OCT 10, 2024 | FEATURES | By Megan Burich and Izzy Roe (featuring Mariposa Beane)
We are back this week with a special guest: Megan’s lovely roommate and Izzy’s dear sorority daughter Mariposa Beane ‘26. Unfortunately, due to an intense IM soccer game, Izzy is concussed and unable to participate this week (everyone, send her prayers). So, Megan allowed blood relative Mariposa to choose this beer and participate this week. She chose Eagle Brewery’s Banana Bread Beer (5.2%) in an attempt to get into the fall spirit, however, this beer fell short.
Initially, we got hints of ramen and starchiness, almost as if you went to a pub that reeked of beer and were eating french fries while inhaling said beer fumes. We were very disappointed by the lack of banana flavor. With this being said, it was not an offensive beer to drink. It wasn’t too hoppy or heavy, and while Mariposa is not an avid beer drinker, and even “hates” beer (the nerve!) she enjoyed this one, despite the ramen aftertaste.
Overall, it went down easy as we watched men grab each other’s asses (a rugby game). If we didn’t get fall vibes from the beer itself, we definitely got it from the setting we were drinking in: watching our own Tigers get smacked by players from Colorado School of Mines. As Mariposa and I sipped this beer, we also enjoyed scouting our competition for a later mixer we had with said men’s rugby team: three legs Four Lokos. However, our drinking of three beers in an hour before attempting to chug a Four Loko with these valiant men would not work in our favor later that night.
The can design was a large part of what drew us to this beer. A banana peel with a beer coming out of it? C’mon. It was simple and to the point. An onlooker Asta Sjogren-Uyehara ‘26 said it looked like a Guayaki Yerba Mate can, but we didn’t quite see it.
Chuggability was smooth and felt good, unsurprisingly as it was a very mild beer, but Mariposa was not used to the beer for babes chug. We chugged for the same duration but Megan’s beer was half empty and Mariposa’s was only a quarter empty. We’ll let that speak for itself.
As we drank on, we got more of the banana flavor, but overall, we were disappointed. We had high hopes due to the can, and the fact that the man selling us this beer at Weber told us our burps would taste like banana bread (they did not). Overall, we wouldn’t suggest this beer. Since we didn’t get much banana, we would recommend just getting a plain old ale and not being disappointed like us.
Please email and let us know if you have any suggestions because this tactic of choosing a beer based on the can seems to backfire a fair amount of the time.
