Old Tempest Ale
Lightning Brewery in Poway, California, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular|
Score
6.65
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From a 22 oz bottle shared at home on boxing day. Pours a clear copper with an off white head. Sweet caramel nose. Flavors of butterscotch and caramel. Smoot sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2013
at 14:03
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap. Pours with a clear bronze hued body with a small off-white head. Aromas are fruity, molasses, dried fruits, dates, caramel, toffee. Rich smelling. Vanilla custard. Low isoamyl acetate. Flavors are sweet, banana bread, vanilla. Soft but noticeable bitterness. Fruity esters and some maple notes. Thicker bodied, slightly syrupy. Low carbonation with a well hidden ABV.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Oct 2012
at 14:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared by BrewEngineer at the 12th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering on 9/18/10. Thanks! Pours a hazy orange-brown color with nearly no head. Aroma of caramel apple, toffee, cinnamon, anise and a doughy note. The taste is caramel, toffee, apple, plum, anise and some booze. Fairly sweet. Medium-full bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2010
at 11:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
From Brewengineer @ 12th Richmond Gathering: Triple Sec, cashew, and maraschino cherry aroma. Cloudy orange. Whole orange flavor with cashews at midpalate. Alcohol evident. Classic old ale.
Tried
on 22 Sep 2010
at 20:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle courtesy of BrewEngineer at the 12th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering on 09/18/2010. Somewhat hazy orange body with a small creamy white head. Sweet caramel and earthy malt aroma. Big caramel flavor with some earthy malt and hops. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2010
at 14:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Courtesy of jdubFL. Pours copper with thin off white head. The appearance of the body seems light for the style. The aroma is malts, tangelo, toffee, a mild level of boysenberry dark fruitiness and faint bitter pine hops. The taste is pine hops, tangelo, grapefruit, sweet dark fruity esters, apricot and ripe red apples. Pretty nice with a hoppy west coast take on the style.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2010
at 14:11
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured a murky orange-amber color with a small white head. The aroma was sour, nutty, fruity and a bit rough. The favor was tangy and fruity with light pineapple and grapefruit notes. The finish was long, sweet and fruity. Fairly thick. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2009
at 14:55
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
Big thanks goes out to treyrab for this special brew! Had the pleasure of sampling this at the 7/9/2009 Pittsburgh RB tasting extravaganza (PGHRBEXT) at the Sharp Edge Creekhouse. It will be a long time, if ever I see a spread of bottles like I did there. I am not good enough for the beers that were that we served! For example, how about this beer; old tempest! Floating things in the otherwise brownish cloudy pale ale. Old alky aroma of fruit and whisky. Taste is somewhat older alky soaked fruit as well. Strong back of throat bitter feeling builds thru the session. Way too strong for this lager lover. Mouth coating to an extent. Seems to be higher than the 9% listed here. Barely any carbonation. Long bitter alky linger. This beer is more complex and beyond my rating ability, thanks for the experience Trey!
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2009
at 12:46
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Hazy amber beer with a big dark cream colored head. Toffee, earth, caramel, and stone fruit aroma. Big stone fruit flavor with caramel. Medium body. LIngering stone fruit/summer fruit with toffee. There was this undertlying earthy, slightly ropey flavor that got bigger and more annoying and I’m pretty sure the bottle was lightly infected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2008
at 18:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sort of an orange/amber color with a 3-finger beige head - rather frothy. Strong fruit aromas - almost like kiwi or strawberry with yeast spice. Body is medium and the carbonation is very frothy. It’s a bit astringent, a little bready, lightly yeasty, and fruity in a berry, but not citrus, way. Finish is not all that dry, but it fits the style. Pretty good drink. Kind of earthy/fruity.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2008
at 20:04