Graze
River Roost Brewery in White River Junction, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.11
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AdamChandler (5745) reviewed Graze from River Roost Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Creamy golden orange color. White head. Smells Insanely fresh like pineapple and Mango and tangerine. Good mouthfeel. Thick and juicy and lots of oil. Taste. Has an Apa juiciness with finish of an intensely hopped simcoe IPA. Very easy drinking
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Graze from River Roost Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 7/8/16 and 32oz growler drunk throughout the remainder of the weekend. Is it an APA or Golden/Blonde? I don’t know. Does it matter? No.
Heavily hazy, dark blonde-bronze beer with a fairly dense, white head showing good retention.
White grape, hay, light cereal notes from the oats and a touch of vanilla and cream of wheat. As it warms, the grain/cereal/malt character loses its hold upon the beer, allowing more and more juicy hop notes to emerge. Gooseberry, melon, lemon and other highly interesting notes abound. Love that it’s not just another mango-pineapple-nectarine concoction (though there is some of that present). No alcohol or flaw.
Intensely soft texture no doubt in part due to the oats, with strong attenuation and a good minerality to it. White grape seems to suggest some Nelson-like character but it could be any number of hops. Nectarine, pineapple, gooseberry and melon all keep things interesting while soft, vanilla-tinged cream-of-wheat-like notes easily and gently balance. Tight carbonation, no flaw or alcohol. Keep em comin’, River Roost.