Hay is for Horses
Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Gruit Regular|
Score
6.89
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Jow (8309) reviewed Hay is for Horses from Cambridge Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft at brewery for lunch orange gold pour and small sudsy head. Nose is herbal and oats. Tatsss of oats, honey, herbal, straw. Refreshing and earthy. Quite nice
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to radarsock! Pours slight hazy orange, medium creamy white head, dissipates slowly, nice lacing. Aroma is brett, citrus, grass. Flavor is light funk, citrus, oranges. Medium body. Not bad.
yespr (55501) reviewed Hay is for Horses from Cambridge Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
75 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow, no head. Aroma is fruity and slight wineous. Mild citric, smooth fruity.mellow. Lingering fruity and wineous finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours gold into a snifter. Head quickly recedes to nothing. Sourdough and tart fruit aromas. Soft with caramel, sour hay and summer fruit front to back.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle, bottled at Mystic/CBC bottling collab! Hooray for that! Fresh and drunk on 10/3/15.
I feel like CBC’s beers are almost always misunderstood and underappreciated and this is no exception. A very lovely, refreshing gruit, I thought. Definitely some acidity, soapiness and plentiful spice, but you just have to accept that when brewing with herbs and other non-malt adjuncts. It definitely is an acquired taste (or never-acquired taste) and I certainly see why hops caught on and completely took over.
Anyhow, the beer pours a copper color with good clarity and a full off-white head that immediately fizzles away to a ring (as is the case with most gruits, due to the oils and acids present).
Heathery-yarrow-like notes in the nose also divulge heavily dry grass, light bits of honey and plentiful floral aromatics. Bits of caramel and toffee, with plenty of minerals and light vanilla. No alcohol or flaw.
A mix of bittersweet and even sweet/sour with dry hay, grass, earth and light vanilla that is balanced by sweet toffee and caramel that in turn give way to floral and herbal spice and acidity. Some cidery/apple-like note linger with no alcohol or flaw. Again, though it would be nice to have a creamier, tighter carbonation, I think the herb/hay/honey is to blame for the texture, which is rather watery, with interludes of sticky maltiness. The carbonation is a bit fizzier than I’d like as well, but I’ve yet to see a gruit where this isn’t the case. Perhaps some wheat would have helped? Though that would have taken the focus off the hay, so who knows. Nonetheless, I like it and thought it was very successful.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Poured from bottle thanks Airforcehops amber orange color with a minimal head. Aromas of citrus straw and hints of caramel. Taste is sweet malt lemons brett and caramel. A tad overly sweet.
CLW (16859) reviewed Hay is for Horses from Cambridge Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750 ml purchased at Kappy’s Liquors. Danvers, MA. Amberish / orange color without any kind of head on the liquid. Aroma is oat forward with mild citrus and light caramel. Mild yeast.
Flavor is shows citrus, oats, mild caramel, with a grainy texture over the palate. A bit much in the caramel / toffee department. This brew is still drinkable with any main flaws, just a bit to sweet for me to really enjoy it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft. An amber beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, lemons, brett, and caramel, leading to a dry finish. Try with more hay, I like Herslevs hay beer a lot better, it gives you acidity.