The Great Impression Stock Ale
Dust Bowl Brewing Company in Turlock, California, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
7.24
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a beautiful mahogany color from a bottle, thick fresh cream colored head dissipates leaving minimal lacing. Aroma is real licorice, real root beer. Flavor is similar, starts off almost cloyingly sweet (trying the beer fresh) but fades off into a pleasant bitterness. Pretty good beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
Geez, sure wish I would have gotten more than one of these to seller after I had this one and see what they taste like in the future but oh well. This one has a great multi yeasty nose with a little fruit some alcohol chemical aromaz but also lots of malt characteristics. Nice appearance with a fairly long lasting head. Flavor is like aroma. Again more emphasis on the malts. But on the subtle yet complex way.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22 Oz bottle poured. Much thanks to Keven for sharing this. Pours a copper caramel color with an active fizz head. Malty aroma with a caramel and booze presence. A lot of spice. Brown sugar too to pair. Smooth front flavor with a biting finish. Pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bomber from Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours a dark blood orange color. No head. Smattering of beige foam. Aroma is sort of brown sugar/treacle, but the sugar is reminding of bacon. Weird. Full bodied. Flavor is bitter, tho lightly so, followed by treacle/brown sugar, with something almost woodily astringent, then back to the malt. There’s heat, but it’s rather elusive. Finally, smacking my mouth and considering the origins of the universe, I can imagine some baking chocolate lurking in the nether regions. I’m liking this very much.
Earlier Rating: 2/22/2013 Total Score: 4
Tap at University of Beer. Pours a very dark ruby with a ceamy beige head. Aroma is rather plummy with some dark malt that has chocolate notes. Med + body. Flavor is rather pitted fruit and I think the malt has a bit of chocolate. Plum seems to be the fruit. Heat, but only in the gullet. Very nice.