Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22oz bottle to myself on 5th May 2016 at a friends BBQ while in California. Guess the colour: correct, it’s brown, the head off-white and lasting. Semi-sweet with malty molasses ruling both the nose and taste: failed to find any traces of oak chips, be they French or American. Some chocolate notes can be found though: interesting and I enjoyed the beer even if it didn’t go with Ribs and hot weather.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed KrHOPen IPA from Evans Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22oz bottle to myself on 5th May 2016 at a friends BBQ while in California. Misty golden pour, huge, deep, white blanket for a head. hops dominate the nose and taste, it’s bitter too. The malts are hidden for me, my palate couldn’t detect any influence anyway: still enjoyed the beer though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a almost black with a large tan head. Aroma is more of a bitter bakers chocolate then a sweet mile chocolate with a little roast and alcohol in there. Flavor is again more of a bakers chocolate than a sweet chocolate. I don’t get any cocoa nibs or lactose but it dose have some coffee and again this is way more bitter than sweet. Solid but not a huge chocolate presence.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
1st May 2016, this beer is all over San Diego Zoo; so I had a draft pint when my legs began to buckle and I was all zoo’ out. Golden pour with an unlasting white head. Mild honey notes in both the aroma and taste, pleasant enough when exhausted on a warm, sunny Southern Californian afternoon. God, I needed this!
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Chocolate Porter from Evans Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle. Pours deep mahogany, medium tan head, dissipates quickly, decent lacing. Aroma is tart, fecal, funky, infected. Flavor is medium tart, roasted malts and fecal hints, cardboard. Not as bad as I feared from the smell, but pretty unfortunate. Watery texture, light body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Bottleworks, Seattle
Hazy light amber color with compact head. Wonderful aroma, pungent hops (but less than usual Nelson Sauvin), perfume and talc, Brett. Lean body; mild malt and toffee flavor, some fruitiness, Bretts, bitter orange peel, strong bitterness, astringent final.
Clearly infected. And it worked out well.
Ferris (26026) reviewed IPA from Evans Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle - Funky with lemon and grass. Floaties in gold with a decent head. Up front funk and bitterness with big lemongrass finish. Actually quite nice in it oddity.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a very cloudy orange with a medium beige head and loads of sediment. Aroma is very earthy and yeasty, with bubblegum and rock candy. Doesn't smell like an IPA in any way. Flavour is fucked up, with loads of the Nelson Sauvin hops, maybe a bit of brett, and white wine. Almost tastes infected, but more like a saison. Strange stuff - it tastes very good, just totally off-style. Hard to get my brain away from thinking it's an IPA. It's alright.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Large bottle consumed on my daughters balcony in Newport Beach on 12th March 2014. Light amber colour with a good, lasting crown of bubbles. The aroma was of mild hop notes and light maltiness, the taste more subtle than robust, and again a gentle blend of hop and malts. fairly smooth feel to the whole thing and I preferred it to most of ’the in your face’ over hopped brews that seem to be the norm in California.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
8.5% abv 22oz bomber IIPA for under $5? Nice. The bottle pours with a crystal clear copper body that supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts, some crystal malts and a bit of caramel to go along with faint cherry like fruity esters mixing with citrus flavored gummy bear hoppiness. The taste begins with some fruity sweetness that’s citrus hard candy hoppiness mixed with sweet malts and crystal malt sweetness. To midway a pleasing light degree of earthy tea leaves surfaces along with an upwelling of faint cherry like fruity esters. Into the finish I realize there are moments here and there that have a resiny pine hoppiness. Overall this beer isn’t all that cohesive.