Middle Ages 10th Anniversary Double India Pale Ale

I picked up a bottle of Middle Ages 10th Anniversary Double India Pale Ale from Al's of Hampden. The beer pours a a reddish-orange-amber color with a frothy off-white colored head that sticks to the glass nicely. The aroma consists of caramel, toffee, and pine. The taste is sweet with caramel at first but quickly transitions to a bitter pine hop taste with pepper, earthy, and grassy flavors. On the finish, toasted caramel, dry wood, alcohol, and even more bitter hops come through. The alcohol content is 10.0% ABV. If you are looking for a beer that can do a complete 180 in your mouth, this Double IPA is the one for you. What tantalizes your tongue with sweet caramel at first quickly evaporates and kicks the flavor into another gear of bitterness and toasted caramel. I really enjoyed the beer, but this is not for the faint tongued.

Middle Ages Druid Fluid

I picked up a bottle of Middle Ages Druid Fluid from Al's of Hampden. The beer pours an orange amber color with a foamy off-white head. The aroma consists of sweet malts and a heavy helping of pine hops. The taste is sweet with caramel, toffee and raisin with some orange accents mixed in there as well. The beer finishes with a peppery hop bite that really does wonders for this beer. The alcohol content is 9.5% ABV. This beer is very bubbly and light drinking, unlike some other barleywines out there. However, it was really enjoyable and I liked the added hop accents that really made this a dynamic brew.