 pm on November 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Widmer Snow Plow – “Longing for the way we were” 

  You know those moments where you remember something so fondly from when you were a kid,. You remember how amazing this one experience was. Then you try it later as an adult and find out it was lame, boring or horribly nasty (hello Nesquik “Strawberry” Milk). Sadly, this is exactly what Widmer Snow Plow did to me.

  I can’t remember why it was, but for some reason I had it built up in my head that this beer was this awesomely brewed past lover. I imagined us strolling on the beach together, sharing a good laugh and sipping from each other’s malts.

  But in a scene straight out of a college “post beer goggles” morning wake up, what greeted my lips was something just short of totally nasty. Wha? Where was that beautiful yummy glass of pure joy I remember? All I can guess is that some really big burned tree fell in the vat. Because that can to be the only excuse for something that tasted straight out of the SoCal Wild fires.

  I wanted to give this beer a 3 for the good times I remember us having, but in the immortal words of Bruce Campbell, “Baby…you got real ugly”.