gtaegeek (6356) reviewed Compass IPA from Bristol Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Nitro pint at the brewery. Pours a clear, amber color, with a lovely, massive, fine, nitro head. The nose is pine sap, caramel, musty straw, and rosemary. Fairly dry, with a bracing, sticky bitterness. Medium body, biting, and clingy. Nice, aggressive IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Taster at the brewery. Pours a clear, light amber color, with a medium, foamy, khaki head. The aroma is pine, orange peel, hay, rose, and biscuit. Sweet and malty, with a crisp, resinous bitterness. Medium body, a bit sticky, and clean. Reasonable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Taster at the brewery. Pours a clear, straw color, with a fair, foamy, white head. The aroma is cloves, rose, wet grass, and white bread. Sweet and malty, with a bright, noble bitterness. Light, crisp, and lively. Quality, enjoyable, warm weather beer.
TBone (30139) reviewed Compass IPA from Bristol Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can 330ml (Beer Hunters). Amber colour and beige head. Caramalt, pine in the nose. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Caramalt, some citrus, piney hoppy finish. Sweet ipa.
Hermod (17967) reviewed Compass IPA from Bristol Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
355ml can from Alko. Poured deep golden in color. Malty with some caramel, dark fruityness and some citrusy hoppiness. OK.
TET (6603) reviewed Compass IPA from Bristol Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
An amber beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has pine and caramel, light fruitness and wood. Taste has the same elements, pine, caramel, light fruitness, medium bitterness. Medium bodied. Could be more fruitful.
Taster @Great Americano Beer Festival. 22/09/2023. Color amarillo corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores frutales, citricos, lúpulo.
Taster @Great Americano Beer Festival. 22/09/2023. Color ambarino corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores malta, caramelo, cuerpo medio.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
I was fortunate to locate a 750 bottle of Tripel at Downtown Fine Spirits and Wines in Colorado Springs last month, by other sources it appears Bristol may not brew this beer any longer. No matter to me, I have it to sample and so I will. I take off the cage and remove the cork to a hearty pop. The view is a cloudy, dark gold followed by a decent but promptly settling head of almost white foam. The scent is appropriately decent with yellow fruit, yeast and biscuits. I take a taste and find apricots, citrus, white bread, hay and some earthiness. Equal measures of sweetness and bitterness, I think, not much of either. A straight-forward tripel, no flash. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
My first visit to the brewery and I hoped to sample their quadruple as it was shown to be available from the website. Not to be. Instead I had a 12 oz bottle-pour of Old No. 23 into an appropriate glass for the style. It showed just short of black finished by a light tan skim. The smell was muted ripe fruit. And the taste included plums, cereal and malt. An okay brew.