A Journey for Fall Beer Leads to Coconuts. Coconuts? – Oskar Blues Death by Coconut

The weather seems to have us frantically jumping back and forth between late summer and mid-to-late fall lately, so a little alcohol is just what the doctor ordered to soothe my sore throat from the dry air and dramatic temperature changes.  (What, your doctor doesn’t prescribe beer? Maybe you need a new doctor.  Just saying.)

Journey for Fall

I really had a hard time choosing a beer this week, what with all the current offerings of barrel-aged this and pumpkin-spiced that. I do appreciate a hearty, high-alcohol, high-flavor fall beer.  But the beer I settled on in my mind was the wonderful brown from Martin City Brewing called Fallback.  The can art showcases leaves falling from a tree in all shades of oranges and yellows and browns, and the beer is a perfect reflection of that.  Perfectly balanced, nutty, toasty, just slightly sweet, with a crisp, clean finish.  If you could drink the aroma of the forest floor in the autumn, this would be it.  Alas, the beer store by my house had no

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