Fiddlehead Brewing Company Tejas Marrón

Tejas Marrón

 

Fiddlehead Brewing Company in Shelburne, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸

  Brown Ale - Imperial Rotating
Score
6.76
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 75 Ticks: 7
Citrus, chocolate & burnt sugar notes meld together in this big, hoppy brown ale brewed with brown sugar.
 

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5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Draught at Ginger Man Boston, 6/21/17.
Deep auburn-and-amber body shows moderately-low clarity and a dark beige head atop with moderate to moderately retention.
Brown bread-like specialty malts, dotted with light caramel-toffee, face down strong grapefruit and pine while a bit of a reprieve comes via light pineapple and peach-like fruitiness. Some alcoholic esters keep things mostly sharp, though, despite the heavy showing of specialty malt, and tons of red fruits mixing with more bread and light caramel show forth on the finish. The plasticy yeast, or old/stale/off hop note (whichever it is) is highly present here and dulls things considerably.
Strong in the mouth, it’s plasticy and dry on the finish, too much so, with too much hop acidity and scratchy specialty malts pitted against fleetingly fruity hops and only a smattering of light honey-caramel-like sweetness. Carbonation is at least fairly tight/engaging and there’s some semblance of malt texture, but it’s just too dry and sharp on the finish, all exacerbated by whatever this strange, plasticy off-note is that was present in all three of the beers I tried of theirs tonight. It was so pervasive that all of their beers seemed to run together and taste the same; so dominant was it. Will revisit some batches down the road and see if they’ve cleaned it up.

Tried on 15 Aug 2017 at 17:46


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tallboy can shared at the December MDF tasting. Hazy orange, thin fizzy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of chocolate, caramel, earthy hops. The taste is herbal, earthy hops and caramel. Medium bodied, mild lingering bitterness.

Tried from Can on 21 Dec 2015 at 01:41


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can shared by Beastiboy2k, RBSG
Clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head, lots of lacing. Aroma is fruity and pine. Taste is piney and citrus
Good

Tried from Can on 21 Jun 2015 at 21:13


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can - Caramel and hops. Cloudy Amber with a decent light beige head. Caramel, Woody notes and some decent hoppy notes. Hops are quite pronounced, nice.

Tried from Can on 19 Jun 2015 at 03:27


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can thanks to Beastie. Pours a cloudy copper with small off white head. The aroma is tea, pine, citrus. Medium mouth, grass, pine hop, light bitterness, very good.

Tried from Can on 19 Jun 2015 at 02:55


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can pours out cola color topped with a sand head. Nose is pine citrus hops caramel malts and fruit. Taste is more of the sweetness caramel lots of hops.

Tried from Can on 19 Jun 2015 at 02:34


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can. Pours a cloudy amber color with a large white head. A big sweet malty nose. The flavor is big sweet fruity pine, light toffee, berries.

Tried from Can on 19 Jun 2015 at 02:24