On today’s tasting at The Murder Table we’re trying two brew’s from Zed’s Beer in Marlton, NJ. One is their Ireland Style Dry Stout and the other is a Salted Carmel.

When these beers were purchased at a NJ farmer’s market last fall, we were told that mixing these beers would be well worth trying. So for this review, we’re trying them on their own and then taking their advice and making a half and half.

Here’s a bit more info about Zed’s Beer taken directly from their manifesto:

We are a 10 barrel micro-brewery specializing in what we call “approachable craft beer”. We believe that craft beer has gotten a bad rap with some consumers over the last few years – and we’d like to change that. While certain beer styles tend to be trendy, there are an awful lot of great beer styles that we feel are currently overlooked in the market – or that have become so extreme, in terms of alcohol content or hoppiness, that they are hard for many drinkers to enjoy.

Our forefather, Zed, believed that beer-drinking should be a social experience that you enjoy with friends and neighbors. It shouldn’t be a challenge to finish a great, well-crafted beer, and maybe even order another! Some people refer to our kind of beer as “session beer” – meaning you can have more than one in a sitting, without getting too intoxicated or getting palate fatigue. We offer a choice of something other than watered-down commodity beer that was brewed in a giant vat somewhere and had to travel hundreds or thousands of miles, in god-only-knows conditions – or a heavy craft beer that you have to sip like a cordial because it’s too boozy, or just too weird.

We love the word approachable. It makes us want to drink more rather than go the one and done route that occurs when drinking high-octane brews. To find out if our first two brews from Zed’s Beer live up to their manifesto, click play on the following video:

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