Mishawaka Seven Mules Strong Ale

Brewed by Mishawaka Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Mishawaka, Indiana USA

Bottle labeled as Kick Ass Ale - Pours a light golden hue with a ruby center and smallish head. Notes of stale breakfast cereal and soap rise from the glass. Not an great entrance into this ale. Softly carbed. I have to admit that I’ve never tasted anything like this - that is, I don’t know if this is infected, has funky spice additions or was dosed with actual ashes of the corpses of dead lineman from 1924. Whatever it is, it is not agreeable. The best I can come up with is stale cardboard - not oxidation though, just stale nothingness. Just stale and light, no real hops or ABV present either. Wild for such a big beer. Leaves a sticky layer on my tongue. Yuck - down the drain. I hope to Touchdown Jesus that this bottle was astronomically old or wildly infected because it really misses the mark.

Bottled, as "Seven Mules Kick-Ass Ale". Strong, sweet aroma, mildly fruity and sugary and slightly alcoholic. Pale orange pour with a flimsy white head. Strong, malty, and lightly boozy taste, dry with floral and citric hops. Honey and fruit. A little grass and grapefruit, grain, resin, and pine. Medium body, crisp and clearly dangerous. Grainy dry aftertaste. Nice balance struck between hops and malts, and strong efforts from both, but something is seriously out of whack here - why wasn’t this sold in a paper bag?

This draft brew from the brewery poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a slightly hazy orange brown colored body and a very good lacing. The mild aroma was malt hop. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and strongly tingly at the finish. The strong flavor contained notes of malt and hops. A wonderful best in class brew. This brew has a kick to it! Two mugs and you are feeling it! Very potent stuff!

Pours light copper with a dense cream colored head. The aroma has cream, butterscotch and some odd rich flavor that I can’t distinguish (this drove me nuts that I can’t figure it out). Fairly full body with soft carbonation. Starts fairly warm ABV with thich rich caramel malt, then some butterscotch. The finish gets a bit spicy with even more alcohol warmth. There is a mustiness that permeates throughout the taste. This also gets more alcohol warmth the further down you go. An okay beer, but I couldn’t drink too much of it.

12oz - Aroma is sweet honey, carmel, citrus hops, and alcohol. Pours orange with a small head and good lacing. Flavor is strong alcohol with malty honey and citrus hops follow up. Palate is tart and sticky. Different but messy.

Bottle. small off-white fizzy head that mostly diminished, decent amount of lacing, visible carbonation, and a light orange hue. Malty sweet, fruity, sugary, and a citrus nose. Flavor was spice, sweet, malt, hops, and vinuous. Tingly mouthfeel. Medium body. Good brew and worthy of a try.

Bottle courtesty of Mike. Clear light amber body with medium carbonation. Orange flesh, bitter grass, sweet pale malt in the aroma. Sweet biscuity pale base under strong bitter grassy hops, finishing with tart grapefruity rind. Strong stuff but not that interesting.

Bottle via BBB63. Mike was kind enough to leave this at my house post-tasting. Pours to a nice golden body with a lasting airy rocky white head. Very beautiful lacing. The aroma is wheat-winey with granola and citrus. Lots of things going on in the aroma. Smells quite nice. The flavor has lots of granola going on in it. Perhaps some over-extracted husky grain. Caramel and muddled fruit. Weedy hops. The palate is pretty alcoholic.