Merry Elf-mas!

Christmas is over, but I'm confident enough to speak for all of us and say we've all still got the sugar slumbers.  I ate Dippin Dots for lunch yesterday.  Dippin dots.  I just watched my dog eat a jelly bean.  (Is that dangerous for them?  Someone tell me if that's dangerous.)

But ALSO, people for the most part turn into elves for the Christmas season, and strange things happen.

When it comes to this weekend's beer selection, I'm not sure if that fits into Buddy's food groups.  Do elves drink?  Which elf is responsible for this Oddsides release, Boozy The Elf?  Let's clink.

Oddsides Merry Elf

So here's the plan - I don't think Buddy The Elf is into beers, but I'm going to have him do as much of the review as possible, with limited commentary from myself.  It'll be fun.  The label says it's made with candi sugar and orange peel, which sounds very christmassy.

Appearance - 

I picked the bottle because it's designed like a Christmas sweater.  The beer is dark and transparent-ish, which looks really cool.  It's like coca-cola, super pretty. (4.5/5)

Smell - 

I don't think Buddy and I are going to agree on a lot here. I think it smells like year-old Christmas cookie tins.  I made the mistake one year of putting chocolate peanut butter cookies in the same tin that peppermint cookies were in previously, which resulted in peppermint chocolate peanut butter mutant cookies. (3.5/5)

Taste - 

Buddy The Elf doesn't know his coffee.  Secondary flavors I can pick up on include the brown crayon, wet bark, and chewed-up cheap cigars.  But the primary flavor is DEFINITELY burnt popcorn, 100%.  It's like that one household every year whose Christmas tree catches on fire, AND they somehow ruined Christmas dinner, so all they have available to eat on Christmas is the burned popcorn-garland from the sad tree. Although, that's when Chinese becomes a really good choice. (2.5/5)

You would like this beer if you sit on a throne of lies.

A good occasion to drink this beer:  During long visits to relatives' houses for the holidays.  Gotta make it through somehow.

Overall:  Whenever something tastes EXACTLY like something else, and the something else is not very pleasant, and/or not meant to be consumed as a beverage, it's really hard for me to get on board.  It's like, who even likes the buttered popcorn Jelly Belly?  That's not supposed to be a sweet treat. A better way to spend your holiday vacation would be making snow angels for two hours, then going ice skating, then eating a whole roll of Tollhouse cookie dough as fast as you can, then to finish it off, snuggling. (3.5/5)