Yards Chocolate Love Stout. English Stout. 6.9% ABV ? IBU.
SMELL: Chocolate, malt.
TASTE: Strong malt and milk chocolate sweetness.
DRINK-ABILITY: An excellent beer with sweet milk chocolate flavor and not bitter. This is a great update to Love Stout by Yards.
RATING: 9 out of 10.
Yards Poor Richard’s Tavern Spruce Ale. A herbed ale. 5% ABV ? IBU.
SMELL: Spruce and malt.
TASTE: Strong malt, sweetness, and spruce.
DRINK-ABILITY: A very good malt sweet beer with strong spruce tone. Easy to drink and delicious.
RATING: 8 out of 10.
Yards Karma Factor. A Belgian IPA. 7.5% ABV ? IBU.
SMELL: Hops.
TASTE: Strong hops, yeast, and light citrus tones.
DRINK-ABILITY: A good strong hop and yeast flavored beer with a little citrus thrown in.
RATING: 7 out of 10.
Yards Olde Bartholomew. An English Barleywine. 10.3% ABV ? IBU.
SMELL: Hops, sugar, alcohol, and dark fruit.
TASTE: Hopping with strong alcohol, with hints of dark fruit.
DRINK-ABILITY: This is a good beer. I wish the strong alcohol in this beer was less apparent in its taste and more with the flavors of dark fruit and citrus.
RATING: 7 out of 10.
Yards Brawler. An English Dark Mild Ale. 4% ABV 12 IBU.
SMELL: Caramel, roasted malt, and sugar
TASTE: Strong sugar and roasted malt flavors with caramel.
DRINK-ABILITY: A really good English ale. This was the first yards beer that I actually enjoyed it was sweet malt and easy to drink. Most of Yards other beers are boring and plain to me this was the first I can rave about of theirs.
RATING: 8 out of 10.
Yards Love Stout. An English Stout. 5% ABV ? IBU
SMELL: Roasted malt with faint chocolate tones.
TASTE: Roasted malt and light chocolate.
DRINK-ABILITY: This beer was everage. I could closely compare it to guiness in the sense that its a light and watery stout.
RATING: 5 out of 10.
Yards General Washington’s Porter. An English Porter. 7% ABV 33 IBU.
SMELL: Roasted malt, coffee, and sugar.
TASTE: Sugar, malt, and chocolate.
DRINK-ABILITY: This is a pretty average porter that goes down easily and is good for sitting back and relaxing.
RATING: 7 out of 10.
