Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle pours a dull deep copper with gold hues and thin white head. The modest aroma offers up some tangy tart grapefruit and orange peel. It is on the timid side for the style. The taste has that easy drinkin’ nearly fresh quality with some tart grapefruit and tangelo peel mixing with faint sweet fruity esters. Into the finish it dries out some as a bit of roasted malts seems to be noticed.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Mojave Red from Indian Wells Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle pours clear dark reddish copper with thin off white head. The aroma offers up red apple and other dark fruity hard candy notes. The taste is sweet with malts and lots of sweet dark skinned fruity esters and a bit of sugary malt sweetened nuttiness. This is in no way offensive and as it warms it begins to deliver thin ribbons of caramel and roasted malts.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Sample at Ale Wine & Spirits in Powell on 02/09/2012. Pours dark brown with a medium light beige head that dissipates quickly. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Slight smoked malt in the nose. Light body with a dull smoky malt character and a vegetable flavor in the background. Below average overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
12oz bottle pours an innocent clear copper with thin white head. The aroma pulses with Sunkist Orange soda notes along with a thin ring of powdered sugar. The taste punishes the wary with sugary Sunkist Orange soda like notes that are fully enhanced by the above average level of carbonation. I succumbed and poured most of it down the drain. This is likely a good beer for people who are convinced they hate beer due to its beer-y flavors.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pours a cloudy yellow gold with a frothy white head. The aroma is fruit and cereal. Thin mouthfeel with a sour orange and tart. Not much going on with this one.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Purchased at Total Wine on my trip to Vegas. Pours a golden-orange colour with an off-white head and decent lace. Fresh pumpkin purée smell with biscuit malts and nice soft spices. Thin mouthfeel and the taste is pretty much the same as pumpkin filling for pies. Definitely the closest thing to fresh pumpkin spiced purée I had in a pumpkin brew.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
12oz bottle pours deep copper with weak off white head. The aroma is a little dusty and has dark fruity esters, dusty caramel malts, prunes and black berries as well as a bit of metal and more dustiness. The taste is also dusty and a bit astringent. I quickly pick up additional notes of prunes and dates. It slides toward earthiness, spoiled produce and some caramel too. OK, this isn’t that great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz bottle pours clear copper / gold with weak 30 second near white head. The aroma is big with winter time spices, pumpkin, graham cracker and an out of place sense of lime. The taste is similar starting with fairly bold winter spices and then quickly picking up pear like sweet fruity esteriness before the pumpkin notes join in the fray. This is an interesting brew that slides in and then out of cohesion as it meanders its way into the finish.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Silver Sun from Indian Wells Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle pours clear copper / gold with weak 30 second near white head. The aroma comes across with some floral hops and faint levels of spicy hops and a near yeasty sourness rimmed with tartness. The taste has a bit of floral hops bouncing around with sweet sugary malts and a thin ring of spicy hops. In the background the floral hops pull forward an odd sort of yeastiness comprised of tartness. Overall decent brew for what it is.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Big thanks to cbkschubert for taking one for the team and getting this thing. Thanks again Craig. Growler that is nearly 60oz too big pours out sort of brown with copper hues and virtually no head to speak of (so I won’t). The aroma is just bowl you over straight up booze with a combination of harsh whiskey and nose searing heat. The taste is similar as it basically only offers up various whiskey booze notes ranging from sweet candy like whiskey to harsh ‘out of a 99¢ 1 liter plastic jug’ whiskey. It goes downhill from there as you dare to consume more. So when you’re ‘spit balling’ about what beer to make next how did it end up being an amber lager into a barrel? It would be interesting if a style was picked that could stand up to this much barrel time and create a small semblance of balance.