Cheek Squeezer (Tart Cherry)
Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.71
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A light burgundy red ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with cherry pulp, light acidity, light mineral notes, pleasant. In mouth, tart mix of ground cherry, lemon, light lactic notes, pleasant. On tap at brewery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Goblet at the brewery, pours a clear orange with a ring of white head. Nose has lemon juice, sweat, brine, some white cherry. Flavor is a little weaker, some malt, tart cherry, orange rind, sweat, lemon juice. Finishes tart and medium bodied. 6 3 6 3 12
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2016, [ Great British Beer Festival 2016 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Throwback Cheek Squeezer (Tart Cherry) ].Light unclear medium orange yellow colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, orange - tangarine, light sour cherry notes. Flavor is moderate sweet, light acidic and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, tart tangarine - orange, pale malt, sweet malt, gooseberry - grapes, light sour - tart cherry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20160809] 7-2-7-3-14
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught at the brewery, 9/16/17.
Shimmering, hazy-cherry pulp red with a small, fizzling, pink-tinged head atop.
Mostly tart cherry juice in the nose with grain, cracker, light lactic acid and a bit of black pepper or pit-like character. It's light, dry, fairly cherry-driven and not overly acidic/lactic, though it's a bit lacking on beer character, being mostly fruit acid from the nose.
In the mouth it's more of the same. More of a spritzy, lightly tart (mostly from the cherry) fruit beer with some astringency on the finish and a very sparse, cracker-like malt profile that, as with most of their beers, just needs a little more softness/depth to the malt. Otherwise, it's clean, vibrant, quenching/refreshing and well-done on the cherry aspect.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask gravity @ GBBF 2016. Pours a hazy orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity spicy yeasty weak sour cherry aroma. Fruity sour cherry flavor with weak yeasty hints. Has a fruity weak sour cherry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours a light amber from a tap, big tart sourness, very little cherry and a little wheat biscuit flavor, not much aroma. A little too tart without any additional rounding out in the mouth, but still a good beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap at Thirsty Moose Manchester Mostly clear burnt golden color without much of a head by the time it arrived at my table. Light lemony tart cherry aroma with faint bready malt. Sweet bread up front light lemony cherry flavor light lingering tartness in the finish. Not bad but not really all that tart.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at GBBF ’16, day one, 09/08/16. Orange golden with a moderate off white covering. Nose is light citric peel, balsa wood, straw, melon. Taste comprises tarte gooseberries, light cherry skins, straw, bread dough, light wood. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok simple sour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cask at GBBF 2016, Day 1 - London. Pours clear gold with a frothy, white crown. Tart and citrusy, with suggestions of lemon and tangerine. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Good and quenching in the finish, with bright and tangy orange juice. Great stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at GBBF 2016. It pours hazy old with prett much no head. The aroma is soft, sweet, grainy, vanilla, roasted pineapple, nectarine, candy and tinned fruit. The taste is crisp, tart, good mouth-pucker, sour pineapple, lemon sherbet, nectarine and a touch of acidity with a dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Prett bright and fruity (although not cherry!). A touch more condition would have been good. Nice.