Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at Leightons place, 19/01/2017. Huge thanks to Leighton for this one. A reddy mahogany brown coloured pour with a fine tan halo. Aroma is woody vinegar, red grape, woody, spicy. Flavour is composed of semi sweet and tangy sour, woody sour, hint of vinegar tangy red fruit. Palate is semi sweet, moderate carbonation, . Ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a hazy brown color with a small quickly dieing head. No lacing.
The aroma starts off with some toast and earthy notes. Ginger comes through after a bit of warming.
The flavor takes the ginger spice to try and blend with the earthiness and the sweetness. It somewhat does. Spicy ginger to earthy aftertaste with the same sort of finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Ginger isn’t too strong and doesn’t wreck my palate - moveable spicy notes. Harshness seems contained.
Overall, as an English strong ale, well, somewhat. As far as creativity is concerned, I’d say this was good as I’m a big fan of ginger. Luckily, Bent Hill didn’t do something outrageous. I think I tend to like their beers more when they don’t overly do the ingredients.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Beet Red Ale from Bent Hill Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured into a becher pint glass, the appearance was a soft transparent amber color with a thin finger’s worth of foamy head that quickly dissipates leaving a messy lace running all around the glass.
The aroma starts with a sweet soily sugar/red beet maltiness. Some light caramel malts blend in nicely.
The flavor leans to the sweet side and becomes fairly vegetal like real red beets. Red beet-like aftertaste and a quick sweet to earthy finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Carbonation runs fairly low with a smooth vegetal feel on my tongue.
Overall, did they use red beets in this brewing of this beer? Haha, I think they did and not only did this beer taste like I was drinking red beets, I would say this was done pretty well. Interesting take on an amber ale.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Lavender Porter from Bent Hill Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured into a nonic pint glass, the appearance was a dark brown color with a thin crisp white foamy head that dissipated immediately and leaving no trace of lace.
The aroma starts off with the roasty coffee to cocoa bean while infusing some floral lavender-esue qualities.The flavor yields to the sweetness and allows a decent roastiness to it.
The flavor takes has some semi-sweet qualities about her. Lingering sweet floral buttery smooth cocoa powder-esque aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Mild carbonation felt good.
Overall, lavender porter?!? Sure, I can feel better I guess
CLW (16859) reviewed Maple Red Ale from Bent Hill Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Arbads Grill, 4 oz sample. Deep red / brown color, thin white head. Aroma is sublte maple, weak earthy malt, yeast. Flavor is a complete copy of the aroma. Body is lean, finish is abrupt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Poured into an English pint glass, the appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated evenly and distributed some lace bere and there.
The aroma centers around some coffee bean, caramel, toast, Apple fritters, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and roast. Light chocolate malt underneath.
The flavor leans to the sweet side and adds a light vinegar touch to it. Spices rub against the vinegar in the aftertaste drying out in the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Slightly hard to quaff all of the way down due to the vinegar-esque acidic sharpness going on. Carbonation feels fine.
Overall, what is it with Bent Hill and not cleaning their tanks or lines? Come on, BH, I really don’t think the vinegar was intentional.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
375ml bottle, picked up at the brewery, just shy of a year ago. Very dark brown. Halo of lasting, tan head. Nose has a vinous tang. Savoury smoke. Sweet smoke. Some fudgy chocolate. Some vegetal notes. Plenty of cinammon spice. Taste is fairly tart and vinegary. Some sweetness. Thin body. Some acidity. Finish has a decent chocolatey vibe, but that acidity runs throughout, and overwhelms somewhat. Good beer in there, somewhere.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was dark hazy muddy brown color. A ton of floaters wandered throughout the beer. One finger white head that dissipated immediately. Barely any lace.
The aroma takes on fresh \"green\" tobacco leafy rawness flowing against a soft malt backbone. Bitter \"green\" grassy hops bite into the midsection of this aroma to try and balance.
The flavor brings the soft sweet malt to blend with the sweet hop portion. Bitterness doesn’t seem to want to shoulder the malt, so it mostly stays separated and forcing a sticky raw and chewy aftertaste with the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a pure medium on the body, must be hop floaties (for an AIPA, I don’t think anyone is going to complain about the body on this beer).
Overall, hmmmm...well, in a world full of AIPA’s, is this worth coming back to, probably not. If I wanted something similar in hop profile, I’d seek Hogback’s Coffin Factory.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Maple Red Ale from Bent Hill Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a burnt red color with a sly transparent murkiness. Slim finger’s worth of white foamy head quickly dissipated adequately. Spider web filmy lace.
The aroma starts with some normal malty nuttiness. And then some sweet maple to slight toffee tones.
The flavor leans sweet through the maple sweetness. Rolls right on through into the aftertaste bringing the nuttiness. Finishes sweet and wet and smooth.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionable smooth feel to it. Carbonation rides light.
Overall, this was an interesting Irish red ale. I guess Bent Hill pulled it off and without infection. Fair enough.