Breckenridge Brewery's Lucky U IPA

Another brewery I always want to like, Breckenridge has some fairly decent beers. From what I can remember, their best so far is their Agave Wheat.

This one pours a nice coppery amber with a light tan head that thins to a sheet quickly.

Smells nice. Grassy, with sweet malt.

Very nice. Good punch right up front, fades cleanly through sweet malt to a dry, bitter aftertaste.

Good beer. They stuck to the basics, and it turned out well.

Breckenridge Brewery's Oatmeal Stout

With a couple of exceptions, Breckenridge is a lackluster brewery producing lackluster beers under lackluster labels. This is one of those exceptions.

Their oatmeal stout pours an opaque black, with a small tan head that thins to a collar. Smells like grainy, sharp molasses, with a roasted smell.

Sharp for an oatmeal stout, like they skimped a bit on the oatmeal, but it's not out of type because it gives way to both a moderate bitterness and a slight sweetness from the oats. Deep, roasted malt. Straight-up (non-RIS, anyway) stouts like this are lighter in body than I like, but that's my subjectivity. It has the right amount of malt backbone and body with the classic roasted taste of a stout, with the oats contributing the smoothness and sweetness that would otherwise be absent.

My favorite Breckenridge beer so far.