Certified Evil

At the advice (dare?!) of a friend, we tried Certified Evil by Lucky Bucket Brewing Company. It's a Belgian Strong Ale that took the Silver Award at the 2009 World Beer Championships...and for good reason, too. It's great.

From the website:

Certified Evil is the result of a 2008 collaboration project with Todd Ashman of Fifty Fifty Brewing in Truckee, California and Matt Van Wyk of Oakshire Brewing in Eugene, Oregon. Each brewer set out to create a dark Belgian strong ale with their own unique spin on the style. Since the first collaboration, six new breweries have been added to the project to invent a truly unique beer. This beer is properly named Certified Evil.

The new Certified Evil recipe is more complex and interesting than the brew from 2008. This new beer blends Certified Evil aged in Cabernet barrels for one year with a younger batch of oaked aged Certified Evil. The combination makes for a vibrant yet smooth and elegant taste. The recipe also includes a wide variety of complex sugars including turbinado sugar, molasses and honey. The result is an amazingly complex beer. Truly a must try to any craft beer lover.

Not only did we 'handle' it as challenged, but we quite enjoyed it as well! Will definitely purchase again.