Slippery Slope
Cascade Lakes Brewing Company in Redmond, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.47
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
On Tap at Taphouse, Boise Clear chestnut witha fine thin off white head. Woody light toasted malt aroma. More wood and grassy bitterness. Some carmel notes. Not very interesting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle picked up at Total Wine, which is my "out of season, but still good, local craft" superstore. Not the first, and certainly won’t be the last. A darker amber pour with a rocky foam head. Mild aroma of caramel malt, oak, and the slightest hinted hop impression. Flavor is a slightly rich, dusty caramel malt, with another wood note. A solid winter ale I’m sure, but this is doing just fine in the sun watching baseball. Quite the tasty session strong ale here. This would be a fine addition to the year round lineup. UPDATE:. Rerate month 2018. Looks like it's starting to creep towards regular lineup status, considering I'm drinking it at the brewery in June. A solid beer here. Still really enjoy it.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle picked up at Total Wine in Spokane
Pours cloudy dark amber with a small off-white head, light lacing. Aroma of caramel, dark fruit and chocolate. Flavor of toasted malts, bready, grapefruit and pine resin
Ok
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12oz bottle poured into goblet glass Augustign goblet. Clear and dark ruby color. Lacing covers the surface of the beer. This is an Americanized English Strong Ale or maybe a session American Strong Ale. Aroma is unsugary slightly spoiled fruit maltiness. Its almost a bit barleywine-like. There is a bit of toasted malt. Nothing overpowering but strong. Flavor is sweet dark fruits at first and it fades quickly to an earthy malt with a faint generic hop end. Lightly sweet but unsugary, low hop character, well restrained but strong dark fruit presence. Its like a mini barleywine. Cascade Lakes is 2 for 2 with me, I’m always not expecting much but am very pleasantly surprised.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sparkling copper,thick beige head.Malt nose with fruity tones.More of same in palate, nicely balanced with medium hop finish
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Bend pub. Pours out a pale crisp copper topped with a white head. Nose is cardboard grass and sweetness. Taste is as the nose but with a good caramel sweetness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
A bottle from Yamaichi via rakuten. I guess the low marks had me not expecting so much so I was pleasently surprised when I pour a wonderful reddish brown beer with a weak head. It has a great malty aroma of caramel & toffee. The flavor is really nice, it starts off with sweet flavors from the malts: toffee, caramel, figs, etc. It’s then followed by a dry hoppy finish but the pine flavor of Cascades is really muted. All in all I really like this beer!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Brewforia (pretty sure!). Pours dark ruddy copper with a creamy beige head. Aroma of bread and perhaps cocoa. It’s certainly a darker breadiness. Med body. Flavor is bready and I do think chocolate. But there’s something that suggests diacetyl, but I don’t think that’s it. It’s pretty balanced, and it’s pretty tasty - it just has something that suggests xmas brew. Worth drinking.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Disappointing. Bottle. Almost no aroma. Deep brown old ale colour with almost no head. Thin malty flavour, Thin biscuity finish.