Our Tastes-- Coney Island Albino Python

Coney Island's Albino Python is a White Lager brewed with spices. Other than the white phallic albino python that is reaching out for the brunette's labia (lips), the label is nothing special. A beer made with Specialty 2-row, torrified wheat (looks like Sugar Smacks), Weyermann Acidulated, Flaked oats and Caramel Pils. Add to it Warrior, Saaz and Summit then spice it up with ginger, sweet fennel and orange peel. Its your typical cloudy white ale on the pour with flat head and nose of fermented wheat protein. Aftertaste gives the usual wheatie. 6%abv, it was good.

Our Tastes-- Coney Island Freaktoberfest

#2 in the Coney Island taste series is Freaktoberfest. If the label isn't scary enough the cloudy blood red Kool-Aid that it pours does. Oh, and the head matches a wonderful lung foaming pink. Made with Canadian pale ale and wheat malts, German Munich and Vienna malts and British Caramel malts then bittered with Warrior, Cascade, Willamette, Hallertau and Northern Brewer. I'm not sure that there is a taste that can describe this brew. It's definitely bitter and there is a hop aroma there but you can kiss my Casper the ghost if I know what it is. 6.66%abv.

Our Tastes-- Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale

I picked some of these bad boys up at GOP, to cover one that Junk had gotten me previously and thought we would give them a spin tonight. Weyer's Imperial Pumpkin Ale pours a medium brown copper and flattening head. The aroma is fresh pumpkin meat, cinnamon and touches of vanilla. Made with cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamon and cloves; each none of these is tastefully distinctive when rolled around the mouth. This is a definite seasonal keeper. 8%abv.

Our Tastes-- Terrapin Sunray Wheat

Initially pouring an extremely pale clear "mead" color then as I swirled the base went to a cloudy flat headed bev, Sunray, yields the nose of a yeasty slight honey. The taste leaves behind a slight hint of the Tupelo honey from the Savannah Bee Company. "It’s inviting banana/sweet clove like aroma gives way to a pleasant, clean finish with a hint of tartness." Only available in the "All The Hits" variety 12-pack until this spring. Not sure what the abv is but I'd have this only if I haven't had it before. Not the best Terrapin I've had.

Our Tastes-- Dogfish Head Raison D'Extra

Keeping in mind I just had D'Etre, D'Extra is posted to be a doubling if you will of its predecessor. Not real sure where the label comes from but I'll research for personal gratification. Looks like Hank Sr. It pours several shades darker than Etre and cloudy as well. What head was here initially in my porter glass has long gone in the time it has taken me to type this. Aroma is still the raisin with slight smoky hints then the taste...the "doubling" of everything explodes in your mouth like TNT (trinitrotoluene, I gave this word to win Hangman when I was 5 at Happy Time Kiddie Land, my childcare place). These 2 beers are great vertical beers to try for both a novice and brewmaster. All the elements are there but so different in concentration. I'll have to remember this taster for differences in imperials for instance or "extreme" beers (pale ale vs IPA). From what I have read this is the same but pumped as D'Etre but more raisins (a great sugar and fruit contributor). 18+%abv, 425kcal/12oz. This stuff leaves your ears warm and head queasy after half a glass!! Well worth it. I sense not so much beer that's created but life experiences by Sam C. at DFH. I swear this stuff leaves a thick sugary coat on your tongue.

Our Tastes-- Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre

You're supposed to have Raison D'Etre ("reason for being") in a goblet but my current goblets aren't "beer clean" so I went with a port glass that I recently bought. It pours a nice dark tea color with a flattening white foamy head. The raisin note plus malt aroma and a smacking of alcohol has made this brew an acquired taste for me. When I first had this beer, I thought it was as bland as unsweetened tea, but has become a regular in the beer fridge. The Belgian beet sugars remind me of Ménage à Frank (nice when you can reference your own brew when tasting a micro form someone else) and the green raisins are very apparent. 8%abv and 220kcal/120z. This puts me about half way through the DFHs that I'll be trying.

Our Tastes-- Duck Rabbit Porter

Duck-Rabbit Porter is my next venture and I'll admit it carries a certain darkness (tis the season). OK, honestly my head bows to it as I pour this beautiful brown libation. To look at this deep tulip fresh with a brew that has a head that looks as a still fermenting beer. It is amazing how the slightly brown head looks so much like actively creating top fermenting yeast. Almost like one of those therapeutic mattresses, a little bit of a stretch. I swear it looks like a loofa its so tight with a marsh-mellow-over-the-campfire lattice that clings with each sip.There is no other sweet porter that matters to me now! A great initial mouth fullness and mutation to a heavily roasted coffee chocolate. So much so you breath it out after tasting. not sure what grains are used, hops or abv, but right now Duck Rabbit is the "Dark Beer Specialist" that they proclaim to be.