Weekapaug Gruit Ale
Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer Regular|
Score
6.69
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft - pours gold white head - nose/taste of rosemary, herbs, florals - medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sample courtesy of Mitch, thanks! Murky amber color, small white head. Aroma of light spice. Taste is very sweet.
CLW (16859) reviewed Weekapaug Gruit Ale from Cambridge Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
$6.99 for a 22 oz. Bottle. Batch 1, April 2012. 5.5%. Amber in color. No head, flat Co2. Nose is all rosemary. The flavor is an variety of ginger, rosemary and some type of odd flower. I’m not a fan of ginger root and I pick it up a lot. Doesn’t help the rating. Overall it’s more like drinking a chilled herbal tea and not a.beer. This was my 2nd or third gruit and unfortunately this doesn’t make me want to run out and try more of the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours deep mahogany into a Sam glass. Mocha head with good retention crackles and recedes leaving no lacing. Sweet summer herb aromas. Slightly tart front to back with earthy caramel and bread upfront turning to mild lasting herb finish. A nice change.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
From tap at the brewpub. Pours hazy dark orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is light caramelish and herbal. Grassy, herbal and spiced flavoured. Rosemary, nettle and some liqourice. Dry, malty and spiced finish. Herbal and caramelish malty finish. Grows on me and likely the best none-hopped brew.
From tap. Pours hazy brown to deep orange with small tan head. Aroma is spiced, herbal. Dry and cinnamon like. Spiced, dry and ligering herbal finish.6-3-6-3-13
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
2004 draught @ the brewery.
Great appearance, medium dark brown (earthy and rusty) with some lighter yellow and gold tinges throughout. Lightly effervescent and has a small off-white head on it.
Aroma is wonderfully herbal, lots of licorice and rosemary in the nose. Hints of malty sweetness.
Flavor begins with a mix of darker malty sweetness, and plenty of herbs. Spicy and varied, it’s quite enjoyable to try to pin down the different herbs used. Some astringency is immediately noticeable. Lightly watery on the finish, but has enough malt to hold up to the drying effect of the herbs. Medium bodied. The spices sit with you on the aftertaste, like a licorice/mint concoction that sticks to your palate. As this beer warmed, the flavors came forth better and it seemed to mix together better as well.
2006 draught July/August at the brewpub.
The nose carries a very strong licorice-like scent, heavy and almost astringent, were it not for the syrupy sweet caramel-chocolate sugars behind it. Not elegant as it was last batch.
If the aroma suggests problems, the flavor is just teeming with them. Syrupy, sweet, underattenuated sugars clog the palate, also due to undercarbonation. Spicing is overdone and rather crude, bombarding you with licorice-like notes again, and bitter root-like flavors/herbs. Don’t get much of the rosemary, unfortunately, as I think that is an important aspect. Poor head retention to-boot and just a mess. 6/2/5/2/8. Rating is an average of the two.