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Drinking It All: #4 Anchor Liberty Ale

Drinking It All is a document of my attempt to try every beer in circulation. It's a Herculean and tragic attempt at best. But it's the means, not the end that counts here.

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I got the grading finished yesterday. Hot damn. We're packing up and going to New Orleans for a few days this afternoon. Double hot damn. Since I'm relatively free of work, or at least work I get paid for, I figured it was time to start drinking for the website. So I went out last night with about 10 dollars to get some good beer to post about. I was specifically looking for Red Seal Ale, but the store didn't have it. Instead I picked up some of Anchor's Liberty Ale.

The Liberty Ale, while it isn't called so, tastes like a solid pale ale. It starts off pretty bitter--more bitter than the PA standard, Sierra Nevada's PA--and it also has a noticeable sweetness from the malt. The label doesn't offer much helpful information other than indicating that the beer is dry hopped. I taste the hops a good deal more than I actually smell them, which I'm just fine with. I'll take them either way, or both.

Similar to Sierra Nevada's PA, Liberty Ale is a good introductory PA.  The hoppyness is clearly the main event, but it's not so strong that it'd put off people who aren't nuts about hops. It's an accessible beer that doesn't aim for the lowest common denominator (i.e., Bud Light's ad campaign championing simply, and vaguely, "drinkability"). Liberty Ale's a drinkable beer for those who want more than just an alcohol-delivery medium. Plus, at under $8 a six-pack, it's a damn legal steal.

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Thumbs up. Now that I found a store that consistently keeps it in, I'll be bringing it home more often.

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