Item Nine
Brash Brewing Company in Houston, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
7.16
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This mysterious ale boasts aromas of tropical fruit, a playful bitter edge, and the body and mouthfeel of an American hefe.
Big alcohol and rich white wheat make this unfiltered ale accessible to all types of pallets.
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mcm1 (3805) ticked Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
American strong ale – a loosely defined style I mostly associate with Stone’s Arrogant Bastard – from this somewhat old school, but never disappointing craft brewery in Texas. Bomber bought at Bierkoning in Amsterdam. Egg-white, mousy, medium thick, opening but stable head lacing in shreds ove a lighly hazy orange-hued, pure and deep amber coloured beer. Aroma of candied orange and marmalade, pink grapefruit, soggy toast, old biscuit cake, dried mango, cooked bacon (proteins), Cointreau. Cleanly fruity onset, dried mango and orange peel notes, softish carb; light umami accent from the proteins, again a bit cooked meat- or even cooked chicken-like. Smooth, oily body, toasty and lightly caramelly malt bittersweetness, the bitterness eventually highlighted by a drying, peppery and grapefruity, ‘old-fashioned’ U.S. hop bitterness, zesty and rooty, long and in itself accentuated by a whisky-like alcohol warmth. The aforementioned Arrogant Bastard must have been the ultimate source of inspiration here, this is a classically hopped, smooth and oily, malty and very American beer the way they were made fifteen years ago – and I still love them, amidst and at the root of all those tendencies towards sweetness we have seen in the past few years. Almost like a ‘light’ version of American barleywine. Lovely.
Martin Lindström (24380) ticked Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pour is a murky yellow with a small white head. Aroma is a bit of raisons, some wheat malt, sugar and oak tannins. Flavor is sweet butterscotch with some earthy malt and a bit sugar. Finish is alcohol and maybe a bit of spicy rye. This beer is all over the place. It’s a solid high alcohol beer but does not fit in any category I know of.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at the Jim goes to Malaysia tasting, Den Haag. Poured a hazy medium amber with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet malt, dry floral hop. The flavour is strong bitter with a big floral medicinal spicy hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Kermis (23416) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared. Pours cloudy orange brown with a small white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, overripe dark fruit and oak. Flavor is heavy sweet and moderate bitter. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
bomber bottle shared @Jim is going to malaysia tasting. Thin white head. Very hazy light amber pour. Nice bitterness.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
650ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, orangey golden colour with small, thick, creamy, fairly lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Tropical fruity, hoppy aroma has notes of mango and orange, hints of bitter almond, marzipan, biscuit. Taste is bitter hoppy on biscuity malty basis, notes of bitter almond, marzipan, hints of orange flash up in between; lasting, slightly burning bitter and alcoholic finish, oily texture, soft palate, finepored carbonation. Like other Brash ales, bombastic, pretentious, overdone.
GRM (7524) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brown bottle, 1 pint 6 ounces, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 29 2014; eye: caramel with an orangey hue, hazy, tiny ring of beige head, no lacing; nose: tropical fruits, resinous hops, malt, caramel, tangerine; mouth: tropical fruits, resinous hops, malt, caramel, astringency, alcohol, pepper, tangerine, finale in bittering hops with presence of astringency, full body, good carbonation, quite bitter, lightly sweet, lightly harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 1 pinte 6 onces, 9 %, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 29 juin 2014; œil : caramel avec une teinte orangée, trouble, petit anneau de mousse beige, pas de dentelle; nez : fruits tropicaux, houblon résineux, malt, caramel, tangerine; bouche : fruits tropicaux, houblon résineux, malt, caramel, astringence, alcool, poivre, tangerine, finale en houblon amérisant avec présence d’astringence, corsée, bonne carbonatation, pas mal amère, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement rugueuse; en résumé : bien
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Ins Glas ergießt sich ein dunkel braunes Bier mit schöner Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr röstmalzig, Karamell, fruchtig, hopfig. Geschmack röstmalzig, fruchtig hopfig, Karamell, leicht alkoholisch.