Skeleton Crew
Foley Brothers Brewing in Brandon, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.15
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johnnnniee (7516) reviewed Skeleton Crew from Foley Brothers Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from my dad purchased in Mass. Slightly hazy light golden color with a huge frothy off white head that slowly recedes. Grassy earthy pine with bits of mango and citrus on the nose and a faint sweet bread underneath. Bits of alcohol at the edges. Pretty tasty DIPA
Chalumeaux (5240) reviewed Skeleton Crew from Foley Brothers Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from a 22-ounce bottle hazy orange with a fluffy wbite head. Aromas of tropical citrus floral hops light caramel and pine. Taste is light caramel orange floral hops and lingering pine bitterness.
Garrold (11502) reviewed Skeleton Crew from Foley Brothers Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap, at the brewery. Hazed gold. Decent, lasting, foamy, white head. Nose has fairly intense, dank and cheesy hop. Quite savoury, with lots of herby and floral notes. Some pine needle and ripe stone fruit. Taste is full on, dank bitterness. Some light sweetness, but it’s mostly a bruiser. Certainly easy drinking, though. Finish gets a little less bitter, and even dries out somewhat at the end.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Skeleton Crew from Foley Brothers Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draught at Worthy Kitchen, 5/21/16.
Light peach-tinted golden with a soft haze and a white head that steadily recedes to cover.
Heavy citra and/or simcoe character in the nose shows dry lemon peel, spicy pine, with woody, dank resin and white grapefruit. Light undercurrent of alcohol heat produces a rather stiff, intense impression overall. Not exactly bursting with soft juiciness and fruits.
The flavor is even more given to the hard, dry citrus rind and pine-like resin. Not exactly "sour" hop character, but approaching that and with a big alcohol character, as well. Very dry, with only dextrine-like body and little/no actual sweetness. Fairly engaging carbonation, at least, helps things somewhat, but there’s just too much hard, dry citrus and burning alcohol and resin. Very far from the Foley Brothers I enjoy. Seems they’re trying way too hard to make beers that they didn’t start out with. Beers I think serve them really well (lighter, more flavorful, drinkable beers).
It is a bit of a shame that the temptation or probably more correctly, near-requirement that a new brewery make New England style pale ales to compete is a reality. But I guess that’s brewing; adapt or fold. I really enjoyed their brown ale and ginger ale and their East Coast (not New England) style IPA when they started out and was surprised they made such a push to beers like this so quickly.
CLW (17000) reviewed Skeleton Crew from Foley Brothers Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at Worthy Kitchen for $8.00. Color is golden with thin head. Aroma is grassy, onion Mosaic or Galaxy hop profile.
The flavor leans on grassy with some light fruit. Body is medium with a dry texture. The only flaw seem to be the slap of alcohol after the sip. Still pretty nice but I was shocked at how high it was rated when I looked. Not a 4 rating by any sense of the imagination by my palate.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a burnt orange color with floaties roaming all around. Slim finger-ed white foamy head quickly dissipates. Filmy white rimmed lacing roams all around.
The smell started off with the sweet danky onion and then the sweet grassy tones riding into a delicate bitter pine underneath.
The taste was moderately danky sweet with the bitter pine still underneath. Sweet onion dankiness to piney bitterness in the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium in body sitting between the sipping to sessionable quality nicely. Carbonation hits spot on. Piney hops hit in the bitter portion to play with a nice harsh feel as a DIPA.
Overall, wow, Foley Brothers, I always knew they did the IPA/DIPA thing well, but this, just wow and a half! This just might be Foley Brothers’ best one!