Beer Camp Across the World: Thai-Style Iced Tea Ale
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: MikkellerSpiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Series Out of Production
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Score
6.24
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Golden orange color with a modest white head. Aroma is mild, a little bready malt and spice. Tastes spicy and floral. Actually reminds me of Belgian yeast in a way, sort of fruity esters and spicy. Lively carbonation and a spicy end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Crisp, clear copper and orange coloured body with a nice, two centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of alcohol, sugar, grass, grain, pungent astringent notes and perhaps some tea? Medium-bodied; Assertive sweet and pungent astringent flavours with a lot of grain, alcohol and sugars throughout with a very mild flavour throughout and nothing at all cohesive in the slightest with no real style they had in mind at all. Aftertaste is just as scatter-brained with some sweetness, a ton of grain, even more alcohol and somehow even more astringent bitter notes that don't show anything worthwhile. Overall, this is a very wasteful beer and it could have been something decent at least, but this thing is a pure mess. Nice to sample as part of the twelve pack, and if for some reason this is the only beer you are missing from your twelve pack or can't find as a single, consider yourself lucky! I sampled this stubby twelve ounce bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Fair Lakes (Fairfax), Virginia on 12-August-2017 for US$25,99/twelve pack, sampled at home in Washington on 09-September-2017. Sadly, the only reason this is even as high as it is rated is because it starts with MIK and people for some strange reason go crazy and think it has to be a good beer. It is not.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Poured from a 12 oz bottle. Aroma is interesting but doesn't really remind me of Thai Iced Tea. There are some tea notes along with red apple, citrus and tamarind. Fairly fruity and ester-forward aroma. Pours a somewhat hazy, copper color with some brown hues and a medium small, fairly thick, white head that exhibits good retention. Flavor is moderately sweet with some lactose, honey and light caramel. Moderate bitterness with the anise making an appearance in the finish. Light citrus notes with more tamarind and red apple notes. Light tea notes. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, this beer is odd and I'm not really sure the Brewers have ever had a proper Thai Iced Tea, because this doesn't taste like anything I have ever had. Really not great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Copper gold with a beige head. Served in a snifter. The aroma is cream and black tea but I don't pick up much on the spices. Maybe I served it too cold. Medium bodied, raspy carbonation and the taste is big lactose sweetness then some spices. The chai character starts to open up as it warms. I choose to pair this with some ice cream. Which accentuated the spice and cut the lactose right down rendering the beer dry. Nice when paired, on it's own it's a bit much.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from the box set. Nose is lemon, chai, light caramel, iced tea. Hazy orange amber with a low lacy head. Very spicy flavor, peppery, tingly, cinnamon, cardamom. Also orange, tea, cream. I actually quite like this, but not as beer--it isn't the least bit beery, but a nice Thai style iced tea cocktail. Tasty, but too sweet.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared by Jack, thanks! Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of lemon and tea with grains underlying. Flavor has grains and tea with a bit of a lemon bite and a hint of anise.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Dark chocolate, black raspberry nose. Clear amber, thin head. Licorice, orange. Medium body, easy carbonation. Very unique, pretty neat.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Light lactose and light spice aroma. Lactose and tea flavor. Medium bodied. Lactose and tea linger with light spice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle: Cloudy, brownish-yellow with a thin, off-white head. Tea, mild caramel scent. Taste is tea, a spot of milk, grain malt. Just a little peppery in the aftertaste. Pleasant.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12 ounce bottle. Amber orange color topped by a moderate sized frothy beige head. Fragrant spicy nose has notes of star anise and orange. Sweet toasted malt flavor is full of spice. Star anise and tamarind most notably. Notes of black tea and toast. Creamy mouthfeel . Some citrus notes in finish.