Anders37 (30296) reviewed XXX Warlock from Bristol Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours a black color with no head. Has a sweetish malty soy and caramel aroma with some hints of licorice and honey. Sweetish warming roasted malty caramel and honey flavor with hints of toffee and some weak hints of coffee. Has a warming roasted malty chocolate and toffee finish with some hints of honey in the aftertaste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle via a trade with jbye4334. Pours with a small white head and a hazy golden body. Aroma of honey, caramel, cereal and bready. Taste is cardboard, wet grain and watery. Light bubbles.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle via a trade with jbye4334. Pours with a hazy, deep brown body and a large, off-white head. Aroma of coffee, cinnamon, bready, chocolate. Taste is nutty, coffee and lightly vegital. Creamy carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle via a trade with jbye4334. Pours with a small white head and a golden body. Aroma is grassy, buttery, grainy. Taste is grainy, bitter, honey, light orange. Medium carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle via a trade with jbye4334. Pours with a fading off-white head over a hazy brown body. Aroma of earth, tobacco, vegital and caramel. Taste is tea, tobacco, pepper and caramel. Light bubbles, dry finish.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Compass IPA from Bristol Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle via a trade with jbye4334. Pours with a small head and a hazy golden body. Aroma of citrus, hoppy, caramel. Taste is hoppy, with husky grain. Citrusy and lightly herbal. Medium carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle via a trade with jbye4334. Pours with a large white head over a hazy golden body. Aroma is a fresh hand full of hops. Citrus and some light crystal. Taste is hoppy, honey and citrus. Medium bubbles. A solid pale ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
2009 bottle thanks to jbye4334. Pours with a small and fading tan head over a very deep mahogany to ruby body. Aroma is quite pungent with dark fruits, raisins, toffee, port, sherry, cocoa, chocolate, plums, rum cake. Some oatmeal raisin cookie. Alcohol, dark fruits, sherry and a bit of soggy malts (wet dog) on the flavor. Decently sweet and decadent up front. Long duration, slightly bitter finish. Some bitter dark fruit and bitterness from tannin extraction from the grain. Full bodied. Alcohol is noticeable, but has mellowed enough so that it is not burning or presents itself as fusel. Full weighted mouthfeel, light bubbles and syrupy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
After a good experience with their IPA, I picked this one up, and I’m kind of sorry I did - huge diacetyl bomb, both in the nose and flavor - the sad thing is, it tastes intentional - there are some plum notes, roasted nuts, a mild bitterness - there is some decent stuff happening, but the diacetyl is a huge distraction - too bad.
notalush (7339) reviewed Compass IPA from Bristol Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cloudy orange brew - a thin ring of soapy lace - a nice mix of chinook and cascade in the nose, mixing with a balancing malt sweetness, creating complex notes of citrus - medium to low carbonation - fairly potent bitterness, with quite a bit of floral, grassy hops - nicely balanced by moderate malt sweetness - nothing original, nothing exceptional, just a very well-executed ipa.