Sam Smithy

A Quick Intro

There is only one thing beer is good for, gaining more confidence in approaching the ladies... or men. I won't judge. But I will challenge the great notion of beer being only for drunken, fat men with money to spend on suppressing their woe's. Can't the average Joe enjoy some funky beers while still appreciating the diversity in the beer universe? I promise I won't start off like this again. Maybe.

With this in mind should we not start classy? Let your hair become combed over and pull up those blue jeans, we've got to live the high life! Without further adue, the first Beerview. So why not pick the most old (some of us might prefer the word "oldest") cheap and fancy looking beer to start with our search for beer snobbery, Samuel Smith's India Ale. Ah, fuck. It's English? What am I doing!

Samuel Smith's India Ale
IPA
5% ABV

View from Above

Chilled, and served in my new pint glass, I could see that she pours like a (insert funny simile here). Bubbly goodness, and for a beer snob this poor pour was down in the gutters. At least we know she's carbonated, jeeeeeezzzzz- The look is goldenly golden. A bronze in my book, with a bad batch of urine. Take a gander at the images you lazy son of a...

Taste

Now comes the real point of this whole writing, getting drunk, I mean taste. She got a smell if you're into that but that's not why I come here. The drink is sharp and crisp. A hoppy crisp with a tingle of the bubbly-stuff upon the tongue when all the gold goes down. All the while a sense of sweetness, which rounds her out. It's this sugary sprinkle (not tinkle) which gives it the pleasant smell where the crisp IPA-like hop eludes the drunker, I mean drinker.

Pretend-Pretentious Conclusion

Drink this wanker! The crew at Samuel Smith know something about a refreshing, crisp IPA with just enough "floral" as not to sweeten the shit out of a beer. Yet she is not weighted down by a heavy flavor and hops to make it so bitter and crisp to drink just one. And by one I am referring to it's 19oz ("18.7oz") volume. This is what I like. Dealwithit.

The flavor is about as sugary as a Budweiser (maybe even less?) yet with more weight, like a Sam Adams and has sharp edges similar to a cool Heineken. Fuck warm beer, sorry England. I'm sure there's more to type of (like the goddamn stories printed all over this bottle) but I'm lazy and you just want to drink... Cheers.

Suggested Listening

Mokaad - Booty EP
Soul, Funk
And how can you say no to a Funk Album cover like this?



Please stay funky.