Because it’s doppelbock season, last week I stopped by Binny’s in River North on the way home from work to pick up a bottle of Weihenstephaner Korbinian. (I was already working through three six-packs of Metropolitan Generator, which seemed like enough at the time.) Just a few feet away, I spied something calling itself Dragon Lady Doppelbock—it cost less, it was stronger, and it had an awesomely tacky label. So I bought both.
- Seriously, does it even count as armor at this point?
Dragon Lady is distributed widely in America—its ratings at Beer Advocate and RateBeer come from as far afield as California, Florida, and Delaware—but I can’t find any mentions of it older than spring 2013. Super Brew 15, by comparison, has had since at least early 2011 to accumulate online invective.
So! That’s encouraging. How about the taste?
One of these days I’ll find some cheap eastern European rocket fuel that isn’t too nasty to recommend in good conscience, and then you’ll all thank me. But I’d better not get some weird brain cancer from looking.
Oh, fuck it.
