Friend Request
Jack's Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Stoneface Brewing CompanyFarmhouse - Bière de Garde Special Out of Production
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Score
6.59
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Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Friend Request from Jack's Abby Craft Lagers 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draught at City Tap, 2/2/17.
Amber-copper with some darker chestnut hues, a high clarity and a small, beige head atop showing moderate retention.
Smells rather old, stale, tired, full of dry, bready specialty malt, light red fruits and perhaps a touch of phenolic pepperiness. To its credit, this is nothing like expected; no American hop notes or much bitterness at all. Rather traditional, if a bit lacking of a rich maltiness.
Oxidized and too bready in the mouth with tired carbonation and a real lack of malt depth. An odd banana ester and some various nutty and peppery notes add some interest, I suppose. No alcohol or flaw. Jacks Abby’s beers oxidize extremely quickly regardless of bottle or keg serving.
DSG (25977) reviewed Friend Request from Jack's Abby Craft Lagers 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
[2/2/17] Draught at City Tap House in Boston. Cloudy amber. Stale hops, caramel, fruitiness, sweet, oxidized.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured from bottle thanks Willrunforbeer brown gold with a nice off white head. Aromas of orange bread yeast and spice. Taste is rye spice mild bannana and grain. Nice. --- Beer merged from original tick of Friend Request on 19 Nov 2016 at 14:25 - Score: 7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Keg pour into taster cup at NH Brewfest. Appearance is cloudy brown (like a dark cider), with minimal head, mild lacing, some sparkle. Aroma is yeast, caramel, sort of like a nut brown ale. Taste is malt dominant with minimal tart yeast. Palate is medium bodied with lively carbonation, thick texture and crisp, mildly sweet finish. Overall, pretty true to the style. I liked the Stoneface version of the collaboration better.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Bert’s Slightly hazy dirty golden color with a good sized bubbly off white head with moderate retention. Spicy light sweet bread on the nose. Sweet bready malt with subtle earthy spicy notes. Pretty damn good biere de garde.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours murky amber into a shaker. White head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Pumpernickel and pepper aromas. Medium bodied with bread and pepper upfront turing to mild licorice in the lasting finish.