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 - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Clear orange/amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet with tea being fairly prominent. The flavor is sweet with the star anise dominating the flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Orange, tea, light anise, and biscuit malt aroma. Golden yellow with moderate head. Moderately sweet citrus, light black tea, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter orange peel/dry grass flavor. Okay body. Straight forward - didn’t get much spices in this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottled 4/20/17, drunk 5/28/17.
Dark copper, touch of haze, with a small, white head showing low retention.
Anise, ginger and light black tea notes in the nose give a fair enough mix of spice that, while somewhat unbalanced, isn’t offensive or anything. Beer really fails to show through behind it, but for some unfocused sweetness that could be either adjunct or malt-derived. No alcohol or flaw, though you’d hardly be able to note them in the face of all this.
Sweet in the mouth and gaining light syrupiness, only to turn somewhat watery towards the finish. Lots of tea character that somewhat complements the sweetness though fails to really dry it out much. Not getting any of the lactose, which in my mind, is a big part of a thai iced tea (the heavy cream). Kind of just a caramel-honey-sweet tea flavor with TONS of anise as it warms and breathes. Carbonation is low, somewhat loose. Seems much more novelty than it does any meaningful experiment.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From tap. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and toasted maæty. Light fruity and slight caramelish. Sweet and toasted, fruity and slight bitter far finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from 2017 Beer Camp case. Medium amber, with thin coating of head. Aroma has some faint tea essence, mostly tea but not strong. Taste brings more of the tea, a little lacto sweetness, and some savory notes at the end. Having never had Thai iced tea, I suppose they got it near enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy golden color with a large creamy orange-white head that lingered and left decent lacing. The aroma was dry, dusty and musty with a vague spicy note. The flavor was dry, dusty and musty with a cardamom presence. Medium length finish. Medium body. Meh.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught @ Rattle ’n’ Hum East. Clear ice tea color, with small creamy whitish head, faint tea aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter caramel taste with tea flavor, smooth body, long bitter caramel finish with alcohol undertones. The alcohol taste is too obvious.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles’ place. Thanks troubles. Golden. Tea, orange, anise, alcohol, sweet, spicy, a bit of honey, a bit sticky. Not too pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. A- Orange peel, star anise, grassy, bitter, malty, tea, lactose. A- Orange color, clear liquid, white head. T- Mild bitterness, creamy, grassy, tea, orange pith, star anise. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, slightly bitter finish. O- For some reason I actually had hope it would taste like a Thai Iced Tea, one of my favorite drinks. Not surprisingly, it didn’t. I mean it had a mild aroma and taste of tea and some of the ingredients listed but certainly no Thai Tea. Sort of bland and boring in all reality. The aroma was more on point than the flavor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Wegman’s. Orange clear color, medium body. Taste has discordant notes of hops, gin, black tea. Astringent finish is not pleasant.