fonefan (84534) reviewed Back Road Stout from Millstream Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 12fl.oz.Clear dark red brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, vanilla. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (220808)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 12fl.oz.Clear medium amber orange color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, brown sugar, roasted notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate malt bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. (220808)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of pepsican. Pours an opaque dark brown with an orange hue and a small light brown head. Sweetish aroma of hard roasted malt. Quite full-bodied for such a low ABV beer with plenty of sweetish roasted malts a whiff of coffee and an edge of dried fruits. Has a light malt bitterness in the finish. 220808
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of pepsican. Clear amber golden with a small off-white head. Sweetish caramel in the nose. Medium body with fairly sweet caramel, but basically no hop presence. Sweet and quaffable. 220808
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of pepsican. Pours a very hazy pale golden with a small white head. Tart and citrusy nose. Light-bodied with notes of citrus and an astringent and sourish finish. Clearly infected. 180808
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Maifest from Millstream Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of pepsican. Hazy amber golden with a small white head. Aroma of overripe fruit. Medium body with sweet caramel and overripe fruit. The finish is dry. 180808
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12 oz. bottle. For the near-warning about how mild this is for an IPA, it actually pours out a nice, rich amber color. Bubbly head, and some particles swirling about in the body: yeast dregs or bits of unfiltered hop pellet? A good hoppy IPA smell with plenty of Cascade in evidence (although in this hop drought, there may be some substitutions at play). Very first taste impression is peppermint, then that’s gone. Following is a sharply bitter hop note with herbal backing. Plenty of malt here, but despite their description, the hops do get your attention. Notes of orange further down, and a whiff of alcohol to follow. Yeah, this is a good an IPA as I’ve found brewed in my home state; though I haven’t had as many Iowa beers as I’d like yet. Date notch suggests this is maybe two months old, so be sure to look for fresh stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
New notes 11/6/2013: This is rebranded as Hefe ’R’ Weissen (with cows on the label, get it, and the abv is up to 5.6%. Chris Priebe at Millstream said it’s basically the same recipe, the abv is the current average efficiency, and they switched to Millenium and Willemette hops due to availability. I get the same hefeweizen esters in the nose, but it’s kind of welcome since I didn’t get to too many hefes this season. Cloudy hefe yellow, a big rocky head. Taste is fronted mostly by citrus. Esters are not up front on the tongue, leaving room for golden, toasty malt, a bit of sourness that seems to come from the wheat (is some of it undermodified?). Would like to see this pouring from a tap in my area, I think it’d be better than from a bottle. Original rating, 6/4/7/3/13=3.3; 9/10/2008: 12 oz. bottle. A bit darker yellow than the average hefe; bubbly head that dissipates quickly. First nose impression is of orange, then clove. That clove and orange stays around in the taste, gives it a different character that I kind of like. Good-sized malt bill adds to color and taste. Some hefe banana esters come in after that. A more defined sharp German hop profile than I usually get with hefes, too. Some yeast taste toward the bottom, though there’s no sediment to suggest bottle conditioning. Different and interesting.
yngwie (24278) reviewed Back Road Stout from Millstream Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. A dark brown beer with a small, tan head. Chocolate, roasted malt and some coffee in the aroma. A bit one-dimentional maybe, but quite nice. The flavor has beef-stock, coffee, chocolate, a little touch of butterscotch and a coffee bitter finish. Medium body, quite dry, yet with a sweetish feeling. Sweetness, coffee and some butterscotch as well, in the finish. A quite nice one, but nothing more. Easy to drink, but maybe a bit dry for an oatmeal stout. (080822)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. It pours a clear, deep golden body with a small off-white head. Malty nose with some caramel, umami and something reminiscent of the fat in cooked sheep. Doesn’t sound very good, but actually it was a quite good one. Malty caramel flavor with umami and roasted malt. The finish is much the same, caramel, roasted malt and umami. Medium body. A nice and quite surprising lager, nothing more. (080822)