Mystical Jack Traditional Ale
Minhas Craft Brewery in Monroe, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
5.94
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5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle from Trader Joes (HLV Ale). Huge foamy head, medium brown body. Aroma is too sweet, candy, cough syrup. Taste is just a tad bit better, sweet and cloying, soda sweet. Body weight OK, mouth feel alright, terrible finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2015
at 21:07
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bomber: labelled as ’Boatswain H.L.V. Ale. Opened on 28th May 2015, my fourth beer of a mini tasting session I am having with myself while here in Southern California. Only bought the beer because I thought it was a new brewery to me: turns out it is not a new brewery, just a ’Trader Joe’ make believe name. Anyway this live rate is about to start: beer poured into a La Chouffe badged stemmed tulip (twice). Nice looking beer, clean and clear body: chestnut red, with a full and lasting off-white crown. Malty and woody nose, sweet malty taste, raisins and a spoon full of sugar per sip . A little too sweet, even for my sweet tooth: needs to calm down and have some hop influence somewhere. Bordering on sickly. Struggled to finish the whole bottle: hand full of M&M’s helped.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2015
at 21:39
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bomber from Trader Joe’s - pretty lame-ass strong brown, a little like an English strong - strong caramelized maltiness, more like charred/burnt - leafy bitterness, syrupy sweetness - some dark bread and dried fruit - a bit of a medicinal finish - pretty lame.
Tried
on 20 May 2015
at 21:09
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Trader Joe’s labeled Boatswain H.L.V. ale. Pours hazy medium brown color with tan head. Toasted malt and caramel aromas with some nuttiness. Caramel and toffee flavors with toasted malt, dough, and nuts with lots of sweetness. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2015
at 21:35
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle labeled as Boatswain HLV. Clear dark amber with creamy large off-white head, light caramel aroma with a hint of vanilla, low carbonation, somewhat stale caramel taste, abrupt finish. Quite a heneric brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2015
at 20:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
22oz bottle pours with a clear rosy red to amber body that supports a tan head. The aroma offers up a mix of cherries, prunes, brown sugar, molasses and honey covered hazel nuts. The taste however is nearly the same as I get brown sugar coated prunes and cherries blended with molasses and thin sweet nuttiness. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2014
at 21:01
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a snifter because I thought it was a strong ale.
The appearance was a ruddy burnt orange to brown color with a slight transparency about it. There’s some light lacing after the head dissipated.
The smell was weird as there’s some burnt grainy malts going inside of some burnt caramel breadiness with a lot of booze coming in.
The taste was basically the same as the smell.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with not much of a sessionable quality about it. The carbonation seemed to be okay as a brown ale or a strong ale.
Overall, brown ale or strong ale, well the boozy part is there. Honestly, I wasn’t really digging the smell and the taste. I probably wouldn’t seek this out again.
This was poured into a snifter because I thought it was a strong ale.
The appearance was a ruddy burnt orange to brown color with a slight transparency about it. There’s some light lacing after the head dissipated.
The smell was weird as there’s some burnt grainy malts going inside of some burnt caramel breadiness with a lot of booze coming in.
The taste was basically the same as the smell.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with not much of a sessionable quality about it. The carbonation seemed to be okay as a brown ale or a strong ale.
Overall, brown ale or strong ale, well the boozy part is there. Honestly, I wasn’t really digging the smell and the taste. I probably wouldn’t seek this out again.
Tried
on 13 Jul 2014
at 11:16