Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Almost black body... nearly white head. Slight smokiness in the weak aroma. Watery palate, but a good roasted malt flavor is there. Easy to drink as well.
Mansquito (19309) reviewed Ridge Runner Ale from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Really dark amber color. Smei-thick off-white head. Vague slightly fruity malt smell. Similar taste. Snickers taste: caramel/chocolate. Not really complex for a barley wine.
Mansquito (19309) reviewed Whitetail Ale from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Foamy white head with clear pale body. Bready aroma. This is not a wheat ale as far as I can tell. It is what it says it is on the bottle, a golden ale. Basically, it is a hoppy, though not that hoppy beer, with a modicum of complexity... not a wheat ale...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Courtesy of Beerlando. This is probably the second longest beer name I’ve rated and entered to date (first being McGuire’s I’ll Have What the Gentleman on the Floor is Having, BW). Pours deep gold with lasting white head. The aroma has green spice hops, mild malts and more green (wet hops maybe) hoppiness. The flavor is the same as the nose with greenish wetish tasting hops that are both floral and mildly spicy. About midway the bitter hoppiness peaks. Into the finish and after taste the malt and hop notes fade evenly away.
jake65 (5819) reviewed Ridge Runner Ale from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Goldtwins - Thanks! Pours a dark amber with a medium off-white head. Nice lacing. Aroma is sweet with malts and dark fruits. Pleasant. Flavor is caramel and chocolate, rather roasty and no hops or alcohol present. Starts off a bit wet before the tail of roasty malts. Easily drinkable, yet easily forgetable.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Farmer's Brown from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a large tan head. Aroma of nuts, malt and very little else. Medium-bodied; Strong pungent raisins and nutmeg in the taste with malt and yeast rounding out the flavours. Aftertaste shows a bit more promise than most browns - this has some sugars and isn’t overly nutty. Overall, a better-than-average brown that should be sampled by those who don’t like nuts in their browns. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 29-September-2007.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed The Riddler? from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bomber drunk on 8/24/07
Another very nicely conditioned bottle, with a humongous, rather dense, well-retained head and moderate lacing. Head is a chalky-beige while the body is a dark amber-mahogany. Clarity is medium-high to high.
Sweet caramel-like malts in the nose are joined by mild esters and somewhat-more-than-mild phenols, lending a black and white pepper-like nose. Breadiness sits on the end, with hints of roast and chocolate that keep things quite dry. As it warms/breathes the sweetness gets a bit stronger, and that maltiness gets a bit more sloppy, lending too much breadiness and an almost bittersweet caramel-vanilla note. Too much yeast activity without the requisite bottle refermentation to help smooth things out (no yeast to re-uptake all the phenols and other biproducts). Medium strength of aroma, light alcohol vapors on the finish.
Rather basic, aromatic-like malts lend caramel and some touches of raisin and roast, while creamy-sweet vanilla and honey notes are too sweet with warming and give way to strong phenolic spiciness, bordering astringency, on the finish. Due to the carbonation, the texture is strong however, with fairly tight carbonation. Gets too bready and yeasty on the finish (with minerals and chalkiness that don’t seem appropriate), however, and there’s some overt alcohol as well. Rather uninspiring, pseudo-Belgian in my book.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured a dark, thick deep brown with a thin white head. I was expecting Christmas-y and Holiday aromas, what I got was the nose of a standard bock, malty and sweet with hints of brown sugar. Sweet and drinkable flavor, malty, sugary, touches of biscuit, clove, and nuts. This was a very standard dunkle, I’m surprised it hasn’t had better ratings. If you can still find them, grab one and see for yourself. My 300th rating!!
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2007 bomber drunk on 7/18/07
First of all if this isn’t bottle conditioned, this is one hell of an appearance. Huge, cascading, dense tan head is very stubborn and provides quite nice lacework. Body is a dark brown with deep violet tints on the edges. Clarity is medium-high to high.
I don’t know if this is a fresh batch of bottles (this beer was first released quite a while ago), but it certainly tastes like they put a fresh batch of anise in it, and lots of it. The classic "over-spiced beer that would otherwise be quite delicious". This texture stands first and foremost as the best trait here and would probably hold up against some of the better bottled Belgian beers. Tight carbonation in perfect amounts creates a creamy, soft mouthfeel. Behind the anise is well-attenuated, lightly crackery malt with caramel and toffee drizzled on for good measure and balance. No tacky yeast, not even that estery or phenolic (though this amount of spice would probably dominate any actual phenols in the beer). It does get a bit thin and dry by the finish, not just due to the spicing, but also from some stronger-than-average alcohol warmth. Clove phenols do emerge in time, further drying things.
Aroma is lightly sweet (caramel, raisins, sweet dough) and the malt mixes with the spice to produce almost a pumpernickel/cardamon sort of note. Not as dominated by the spice, is the aroma, but like the flavor, there is some latant alcohol sharpness with warming/breathing on the finish.
Perhaps after a year in the cellar it would lose some of the anise flavor, but the beer is already quite dry and I’m not positive the dark malts wouldnt oxidize prematurely as well. Commendable.
The deviation on the ratings thus far is very interesting...
notalush (7362) reviewed Infusco from Rock Art Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Wow, just when I was about to give up on this brewery forever, they go and make this - dark burgundy pour, with a small ring of white lace - lightly smokey aroma, with notes of berries, leather, and some spicy character - crisp and somewhat tart, with notes of raspberry and other fruit skins - hints of cocoa, cloves, anise - a gentle, woody smoke flavor mingles intself in throughout - notes of cinnamon and dried flowers - alcohol warmth compliments the wood and smoke flavors - this is a really great beer, and is most certainly the best Rock Art I’ve ever had - if only more of their beers were this good.