Church Lady
Revelry Brewing Company in Charleston, South Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.06
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superspak (10160) reviewed Church Lady from Revelry Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Got in a BIF from Dragginballs76. 16 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 4/11/2018. Pours fairly hazy/cloudy golden orange/amber color with a 1 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with solid retention, that reduces to a thin spotty lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Good appearance. Aromas of lemon, orange, peach, plum, pear, melon, red apple, cracker, and toasted bread; with lighter notes of caramel, nuttiness, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/earthy hops, fruity yeast, and bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, orange, peach, plum, pear, melon, red apple, cracker, and toasted bread; with lighter notes of caramel, nuttiness, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, floral, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of lemon, orange, peach, plum, pear, melon, red apple, cracker, toasted bread, light caramel/nutty, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/earthy hops, fruity yeast, and bready malt flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and no astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, and fairly bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is good. Pretty thin, but not too watery. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a good ESB. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/earthy hops, fruity yeast, and bready malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and easy to drink; with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Definitely could use less carbonation, and stronger dark/bready malt character. Well balanced English yeast, malts, and hops. A nicely enjoyable offering, and good style example otherwise.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Church Lady from Revelry Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Clear deep copper and light bronze coloured body with a thin, single centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of grain, pale malt, a touch of caster sugar, light apple and mellow fruits and the slightest hint of earthier hops. Light-bodied; Sharp pungent hop flavour with some astringent bitterness up front all with some mellow sugars mainly from caster sugar, but also a touch of fruits around the edges with a mellow citrusey and grainy character that shows some depth and malty flavours toward the end. Aftertaste is more pervasive in terms of the malt and astringent qualities than any hops, character or depth that an ESB should have. Overall, a pretty underwhelming beer that shows some mellow hops with no real bitterness, a touch of the citrus and mellow fruits, but not much else and no real complexity. Easy to drink, but that isn't so great when this isn't great to drink. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Greenville Beer Exchange in Greenville, South Carolina on 31-May-2018 for US$2,74 sampled at home in Washington on 03-August-2018.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Church Lady from Revelry Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Pretty wide of the mark for an ESB, with an aggressive orange-citrus tang throwing the otherwise decent elements out of whack. Caramel and biscuits provide a solid malt base, and the mild hops add the slightest bit of floral bitterness, but holy hell does the weird citric slant crash the party. Not what I'd call "English yeast character" either, but an unwanted lemon-orange bite that royally fucks things up. Not good.