Lead Feather
Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
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We’ve finalized a new Black Ale for Half Acre.
We can all sit on sun drenched patios and freely spill speed beer down our throats till paid transportation takes us home. You want to squirrel away a couple x-tra pales and head to yoga? No problem, Namaste.
But, there are times when fleshy black beer is the only thing that offers the necessary weight. Visiting your uncle’s machine shop to thread some pipe before hitting a dirt track sprint car race….? You might want to digest some Lead Feather Black Ale.
The might of big malts and rival hop use give Lead Feather capital dark properties. 6% ABV gives you time, but not at the expense of content.
Lead Feather Black Ale will live in the line up all year. You’ll find it on draft right now in our Tap Room and soon in bars around town. Come March, we’ll load it into our favorite 16 ounce aluminum vessel.
Find one and work it into your life.
We can all sit on sun drenched patios and freely spill speed beer down our throats till paid transportation takes us home. You want to squirrel away a couple x-tra pales and head to yoga? No problem, Namaste.
But, there are times when fleshy black beer is the only thing that offers the necessary weight. Visiting your uncle’s machine shop to thread some pipe before hitting a dirt track sprint car race….? You might want to digest some Lead Feather Black Ale.
The might of big malts and rival hop use give Lead Feather capital dark properties. 6% ABV gives you time, but not at the expense of content.
Lead Feather Black Ale will live in the line up all year. You’ll find it on draft right now in our Tap Room and soon in bars around town. Come March, we’ll load it into our favorite 16 ounce aluminum vessel.
Find one and work it into your life.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can sample at a tasting at troubles’s place. Thanks kerenmk. Black with a big tan head. Aroma of roast, some stale hops, and a bit of oxidation. Sweetish flavor, roasty, with some coffee, a bit oxidized, and bitterish stale hops. Medium-bodied. Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jul 2016
at 08:18
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a nice, four centimetre tall light brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, oatmeal, nuts, earth and a bit of piney hops - nice and pungent. Medium-bodied; Strong rich roasted malt flavours hit first with a good oatmeal and toast flavour coupled with some earthiness and a good bunch of pungent hops - almost borders the line of a Black IPA! Aftertaste shows some nice roast notes, a little lactose leftover and a superb hoppiness that shows good complexity throughout of the beer. Overall, a very nice beer - definitely one to try if you can find it, plus available in a tall can - nice! I sampled this sixteen ounce can purchased from Trader Joe’s in Chicago (Ontario Street), Illinois on 11-February-2016 for US$2,38 sampled at home in Washington on 05-May-2016.
Tried
from Can
on 06 May 2016
at 01:28
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ Mikkeller Bar, Aarhus, Denmark
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, cocoa and lactose. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long chocolate, caramel and cocoa finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, cocoa and lactose. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long chocolate, caramel and cocoa finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2016
at 02:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught @ Mikkeller Bar, Viktoriagade 8BC, kld., DK-1655 Copenhagen, Denmark. [ As Half Acre Lead Feather ].Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, sweet malt, dark malt. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, dark malt, chocolate, roasted. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20160122]
Tried
on 28 Feb 2016
at 05:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft @ Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty caramel hoppy aroma. Roasted malty caramel hoppy flavor. Has a roasted malty caramel and chocolate finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jan 2016
at 07:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pint can from Secret Santa 2015, thank you. Dark brown pour with a lingering tan cap. The aroma is roasted malt and a little smoky. Heavy roast flavor, a little smoke and bittersweet chocolate. Malt forward. Finished with a hint of chalk.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jan 2016
at 16:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap@Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen - black pour with beige head. Sweet and medium roasty aroma and taste, with some cocoa and caramel sweetness, nice on the palate, ashy lighty burnt malty nuance, smooth malty sweet finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jan 2016
at 10:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Slight roast malt in the nose. Black beer under a puffy stoutish head. Taste is like a roasty stout, perhaps with a bit of extra hop, in the ’Murican fashion. Roastiness and hops kind of detract from the total package for me.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2015
at 21:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can @ Mikkeller, Aarhus. Pours black with a tan head, lacings. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, expresso, dark chocolate. Flavor is malty, caramel, coffee, expresso, chocolate. Thin to medium body, average to lively carbonation. 281115
Tried
from Can
on 30 Nov 2015
at 13:21
6/10
Tried
on 30 Nov 2015
at 09:29