Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Poured from bottle deep golden color with a fizzy white head. Aromas of bread yeast and mild spice. Taste is grass with a hint of fruit and caramel and a bitter finish. Not stellar.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This was poured into a nonic pint glass.
The appearance was a nice black color with a one finger white to off white foamy head that dissipated within about forty five seconds leaving some light clingy stringy lacing.
The smell started off with a nice sweet to roasty coffee. Eventually, as it warmed, there was a nice sweet milk chocolate and a touch of bitter dark chocolate.
The taste took all of those previously mentioned flavors and blended nicely. The aftertaste was really nice as it combined all the previously mentioned flavors in a sticky fashion. A moderately quick sweet finish clings nicely.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. Carbonation runs smooth and lets in a nice graininess from the oatmeal.
Overall, sweet stout or oatmeal stout. Whatever it is, I’d have again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at the source. Brightly clear deep golden color with a small quickly dissipating bubbly white head. Nice bready pilsner with some spicy and floral hop. Light earth light astringency, somewhat mediocre.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewpub. Dark brown black color with a decent but short lived creamy off white head. Roasty chocolate with hints of fruit and earth. Nothing earth shattering but less flawed than the other beers I tried today.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. Slightly hazy amber copper color. Spicy earthy with a solid hit of toffee and caramel with just a touch of astringency. Not horrible.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the source. Hazy straw color with the biggest bubbles I’ve ever seen on a head of beer that dissipated almost instantly. Huge bready and light earthy notes with just a hint of lemony tartness. Smooth clean, lightly tart and hugely quaffable. My pint disappeared in nothing flat. I must try more of this style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at the source. Hazy copper color with a big bubbled frothy head. Holy spice rack Batman, there’s a heavy hand here somewhere. Earthy light lemon and huge almost pie spicing. Glad I only got a taster of this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the source. Hazy orange amber color with a minimal head. Earthy spicy light citrus hop not bad. A bit heavy on the spice additions for my liking, but better than the other saison they had on tap.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours dark mahogany into a tulip. Sickly head recedes to hug rim. Sweet caramel and dark pit fruit aromas. Medium bodied with sweet roasted nuts and hot caramel front to back. Mild bitter and sour earthy finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
On tap at the brewery, Dark brown, black color with a decent sized white head. Medicinal fake cherry syrup aromas, with a faint caramel roast underneath. The taste is something else. Sweet syrupy cherry cough drops with hints of aspirin and faint stout like flavors buried deep underneath. Wow thats bad.