The adventure continues!

Bricktown Brewery, as I mentioned, has beer from other places so while we were there I tried a beer from Prairie Artisan Ales from Tulsa, OK. Had to stick with the Oklahoma beers! I’m a huge fan of Saison/Farmhouse Ales because they always have a unique taste. Pretty boring name, but I got Standard.

Just by looking at the pour I could tell the carbonation would be a little more than I like, but it was still foamy on top. The smell was citrus and yeasty. The taste kind of was a little more hoppy than I would expect, but got a salty lime taste up front, then the yeast came in, and finished with the hops. Carbonation made it seem like a soda with lime. So not super overwhelming, which I was very pleased about.

My sister, Paige and her husband, Cody took Kurt and I to a place called Oak and Ore near downtown Oklahoma City. This is a charming “boutique beer hall” with 36 different craft beers. There is quite a good selection of Oklahoma beer, lucky me! Sadly I slacked on the pictures, nor did any of us get food there.

Paige and I figured out that everything listed in a color chalk was from Oklahoma and the white were other states craft beer. There are some games that can be played since they have a game night once a week. We got down on some UNO!

I was feeling a sour for some reason, which I would think since it was so cold I would go dark and strong. February in Oklahoma is a lot different than Phoenix weather wise.

This lovely sour is from 405 Brewing Company out of Norman, Oklahoma, but started as a Belgian pale-style wort from Prairie Artisan Ales. This has that perfect sour smell that makes your mouth water and nose burn a little bit, but has a slight sweet smell of berries. Upon first taste I could really taste the raspberries and blackberries like they would taste in a wine and then the sour just sits on the tongue. There is a pretty high alcohol content, but not boozy like a bourbon barrel aged beer, more a wine alcohol content taste. Overrall an amazing sour!

I wasn’t feeling in a decision making mood so had my sister pick the next beer for me. Now she has no idea of craft beer so for sure just got a random one.

I like her style though, 12.8% is a good jump from 8% and sticking with the barrel aged beers. This was another beer from COOP Ale Works. Smells like cherries, I was in sheer shock. In defense of the beer, I should have reminded my sister I am not a fan of cherry flavored things, but I went with it anyways. The cherry flavor is very strong, but it’s more on the sweeter side of maraschino cherries. This is the booziest fruit beer I’ve had, but has a medicinal taste.

Someone on twitter said that a beer tasted medicinal and I was super confused so I asked what they meant. I was told when I tasted a beer like that I would know and that was no joke. This reminded me of cough syrup. Again, shame on me for getting something I knew there wouldbe a high chance of me disliking but no waste here I drank every last drop.

For food we went to Empire Pizza next door and luckily they had craft beer as well, so I could continue my adventure. Pizza is not exactly apart of my lifestyle of food choices so I just drank, but the other three really enjoyed the pizza. They were pretty unique different pizza options.

Got another beer from COOP. Really wish we could have gone there. The Native Amber had that really pretty caramel color! The smell was sweet and a hint of hops. I got the sweet caramel and malts taste at first, then a bready taste, and the hops come in and round out the beer so there isn’t a sugar taste left in the mouth. This is exactly what I look for in an amber, that good blend of both malts and hops.

This ends the Oklahoma beer. I was not disappointed and am excited for my next visit to try more!