Sinister
Laughing Sun Brewing Company in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.76
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Sinister is a trickster! Playful, easy-drinking, effervescent, and dressed in golden finery, this beer packs the punch of a heavyweight champ. The pilsner malt profile and light pear flavor from the yeast esters draw you close. Raw sugar in the boil grabs you closer with a fervent clutch. No ill will intended! Surrender, sip, and smile.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From a 12 oz can. Pours a clear gold with an off white head. Aromas of bananas and cloves. Flavors are moderately sweet pear and banana.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Nov 2021
at 21:24
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. can from shrubber85 poured into a glass. Hazy golden with medium white head. Aroma is pear, medium body, medium carbonation, and pretty good small-bubble lacing. Taste is pear, apple, straw, and some booze.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jul 2021
at 00:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Pear, lemon, yeast, biscuit malt, and fresh hay aroma. Golden yellow with large off-white head. Moderately sweet pear, citrus, biscuit malt, and mildly bitter hay and alcohol flavor. Okay body - mild alcoholic finish.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2021
at 01:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can thanks to Drake! Gold, hint of haze, white head. Yeast, grassy nose. Flavor is yeast, light citrus peal, pear, grasses and green leaf, light glue in the end.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Oct 2020
at 23:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce can from Happy Harry's 45th St. Fargo, 9/5/20. Hazy pale amber, large creamy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of stone fruit and yeast. Taste is stone fruit, citrus, pale malt, yeast. Medium bodied. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Sep 2020
at 01:33
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draft at Tap Room. Clear yellow color, medium white head. Aroma of perry and citrus. Taste has fruity lemon. OK.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 May 2015
at 13:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
On tap.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a nice looking hazed over glossy orange color with a thin wisp of a head. After the head died off after a minute, a nice looking faded lacing strung itself around the glass.
The smell had a sweet slightly spiced Belgian yeasty pear with a light sweet breadiness about it.
The taste was semi-sweet with an off spicy sort of nice Belgian-esque aftertaste. A light semi-sweet/spicy dry finish rounds it out.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body. A decent sessionable aspect accompanies and makes a well rounded out feel all around. Carbonation feels good and rolls along nicely over my tongue.
Overall, good fruity Belgian-esque beer. I would have again.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a nice looking hazed over glossy orange color with a thin wisp of a head. After the head died off after a minute, a nice looking faded lacing strung itself around the glass.
The smell had a sweet slightly spiced Belgian yeasty pear with a light sweet breadiness about it.
The taste was semi-sweet with an off spicy sort of nice Belgian-esque aftertaste. A light semi-sweet/spicy dry finish rounds it out.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body. A decent sessionable aspect accompanies and makes a well rounded out feel all around. Carbonation feels good and rolls along nicely over my tongue.
Overall, good fruity Belgian-esque beer. I would have again.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Mar 2015
at 21:16
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft - Fruity esters and the pear is apparent with the yeast. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Fruity esters, stone fruit and a peachy, yeasty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Sep 2014
at 14:19
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
GABF 2013. Pours a hazy/cloudy yellow appearance with a thin white head. Big fruity, apple, pear, lemon, banana, fruity yeasty aroma. Fairly strong, a touch boozy, lemon, pear, spicy yeasty flavor. No fruit was added to this, but it sure tastes like it. Finally a North Dakota tick!
Tried
on 15 Oct 2013
at 21:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at GABF. Pours cloudy yellow with white head. Nose and taste of pear juice, lemongrass, white sugar and belgian yeast. Medium body.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Oct 2013
at 23:26