Grandpa Tractor
Barley Forge Brewing Company in Costa Mesa, California, United States 🇺🇸
Lager Regular|
Score
5.99
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle at home. Aroma is grainy malt, straw, a bit bready, hint of yeast, noble hops. Flavour is light sweet and over moderate bitter. Body is medium. Rather straightforward, grainy, lacks depth but drinkable.
bb (18607) reviewed Grandpa Tractor from Barley Forge Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Amber beer with a whitish head. Malt and light citrus aroma. Light caramel and light earthy flavor. Medium bodied. Light caramel and light earth linger.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pour is a clear gold with a smallish white head. Aroma is a little oily hop and some sweet grain malt. Flavor is a little better with some grassy noble hop and the malt is not sweet at all but rather dry and crackery. This turned out to be a nice after work chugger.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Got in a trade with RaulMondesi. 12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 3/5/2018. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of cracker, white bread, and biscuit dough; with lighter notes of toast, honey, nutty, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of big cracker, white bread, and biscuit dough; with lighter notes of toast, honey, nutty, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread, biscuit dough, light honey/nutty, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance; and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero fruity notes present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is an excellent Dortmunder lager! All around great robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorsful and not watery for the ABV. Very clean and nicely rich pils/Munich malts, with solid noble hop presence/balance. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle from Top Shelf Liqours, Cottonwood. A slightly hazy pale straw colour with a fast fading white head; grassy aroma with a hint of citrus; sweet malty body with a refreshing lemon taste; and a light grassy bitterness. Clean, crisp and refreshing, but lacking the body I expect from a Helles.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at the brewpub. Clear pale yellow-gold color with a medium thin white head that evaporates quickly to a film. Short strings of lacing. Grassy hops, fruit and malt in the nose. Light-bodied with flavors of herbal hops, doughy malt and a bit of fruit. The finish is mildly bitter with a short grassy hop aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Bine & Vine. Pours pale gold with a white head. Aroma is bready with a light spice touch. Near med body. Flavor is lightly sweet and bready with some very light spicy/grassy hop. A thirst quencher. For gulping, not savoring.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
12oz bottle into an old Ayingerbrau ’Alpine Lager’ glass tankard on my daughters patio on 28th April 2016: a present from my one year old Grand Daughter. Slight haze to the light golden body, the full white soon turning into a wisp then nothing. Corn in the nose and taste, refreshing and thirst quenching in the Californian afternoon sun but lacking in flavour and oomph. The rear label mentions the Grandpa is ’Jerry’, so am I. Scored sympatheticly.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. A yellow beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of straw and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes straw and malt, leading to a bitter finish.
Reubs (35701) reviewed Grandpa Tractor from Barley Forge Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle@yesprs - Clear golden pour with white head. Aroma and taste is grassy hoppy with some citrus fruity notes, grain, floral hoppy notes, bit sweet.