Ale of the Hermit
Hermitage Brewing Company in San Jose, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.31
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sample at Tied House. The beer is a slightly hazy dark amber color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Hops, citrus and malt in the nose. Medium-bodied with flavors of piney hops, citrus and grainy malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a short resiny hops aftertaste. Average overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap. Pours clear reddish amber, small creamy beige head, nice lacing. Aroma is faint herbal, cedar, caramel. Flavor is same, baseball and woody. Medium boss
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, caramel, moderate hoppy, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet, light light acidic and moderate to light light heavy bitter with a long duration, fruity, caramel, dusty hops, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111105]
saxo (29673) reviewed Ale of the Hermit from Hermitage Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is brown. Aroma and taste are caramel, malt and not that many hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ Ulfborg, Early Winter Tasting, 2011. Pours unclear amber with a small bubbly head. Pepper, yeast, fruit, cinnamon, peach, vanilla. Medium bodied. Dry and bitter end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Clear dark amber with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel and hops. Flavour is malt, caramel, fruit, little acid, hops, little citrus and toffee.
yngwie (24083) reviewed Ale of the Hermit from Hermitage Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. An unclear, dark amber beer with a quite small, light beige head. Piney, citrus-peelish aroma with caramel maltyness. Seems to be a bit old this one. Medium body, quite dry, with flavors of caramel malts, citrus peel and some, but not enough, bitterness. Bitterness and caramel in the finish. Not very interesting this one. Not bad, but just uninteresting. 111105
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear dark amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet malty, caramel, a little cough syrup and moderate hoppy - grapefruit and pine. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 051111
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
50cl bottle pours clear amber with copper hues and tan head. The aroma is an odd mix with sort of sour mash mixing with spicy oak followed by muted pine hops and aged malts. Hmm. The taste is a mix of grapefruit like hops, sour mash, spicy oak and then it gets a touch sweet with sugary maltiness. Into the finish mild fruity notes like a tangelo tang come to the surface.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Deep copper coloured body with a thick tan head and a nice bronze coloured tint - very nice looking, actually. Aroma of nice fresh yet light english hops, grass, hay, light malt and a touch of sweetness. Light-bodied; A touch of a peach or apricot flavour at first with some malt, a touch of caramel, some toffee and the faintest of hints of hops - not much at all though. Aftertaste is quite mild with some malt, a touch of toffee and not much else. Overall, a pretty bland and uninspired beer - definitely not an IPA, closer to an English Pale, but I think even that would be off quite a bit. Regardless, not really worth sampling, unless you came from across the country and wanted to pick up random beers. I sampled this 50 cL bottle purchased from BevMo in Walnut Creek, California on 19-March-2011 sampled at home in Washington on 14-June-2011.