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SHMALTZ CONEY ISLAND FREAKTOBERFEST

On tap, wayward ruddy magenta amber lager offers herbal dried fruiting to cereal-grained toasted malting. Orange-dried cherry-fig-date conflux perks up diminutive almond-buttered chestnut roast. Puzzling flavor mix is as freaky as beer’s circus-inspired moniker. In bottle, ubiquitous gin-soaked caraway-seeded honeyed wheat tapestry provides funky promenade for bodacious limestone-salted lemon-bruised grapefruit bittering and stewed prune souring, upping its rating.

KILLARNEY’S RED LAGER

Irish malts enliven frisky apple stint and sweet barley flow (typical Budweiser characteristics). Luckily, it lacks the cloy nature of its cheaper predecessor and instead pours thick with beautifully cascading auburn bubbles drifting elegantly towards the top. More robust and flavorful than Killian’s Red Lager and much closer to the delicious tap beers Bud gives away to patrons at Florida’s Busch Gardens Sea World.