Great Raft Shallow Water Kolsch Ale

Burial Beer, Asheville, NC This beer is for the prettiest champion of the battle, the masked walkers of the night, the keepers of the beat, and feathered dancers of Super Sunday.   4.5% ABV Cloudy gold with a very interesting nose of light malt with a hint of cleaning supplies.  Tastes like a Winn-Dixie Sprite…

Great Raft Reasonably Corrupt Black Lager

Great Raft Brewing, Shreveport, LA Robust and smooth.  Light body.  Don’t let the darkness fool you. 5.5% ABV Black as pitch with a sweet malty nose.  Sweet then bitter: tastes like coffee.  Like a light-bodied Porter.  If you have not had a Porter or a Stout before and wary to try one, try this beer…

Great Raft Southern Drawl Pale Lager

Great Raft Brewing, Shreveport, LA German influenced.  Southern brewed.  Mildly traditional.  Wildly drinkable. 5.2% ABV This Pale Lager is golden in color with not much of a nose to it: just a hint of malt.  In essence, it tastes like a lager but without the lager bite; that is replaced by the smoothness of an…

Great Raft Commotion APA

Great Raft Brewing, Shreveport, LA BOLD.  GENEROUSLY HOPPED.  BALANCED. 5.5% ABV Great Raft’s Commotion American Pale Ale smells hoppy, but not as hoppy as Parish’s Envie.  It also has a somewhat fruity smell on the nose.  It tastes light, with some bitterness up front but more at the end.  There is no other real flavor….