Forty Bottles of Ringboree

It's my understanding that the Sam Adams Triple Bock isn't available everywhere. Indeed, it might even be illegal in some states. It's a beer, sort of. It's brewed like a beer, but is 17.5% alcohol. How they accomplish that, I don't know. Perhaps it involves elves in some unspecified way. It has very wine-y overtones, like a big shiraz, perhaps. Lots and lots of chocolate, as you might imagine. It is dark dark dark - almost black - and the texture might turn some people off, since it is slightly gritty, like a unfiltered heffeweissen, and throws a heavy sediment.

All in all, wonderful. 30 bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree. Thanks, Scott, for introducing me to this. Highly recommended.

Note that other folks don't agreee with me. Seems rather pretentious of him to call me a fool for enjoying it, but, hey, I suppose that's his perogative. It is important to warn you that if you like Budweiser, this isn't the beer for you. Of course, if you like Budweiser, chances are you don't like real beer anyway. As far as I can tell from reading lots of other reviews (see Google for a zillion of them) beer drinkers don't like this, but wine and port drinkers do.