Buffalo Bills Alimony Ale

Brewed by Buffalo Bills Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Hayward, California USA

I found this one at Root Cellar in Cincinnati. It must be several years old (I am assuming 8 since I last saw it in Ohio). Jet black with just the slightest hint of red at the edges with a thin, fat-bubbled, brown head. Aroma is alot of dry, bakers chocolate, caramel, and licorice with some toasted, malted milk. This is still holding up even after all of these years. The label is slightly faded but the juice is still good. The hops are still there though and this has a great smack of bitterness on the tongue.

Thanks to hopdog... Appears a dark murkey brown with a scattered tan lace. Looks like a porter to me. Smell is of roasted nuts, muddled hops, maple, cocoa, bitter sweetness, and prunes. Taste is sweet, perhaps too sweet, with some dying hops, along with a tad bit of sour maple. Mouthfeel is sugary sweet with syrupy maple and some fizzy funk. Drinkability...a bit past it’s prime but an experience.

IPA... right. Pours deep, dark brown with thin tan head. earthy, worm, sween anus aroma. Caramel, cocoa, sweet maple sugar, coffee bean flavor. Smooth palate.

Not sure how old this bottle is. Poured like no other IPA I’ve seen; dark, dark brown (almost black) with a small sized off white head. Earthy and dirty aroma with roasted nuts. Almost reminded me of freshly dug up earthworms. Tastes of caramel, chocolate, and maple with a medium sweetness to it.

Thanks to Hopdog. Pours a dark brown with a small tan lacing head. Surprised by the appearance of this "IPA". Aroma is an earthy, licorice, sweet caramel with some nuts thrown in. Flavor is a bit roasty. I’m really not sure how this is an IPA. Malty with maybe a slight bitterness, cocoa with slight coffee.

Tasted at the 2005 Bistro IPA festival. Orange gold color, slightly hazy. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is citrus and fruity. A medium bodied IPA. Malts are fruity and sweet. Hops are grapefruit and piney. Medium bitter IPA. Nice balance. This used to be marketed as the ‘bitterest beer in America’, at a whopping 75 IBU’s my how things have changed. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

The Bitterest Beer in America.......maybe when they first started making it...Jeff brews outstanding Ales...much, much better at Buffalo Bills Brewpub than in the bottle, which is made by Portland under contract.

Citrus hops aroma are leaping from the bottle before I've poured, a copper beer, with a nice firm, billowy long lasting custard head. Strong hops to start, a very mellow after taste. A little unbalanced, but an amazing mouthfeel! Interesting little beer.