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Bottle/Tap: Bottle

Once in a while I like to pick a beer based on the name and give it a try.  Since I had no idea what sorghum was, I picked up a bottle and did some research.  Sorghum is a grain that is raised in warmer climates, like China and other parts of the Pacific; it is a cousin to the sugar cane family.  Texas A&M is using sorghum as a basis for producing clean ethanol products.  I wonder if I’ll be able to crack open a bottle of this for my gas tank one day; that would be cool.

This beer is made with four ingredients: water, sorghum, hops and yeast, nothing else.  No wheat, barley, rye, oats- nada.  I was shocked and decided to give it a pour and taste.  It has a nice copper color in the glass and no real aroma, not one that I noticed.  I had a taste and found that it wasn’t bitter, but it did have an odd flavor to it.  I was intrigued and kept drinking to find the beer was pretty smooth and unique.

Since there are only a few ingredients in this beer, you can see why it isn’t very exciting.  Although, it is exciting that there are so few pieces to the puzzle, and such a smooth taste is the result.  It wasn’t a very strong beer, and I wished that I had an extra to try and get more flavor or something.  I wasn’t sure what to expect when I opened the bottle and poured it, but I got a nice surprise of a beer that wasn’t overpowering or watery and lame.  I’ll have to look into Bard’s a little more to see if they put other beers, but this gets my seal of approval.