Rock Bottom Brewery

I’ve been here for two hours and I’m in love. Liberals, arts, beer, sports - what a place.

1st Stop - Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Denver. I went with the sampler. $4.95 for 6 different brews. Not too shabby.

Bottoms Up Kolsch - Pretty standard Kolsch. Not one of my favorite styles. Really just tastes like a Bud, MGD or most other macro brewed lagers. A 3 or 4.

Buffalo Gold - Premium Golden lager. This one is pretty tasty. Mild amount of hops but quite a bit of flavor. A solid 6.

16th St. Wheat - Standard wheat as well. Very cloudy, orange appearance.

Red Rocks Red - Irish Red Ale.  The description keeps talking about hops, but I’m not tasting a whole lot here. Pretty typical red but not a bad beer. In the brewery, it says 3rd best Irish Red in the world. Hmmm. Maybe I’m just not fond of Irish Reds, but this doesn’t taste much different than any others I’ve had. 5/10.

Molly’s Titanic Brown Ale -My favorite of the sampler so far. Extremely malty brown. Malt really overpowers the hops. This beer won a Gold medal at the 2006 GABF. 7/10

Falcon Pale Ale - Description says IPA but I’m going to says it’s a Pale Ale. It’s a good offering. I enjoyed it as much as the brown, but I love Pales. The brown is a better quality of brown than this is a pale though. If this were available in sixers, I’d definitely buy a few here and there. 7/10

Dank Barrel Aged IPA - Aged in a Wild Turkey Whiskey barrel. Very peculiar smell and taste with this one. Had a rum smell. I expected a hop explosion, but it really wasn’t that powerful. No more than a regular IPA for me. It had 11.2% ABV. 7/10