AFFORDABILITY: Also around $9 a 6-pack, and this one was only made the next fucking county over. How can a fauntleroy beer from California be just as cheap (meaning expensive) as one made 30 minutes from my house? I don't get it. Hopefully, at Blue Mountain Brewery in Nelson County, I can at least get growlers of their beer. 2 out of 5, on sheer growler speculation.
DESTROYABILITY: This beer gave unimportant hops and IBU data on the bottle, and promised 7.0% alcohol by volume, but kinda sucked, so I never got around to getting drunk. I actually think there's one or two of these still in the fridge, almost two weeks later. 2 out of 5.
LABEL AESTHETIC: Blue Mountain Brewery just started up this year, and you can tell it's a start-up. The label, which has some rinky-dink Christmas light strand running around the edge of the main shield, is a good enough idea, but it's like somebody's 20-year-old nephew who works bar at college did the design. It's budget looking. That's fine, it's a start-up company, but if you're gonna charge me premium prices, come with the premium snappiness. The glossy paper of the label even seems odd to me, but I could just be looking for shit to pick at. Although the alleged Blue Mountain brewmaster, according to the label, is a man named Taylor Smack. 2 out of 5.
CORPORATE MASTER: Like I said, Blue Mountain Brewery, in Nelson County, which is actually two counties over, because I always forget the non-rich fucker part of Albemarle County in the southern and western mountainous part of it is actually still part of Albemarle County. I heartily endorse small breweries being within driving distance of my home. The people who started this one even tried to put together a brewery tour idea, to hit the three or four of these in the area, to try and capitalize on the same idea the local wineries have done to make Virginia wine a pretty big fish in the small pond that is American wines not made in California. I can stand behind such an endeavor, especially if Taylor Smack is for-real. 5 out of 5.
OVERALL AMBIANCE: A disappointing first taste of this new company's beer, although they have another one called Full Nelson that I'll probably give a shot too. But I can probably do without the Lights Out next holiday season, especially with every two-bit brewery making seasonal ales nowadays. 1 out of 5.
TOTAL RATING: 2 & 2/5 STARS!
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