Jailhouse Brewing-O'Dempsey's Community Service

My buddy Ed brought me back a bottle the Jailhouse Brewing-O’Dempsey’s collaboration Community Service, a wee heavy, from Atlanta. The beer pours a dark amber color with a bubbly beige colored head that doesn’t linger very long. The aroma consists of caramel, toffee, light toasted malts, and a bit of hidden smoke. The taste is smooth and very sweet with plenty of caramel and toffee on the front end. A bit of toasted malt flavor comes out before a spicy black pepper and grassy hop finish hits the back of the mouth and warms the throat a little bit with some alcohol. The alcohol content is 9.0% ABV. This was a rather good wee heavy, although it did err on the sweet side of the palate. However, the hops combined with the alcohol to spice up the finish.

Jailhouse Brewing Conjugal Visit Red Ale

My buddy Ed picked me up a bottle of Jailhouse Brewing Conjugal Visit Red Ale while in Atlanta. The beer pours a dark red color with a frothy off-white colored head with some lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of caramel, toasted malts, and a hint of grassy hops. The taste is dry and lightly bitter with some lemon, but it is all built upon a solid caramel and toffee base. There are some toasted malts that really shine in the background, and the finish brings out some pepper. The after taste leaves a grassy hop flavor that will stay on the tongue for a while. The alcohol content is 6.0% ABV. This was a solid red ale with a great bitter lemon and grassy hop flavor. I really enjoyed the base of the beer, but the bitterness is what makes the beer.

Jailhouse Brewing Slammer Wheat

As part of a trade with Lance Martin (Beers of the Night) and Alfred Hugh Leonard III I received a bottle of Jailhouse Brewing Slammer Wheat. The beer pours a pale golden color with a foamy white head that leaves a hint of lacing of the glass. The aroma is wheat, lemon, and grassy hops. The taste is smooth and sweet with lemon, honey, grass, wheat, and slight pepper. The beer dries a little bit on the finish and leaves a creamy taste that lingers. The alcohol content is 5.0% ABV. I enjoyed the honey sweetness in this beer that I feel filled the watery void left by most wheat beers.

Jailhouse Brewing Reprieve French-style Ale

Another bottle I received in a trade with Lance Martin (Beers of the Night) and Alfred Hugh Leonard III was Jailhouse Brewing Reprieve French-style Ale. The beer pours a straw yellow color with a thin filmy white head. The aroma consists of lemon grass, earthy notes, hay, cream, and has some floral hops as well. The mouth feel is very carbonated with the taste consisting of lemon, hay,grass, and lemon. It has somewhat of a barnyard flavor to it before bits of cream come out on the finish. The alcohol content is 6.0% ABV. The Reprieve is a delicious beer that is light on the tongue, prefect for drinking in the summertime months.

Jailhouse Brewing Breakout Stout

In a trade with Lance Martin (Beers of the Night) and Alfred Hugh Leonard III, I received a bottle of Jailhouse Brewing Breakout Stout. The beer pours a black color with a finger-sized frothy tan head. The aroma consists of mocha, toasted malts, coffee, dark chocolate, and a smoothing vanilla accent. The taste is dry and chocolaty with lots of coffee and mocha on the front end. There is some tobacco that mixes up the flavor, but the focus is on the tasted malts. Vanilla sweetens up the finish, which is quite enjoyable. The alcohol content is 7.8% ABV. While I typically am not a fan of tobacco flavoring in a beer, it complimented all of the other flavors well in the Breakout Stout and I really enjoyed drinking this one.

Jailhouse Brewing Mugshot IPA

I received a bottle of Jailhouse Brewing Mugshot IPA as part of a beer trade with Lance Martin (Beers of the Night) and Alfred Hugh Leonard III. The beer pours a golden color with an extremely lofty and frothy white head. The aroma consists of lemon, pine, caramel, tangerine, and orange. The taste is rather smooth at first with caramel before a drier toasted toffee flavor kicks in on the tongue. Lemon, tangerine, pine, and pepper come out on the finish of this beer and bitter the tongue a bit. The alcohol content is 6.7% ABV. This was a well done IPA that I could drink all of the time if it was available in Pennsylvania, and I recommend trying it.

Jailhouse Brewing Midnight Special India-style Black Ale

As part of a beer trade with Lance Martin (Beers of the Night) and Alfred Hugh Leonard III, I received a bottle of Jailhouse Brewing Midnight Special India-style Black Ale. The beer pours a black color with a lofty and frothy tan head that leaves lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of lemon, pine, chocolate, toasted malts, and pepper. The taste is really smooth and chocolaty at first with a nice creamy mouth feel. There are some mocha, chocolate liquor accent, and bits of coffee. On the finish, pine, pepper, and lemon dry the mouth and the after taste is warming from the alcohol, which is 10.0% ABV. This is one of the finest Black IPAs /Black Ales/Cascadian Dark Ales that I have had. The mouth feel is so creamy and chocolaty with plenty of sweet and bitter flavors all wrapped into one.