Dixie Brewing Company's Blackened Voodoo Lager

I hate all things that incorporate the word 'Dixie' into them, and despite avoiding this one for years for that very reason, I decided to buy it just so I could hate on it.

Blackened? Not really. It's closer to a brown. It's like their hillbilly dislike for black people kept them from making a black beer, too. It has that wet raisin smell that poorly made lagers often have.

It's a lager, so I didn't expect it to have much body, but this tastes and feels like an MGD 64--whatever that tastes like, anyway. It feels weak. The bitterness tastes like it comes from a bad metal taste from the tanks, not hops. No malt to speak of.

All in all, exactly what I expected. Maybe the next big hurricane will take this place out for good.

Brauerei Beck and Co.'s Beck's Dark

Well, I'm not sure why I bought this. I had never seen it before, and the notion of "Beck" and "dark" seemed so contrary that I was just plain intrigued.

Pours a deep coppery brown with a decent tan head that is small celled and goes quickly.

Smells like a German pilsner to me. It has that in-your-face skunk smell that I like about pilsners, with a hint of nut brown thrown in.

Smooth enough, certainly has more body that the standard Beck's, Carlson, or the like. Tastes like an adulturated pilsner. Not terrible, but oddly twangy and tastes like it's almost exclusively made of adjuncts.

Meh.