Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at Barcade. Yesasy owe, biscuity malts, oranges and peaches. Sweet and spicy, with a bit of pepper and a light tart edge. bitter finish. Ok.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention. Tropical fruit aromas. Soft with mango and passionfruit front to back.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft @ Cape Ann Brew Pub. Aroma of grapefruit, citrus rind and dough in the nose. Flavor is grapefruit dominate with light bready malt, with sweet and juicy fruits, subtle zesty spice toward the backend of the sip. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Fairly dry texture with lingering grapefruit rind bitterness. A decent IPA overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft @ Cape Ann Brew Pub. Pale yellow color with thick white, suds for head. Nose is orange peel, banana and apple hints. Flavors starts with fruit (oranges and banana) with a body of malted wheat. Finishes with light yeast and citrus. Body is light with a nice carbonation level. Shows a fruity hop when it gets warmer. Overall mostly standard but it is refreshing and true to the style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft @ Cape Ann. Bright gold unfiltered color. Last head retention. The aroma is grain, Saaz or grassy type hop with a nice honey that coats the nose and flavor.
This is a finely made pilsner. Pale grain base body with the honey well integrated I to the flavor. Subtle sweetness that coats the tongue. The carbonation is lovely enough to not make the honey to thick or syrupy. Light hop in there to help balance it all out. Jeez, if I could brew something like this at home I would drink it all summer long. And that is what you can do with this brew. Crazy easy to drink if you want to drink two or ten of them.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Draft @ Cape Ann. Sample glass shows a dark dirty brown color with black center. Small head retention. Aroma is burnt barley, lactose sugar and traces of chocolate.
The flavor is identical to the aromas. The only complaint I have about this stout is the ultra thin body. I understand that sweet stouts are low gravity and low ABV but the body is watery and thin. The flavor itself is pretty good and as long as your body agrees with milk sugar this stout is ok.
CLW (16859) reviewed Fisherman's Tea Party from Cape Ann Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draft @ Cape Ann. Cloudy copper pour in a sample glass. Nose smells like a smoked beer with hint of herbal tea. Malts mixed with smoke.
Let me start off with saying that I don’t like smoke in my brews. German Rauchbier will never be a style I choose to drink. This tasted much more like a smoked beer rather than a Barley Wine. Smoked bacon, cured meat with a like herbal tea mixture under this smoke. The finish is day old camp fire ashes. The brewers description does say it is smokey but this is the farthest thing from a barely wine I have ever tasted. Sorry I just don’t enjoy day old campfire and smoked meat in my brew. That is what you will find here.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft @ Cape Ann. Served year round since it’s July and I just drank it a few hours ago. Light amber color with thin head in a shaker glass. Aroma is caramel malt, toasted grain and light lager yeast.
Flavor is again toasted grain, caramel malt, mild hints of fruit and light brown sugar. The carbonation gives a creamy texture that ends sweet. All malt in this brew, as it should be. For the style is just above average and I’m glad the spice was taking away from the recipe several years back. It is a nice, straight forward example of the style and not overly complex. German lager loves will not get to excited but it should do you just fine if you like this style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Reviewed from notes.
Most of this six pack was poured into a pint glass except for two bottles that were poured into weizen glass. Obviously, the head was larger in the weizen as expected.
The rest of the appearance goes like this: glossy/hazy yellow color with a sof white head, adequate foamy lacing.
The aroma smelled like soured bananas with some light apple underneath.
The taste was basically the same.
On the palate, this one sat fairly light. Sessionable? Sure if I wanted to suck down a soured banana.
Overall, uh..honestly I really didn’t care for this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance had a decent hazy amber color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about thirty seconds.
The smell had the malts up front with a super light piney/spicing in the background.
The taste was mainly sweet through the malts and the hops maintained their distance.
On the palate, this sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability.
Overall, not a bad IPA as it could be construed closer to the English side of IPA’s.