Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft at Idletyme Brewpub in Stowe, VT. Hazy pale yellow color. Smooth mouthfeel. Light. Very mainstream flavor profile. Better flavor than most helles'
Viper666-Qc (10199) reviewed IPA from Idletyme Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dégustée au printemps 2015 (De mes notes). .
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Hefeweizen from Idletyme Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap. Pours hazy yellow, small white head, dissipates to a ring with decent lacing. Aroma is light, wheat, clove, bubblegum, banana. Flavor the same, light sweet with minimal bitterness. Light body, pretty low carbonation. Decent but not outstanding in the style.
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Bohemia Pilsner from Idletyme Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Tap. Pours clear golden orange, small off-white head, good residual and lacing. Aroma is pils malt, grains, hint of orange, floral hops. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter. Light body, soft carbonation. Pretty good.
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Double Bock from Idletyme Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Tap. Pours clear chestnut, small off-white head, dissipates to a ring with decent lacing. Aroma is light, malty, roast, hint of nuts, toffee. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter, malty, roasty and smooth. Medium body, soft carbonation. Tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Tap. Pours clear golden, medium white head, dissipates fairly quickly, decent lacing. Aroma is light, floral and bready notes, with some grain and a hint of lemon. Flavor is light sweet, light plus bitter, floral and grain with slight tartness. Not sure why this is not a helles, but whatever. Light body, fairly low carbonation. Decent.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Idletyme from Idletyme Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/25/17.
Pale, copper-bronze body topped by a small, off-white head. High clarity and low retention.
Strong, resinous pine, candied orange and sourdough are backed by bread and little/no sweetness. No malt depth here, too much resin and over-boiled hops with sharp esters and alcohol on the finish.
Sweaty, sourdough, pine, wood, husk and light to moderate fruit. Light alcohol and really dull, heavy and fatiguing. Under-malted, over-boiled hops and not enough late addition hops with a thin texture and loose carbonation.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Zog's Pale Ale from Idletyme Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/25/17.
Pale golden-hay, minimal haze and a small, white head atop with low retention.
Sweaty, spicy, heavily peppery and over-boiled hops divulge very little juice or even much bright fruit. Husky, astringent malts behind them show an equal lack of malt and there is light resin and other sharp esters exposed.
Dry, undermalted, lightly grainy/husky and with sweaty, resinous hops and moderate bitterness. This is a really nice place, the food looks great and it looks like a great place to hang out. Seems like the beer is more of an afterthought here and obviously they’re not trying to compete with the VT beer scene. Which is all fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured into a pilsener glass, the appearance was a dark amber color with a two finger white foamy head that glistened and then fell off at a good pace. Light messy lace ran around the glass here and there.
The aroma presented some sweet and roasty nuts, sweet caramel/toffee malt base, grassy to earthy hops, light cake/sweet biscuits, butterscotch, dark bread, dried leaves, sweet wood and a little bit of milk chocolate.
The flavor leaned towards the sweet side and developed a subtle nutty roast more as it warmed. Aftertaste was sticky sweet nuts. Finish was the sticky sweet nuts and butterscotch.
The palate was medium bodied with a good almost sipping sort of quality to it. Carbonation felt on par. ABV felt good.
Overall, nice doppelbock to have on a chilly Spring evening. I’d have this one again, might even be good in beer bread.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled 01/27/17.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a rugged hazy burnt pale dark yellow color, almost looks like bread crust. Finger’s worth of white foamy head that gently dies off leaving a film of white glossy lace.
The aroma had some white pepper flowing over some biscuity/bready malts and then dried floral bitterness helps to blend nicely. Light pineapple as it warms.
The flavor blends the malts to the hops. Crisp balanced citrus bitter hops to a light resin and then the malty biscuits/bread slightly comes in. White pepper seems to be quite vacant here. Pineapple comes back with some lemon pulp sweetness. Aftertaste was sticky pineapple to biscuity/breadiness. Quick sticky bitter hoppy finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Moderate carbonation feels good push ing the stickiness out and rounding out the feel with that white pepper.
Overall, quite different as a blonde ale. But quite enjoyable. Super glad Idletyme brewed a good beer for military vets. Just hope more people rate to style so that they can see what a great beer this is.