tasting notes

gwen brought over the breakfast beers a few weeks ago
and managed to bring over three i hadn't tried before
way to go gwen!

mt. begbie tall timber ale
mt. begbie bob's your dunkel
dead frog chocolate mint brown ale

i thought perhaps chocolate mint was not going to pair very well with the mexican eggs i was making for breakfast, so we began with the mt. begbie tall timber ale
and i'm glad we did - i'm a fan!
it was a great pairing with eggs, veggie chorizo, goat cheese, hot sauce, guacamole and hash browns!
its an english brown ale finished with kent golding hops and their website says it goes well with red meat and cheddar cheese
to that i can add veggie chorizo and goat cheese!
not too malty, not too hoppy, like goldilocks says, it was juuuuuust right!

then we moved onto the dunkel
which not very surprisingly i didn't like
i mean, i have yet to meet a belgian beer i do like...
so gwen gamely finished that one off while i moved on to the dead frog chocolate mint

it would not have paired well with actual breakfast
but as an after breakfast treat, it was pretty good
i think the underlying brown ale is a good one
i wish though that dead frog was adding flavours that didn't come off so fake
like the mandarin and pepper lime before it, i couldn't drink much of the chocolate mint because after a few swigs the inauthentic flavouring overwhelmed the beer for me
still, it was quite nice as dessert to breakfast!

then, as we had such a good start on the day, we decided to break out my stashed bottle of howe sound's total eclipse of the hops and continue the happy drinks
and what a fabulous way to while away a sunday
i love the total eclipse!
but would i love it as much if it was readily available all year 'round??
i dunno, but i'd love to find out!