Cinco de Mayo (Part 2)

While the Whole Foods down the street has been pretty good to me in terms of my beer purchases, it also poses a major problem.  Namely, you have to read the hell out of the labels if you don't want to sit in line at the register for a beer that winds up being much more expensive than you thought.

I can't find my camera, this is not Bohemia

Back in November, Phin and I went to Whole Foods because he saw a 6-pack of Bohemia for 4.99.  We had no idea what Bohemia was at the time, as we were really just starting to get into beer, but we hadn't heard of it being a notoriously bad beer, so we decided to give it a shot.

We grabbed it and went to the cash register, where the cashier told us we owed over 7 dollars.  Turns out the 4.99 beer we thought we found was stocked where some mini-bottles of Corona were supposed to be.  Sadly, it took me about a dozen more incidents like that before I made it a point to look closely at the labels.  Yeah...I can be a slow learner sometimes.

Anyway, a few weeks later I was at Woodmans and found the six pack for 5.99.  It's still not as good as the price we originally thought we had found, but for basically a dollar a bottle, it worked for me.  I brought 3 of the Bohemias back to Milwaukee and we had them with what I'd call homemade "street tacos".

Of all of the Mexican beers I've had, Bohemia is one of my two favorites (the other being Dos Equis Amber, which I'll review shortly).  It goes down easy and tastes pretty good.  While it doesn't have the flavor that a lot of beer reviewers look for, I find it to be pretty solid, with the flavor that it does have being good, unlike a lot of other cheap beers *cough* Tecate*cough cough*.  Add to it the story about how we went about getting it and I'd give it a solid B.

Have you had Bohemia? Do you agree with my take? Let us know in the comments!

"Blog? What blog? The Packers are in the Super Bowl!"

After the NFC Championship game, Phin and I took a trip to Whole Foods Market to find him a beer to celebrate the victory.  While we were there we looked around at the micro selection and found some stuff we're interested in.

On a later trip, I picked up a four-pack of Ale Asylum Tripel Nova, only to find out that the Whole Foods on North and Prospect sucks at correctly placing price tags by its beer (but I'll get to that in a later post).  After finding that the beer cost four dollars more than it was listed at, I went back and found a four pack of Sprecher Abbey Triple. I had looked it up on Beer Advocate and wasn't blown away by it's B- rating, but I figured that I'd still like it as I'm a fan of the style and of Sprecher in general. 

I understand why the people at Beer Advocate didn't like the beer very much, as it's missing a certain kick that most beer snobs probably expect when they're drinking the style.  Nonetheless, I like it a lot.  It's maybe a little too sweet, but I still think it tastes good and masks the alcohol pretty well.

This is a beer I definitely plan on going back to when I'm looking for an easy to drink brew that gives a nice buzz at an affordable price.  I give it a B+.

Have you had Sprecher Abbey Triple?  Do you agree with my take? Let us know in the comments!

Sprecher's take on Abbey Triple 
Abbey Triple on Beer Advocate
Abbey Triple on Rate Beer