Rock Bottom Des Moines Anniversary XII
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery: Des Moines in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.71
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft @ FoBAB 2009, Chicago, IL. Pours a dark orange color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity spicy ginger aroma with hints of wood and honey. Sweetish malty spicy ginger and honey flavor with hints of barrel. Has a sweetish malty spicy ginger and honey finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Goblet pour @ the brewpub. I just wanted to get a growler on my way through town but their "growler machine" was not working. I wasn’t looking to figure out what the hell they were talking about. Either way, I got some of the anniversary beer because I didn’t want this to be a wasted stop. I asked the bartender about the style of the beer and he told me that it was the brown ale aged in Templeton Rye barrels and then infused with a bunch of stuff, including citrus (I stopped paying attention at that point, but it was a bunch of stuff). If this wasn’t Iowa, this beer would probably be an American Strong Ale. However, since Iowa has a 6.2 abv cap I don’t feel right calling it a Strong Ale of any sort (despite what the British think) and thought that S/H/V worked best but I am open to a few different categories for this. But lets get to the point.
Appearance is rusty, brown, dirt, and mud colored. Extremely murky, cannot see through it but it doesn’t work as far as looking pretty. The beer seems to be full of different stuff and that it comes off as a mish-mash of flavors that do not differentiate. In the end you got a thick, light;y citrusy. amalgamation of flavors where the other flavors are not coming out. Its drinkable, has a cool idea, but its like combining 5 different cereal;, in the end it just doesn’t tastes any better than either cereal alone.