A beer man's best friend? - Buffalo, NY Beer, Home Brew & Food ...

Abita is a New-Orleans-area craft brewery that has been in business since 1986. Despite their 25-year history, I am relatively unacquainted with Abita?s offerings, since most of their beers that you can actually find in Buffalo are fruit beers (Purple Haze, Strawberry Harvest) and I?m not huge on fruit beers.

The other commonly found Abita beer, at least in Western New York, is Turbodog. I picked up a lone bottle of this tasty elixir at my local Wegmans store as part of a Craft Your Own 6-pack dealio ($9.99 for 6 beers of your choice, many of the options being local/regional brews). The bottle describes Turbodog as ?a dark brown ale brewed with Willamette hops and a combination of pale, crystal and chocolate malts.? Sounds good to me, right?

Right indeed. ?Far from the light brown of a commercial brown ale like Newcastle (which I love, but if you expect every brown ale you drink to taste like that beer, you?re in for some major disappointments?), this beer pours a very dark, semi-transparent brown with a silky, tannish head that lasts nicely as you savor the flavor. The smell definitely lends some credence to the label?s claims of chocolate and dark caramel malts (not that I didn?t believe the label), in a very pleasant way. The aroma is a great balance of chocolaty-roasted sweetness and light hop aroma.

Turbodog has a pleasant, silky mouthfeel, thanks to the moderate, non-offensive amount of carbonation. The taste of the beer is richly chocolaty, yet balanced very nicely with a subtle hoppy finish. Still, despite the sweet chocolate/malty flavors of the beer, it goes down easily and isn?t too filling (unless you?re used to drinking Michelob Ultra).

This beer, which rings in at 5.6% abv, is very tasty, and quenched my thirst for dark deliciousness, which is exactly what I?d hoped for.. The lack of aggressive darkness/strength that you?d find in many dark American ales makes it relatively suitable for any type of year. Overall, very nice effort from Abita. Definitely inspired me to give more of their beers a whirl.

Have you tried their other offerings? Let me know what you think!

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Name of beer: Abita Turbodog
Style: Brown Ale
Price: Roughly $1.66 per bottle (part of a hand-picked 6 pack)
Where I purchased it: Wegmans ? Amherst St. in Buffalo
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
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Source: http://buffalobeerandfood.com/abita-turbodog-a-beer-mans-best-friend-awful-i-know/

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