Bananarama

Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

Brown Ale - Imperial Rotating Out of Production

Score

5.92

ABV: 10.0%

IBU: 5

Ticks: 2

A strong brown ale brewed with bananas and molasses. A large variety of specialty malt creates the hearty backbone for this dark brown ale. Sweet malt characteristics blend seamlessly with pronounced candied molasses flavors, creating a thick creamy mouthfeel. Soft aromas of banana hide in the nose alongside sweet fragrant precursors of flavors to come. The finish has a distinguishable alcohol presence that dries and creates a warming affect hinting to it’s conceptual rum origins.

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5.4

ben4321 (11522) reviewed Bananarama from Short's Brewing Company 14 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Location: On tap at Churchkey, 6/12/11

Aroma: Lots of banana on nose, with a lot of booze too, and some spice
Appearance: It has a mahogony pour with an off-white head and spotty lace
Flavor: There's less banana in the flavor, still quite boozy, and the spice comes out in the finish
Palate: Ths one is fairly smooth, a touch sticky, with a medium body, but it comes off as a bit muddled
Overall Impression: My first rating from Churchkey! What a great addition to the DC bar scene (I know, I'm a little late to the party, but just hadn't gotten there yet!). Anyway, as for this "beer," and but beer in quotes for a reason, because this wasn't really beer as much as this was some weird fucking shit. However, it kind of grows on you (and I mean that in a good way). A quick glance down the previous scores shows me that I didn't hate it as much as everyone else did...

Tried from Draft on 15 Jun 2011 at 19:35

4.1

radagast83 (13490) reviewed Bananarama from Short's Brewing Company 14 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

At Short’s Brewing Monster Tap Takeover at Churchkey. Came to me as a dark brown, tiny, vanishing head. Aroma is average, seemed like there’s something up with it. Flavor was, well - disappointing. I caught the banana in there, but it was, neither all that powerful, nor was it all that good. It could have been simply that pour or that keg, but I don’t think I’ll be seeking this one out again.

Tried from Draft on 03 Jun 2011 at 02:18