Forbidden Fruit
Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Merridale Cidery & DistilleryCider - Graff Regular Out of Production
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Score
5.33
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle from the Snowcase 2015, Advent calendar
Blond color, clean, with small frothy head. Smells of warm plastic, and a bit of fruit, and mulled wine spices. Dry mouthfeel, the flavor is poor and a bit skunky, and the bitterness very low.
Unpleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle - Mild baked apple and some pale malts. Clear gold with a small white head. Apple, vegetal notes and not much else. Not good.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
341mL bottle, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma is almost non-existent, with some faint apple notes. Flavour is quite earthy and herbal, with faint apples notes, a very earthy quality and some stale cardboardy notes. What's the point here? No idea what they were going for. Crap.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Bottle, Brewery Creek
Light gold with a gentle sparkle. Somewhat appley nose with the standard Merridales high alcohols. Maybe some malt base in there somewhere, but it’s definitely obscured. Tastes disjointed. The beer isn’t well-suited...it’s not a hoppy beer really but I think it’s too hoppy for this mix. There’s just enough hops to clash. Throw in the high alcohols and you’ve got some really astrigent ick that you really have to choke back. Chug fast, too - you don’t want to let it get warm.