About
Welcome to the Roost
River Roost Brewery offers aromatic, hop forward, full flavored beers brewed in 10BBL batches. Established in 2016, owner and operator Mark Babson, a former brewer and quality technician in the industry, now spends his days in the brewhouse or behind the bar creating favorites like Más Verde, Mo’rilla, and Glimpse.
River Roost Brewery offers aromatic, hop forward, full flavored beers brewed in 10BBL batches. Established in 2016, owner and operator Mark Babson, a former brewer and quality technician in the industry, now spends his days in the brewhouse or behind the bar creating favorites like Más Verde, Mo’rilla, and Glimpse.
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler from the brewery - cheers to AC. Pours hazy gold with a creamy, pure white head. Great aroma, dry and pithy, with lots of citrus, some pale malts. Light sweet flavour with heather pithy citrus, tangerine, mild rindy bitterness. Light-medium bodied with average carbonation. Fairly clean on the finish, with more pithy dryness, tangerine. Super clean, nice and drinkable.
Tried
from Growler
on 18 Aug 2017
at 21:50
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at source Cloudy. Dark orange. Good head. Light mouthfeel. Clementine, grapefruit, oranges, sugar, oatmeal, wheat, spicy pepper and herbal sourdough bread.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2017
at 12:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Growler split two ways at fridge temp. Looks like carbonated orange juice. Smells of woody paste, orange peel and acid. Very dense and spritz carb that fades fast to an oily thick mash. Acidic orange, grapefruit. Pine. A strange medicinal bitter finish.
Tried
from Growler
on 19 Jun 2017
at 17:52
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Very very cloudy. growler filled today. It’s a dark gold color.nice lacing. Smells really great. Juicy and tropical. This is a good tasting beer. Very tasty. Juicy, very tropical. lots of grapefruit and oranges.
Tried
from Growler
on 10 Jun 2017
at 19:35
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
64 oz growler, Thank you Adam and Heather_B! Murky Milkshake IPA looking (Thank you Beer Advocate for your DB review of Tired Hands, way back when) , Aroma is bold citrus, earthy pine with notes of pale grain.
Bitterness is moderately bitter with a good amount of juicy hints. Medium bodied with a mild carbonation level. texture starts juicy and turns mildly dry. Really damn nice!
Bitterness is moderately bitter with a good amount of juicy hints. Medium bodied with a mild carbonation level. texture starts juicy and turns mildly dry. Really damn nice!
Tried
from Growler
on 10 Jun 2017
at 19:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
32ounce growler. Split 2 ways. Extremely hazy, nice 2 finger off-white head. looks great probably one of the best looking IPAs put out by these guys so far. Cloudy, hazy off-orange looks like a juicy orange. I made the huge mistake of filling my pint glass to the very top so I can’t get an aroma immediately. Flavor, very piney, actually then a watery finish. Juice up front then pine, then water with a little grapefruit. aroma is great though.
Tried
from Growler
on 06 Jun 2017
at 19:55
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
Growler share with Henry.
My portion was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a black color with a small off white foamy head that fell off at a moderate pace. Slight messy lace.
The aroma had some milk chocolate/cocoa powder, roasted coffee beans, sweet oats, subtle wood, light cereal/grain sweetness with a touch of earthiness.
The flavor seemed to blend fairly nice between the roast and the sweet and bringing in the earthy portions in a semi-bitter sort of way for extra balance. Light roasty aftertaste and finish.
The palate was about medium bodied with a pretty good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt good. Solid smoothness along my tongue.
Overall, pretty good oatmeal stout well worthy of having again. Hope they bring this back next Winter or Autumn.
Growler share with Henry.
My portion was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a black color with a small off white foamy head that fell off at a moderate pace. Slight messy lace.
The aroma had some milk chocolate/cocoa powder, roasted coffee beans, sweet oats, subtle wood, light cereal/grain sweetness with a touch of earthiness.
The flavor seemed to blend fairly nice between the roast and the sweet and bringing in the earthy portions in a semi-bitter sort of way for extra balance. Light roasty aftertaste and finish.
The palate was about medium bodied with a pretty good sessionability about it. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt good. Solid smoothness along my tongue.
Overall, pretty good oatmeal stout well worthy of having again. Hope they bring this back next Winter or Autumn.
Tried
from Growler
on 17 May 2017
at 20:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark orange. 1 finger head. Smells like a dank pineapple smoothie with chunky mango. Man. This is dank and Resioun and chewy. Intense.
Tried
on 16 May 2017
at 10:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a semi-hazy blonde color with a thin level foamy head that fell off at a decent pace. Light stringy lace.
The aroma had a playful resinous/bitter hoppiness up front zinging a little bit of floral quality to flow with some ruby red grapefruit pulp and rind.
The flavor brought basically the same qualities as in the aroma - fully bittersweet with an acceptable sharpness to hit the aftertaste and follow into the finish.
The feel was roughly medium bodied, perhaps just a touch under. A decent sessionability about it with a sturdy carbonation as the ABV seemed to be as the brewer projected.
Overall, pretty nice IPA well worthy of having again. One of these days, I’d really like to spend time at this brewery.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a semi-hazy blonde color with a thin level foamy head that fell off at a decent pace. Light stringy lace.
The aroma had a playful resinous/bitter hoppiness up front zinging a little bit of floral quality to flow with some ruby red grapefruit pulp and rind.
The flavor brought basically the same qualities as in the aroma - fully bittersweet with an acceptable sharpness to hit the aftertaste and follow into the finish.
The feel was roughly medium bodied, perhaps just a touch under. A decent sessionability about it with a sturdy carbonation as the ABV seemed to be as the brewer projected.
Overall, pretty nice IPA well worthy of having again. One of these days, I’d really like to spend time at this brewery.
Tried
on 09 May 2017
at 21:05
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Growler with Doug.
We both poured into a becher pint glasses.
The appearance was a semi-milky pale copper/yellow color with a finger’s worth of sustaining white foamy head. Lingering messy lace.
The aroma shaped some citrus pulp to sweet kiwi/mango/grassy fresh hoppy tones. Light bitter citrus rind ever so slightly.
The flavor was pure bittersweet through the blend of the prior notes, full and worthy enough to pop enough of it in the aftertaste to follow into the finish.
The feel came close to medium bodied with a good sturdy carbonation bracing the projected ABV pretty nicely.
Overall, this one really smells, tastes and feels like the lupulin powder was used absolutely correct.
We both poured into a becher pint glasses.
The appearance was a semi-milky pale copper/yellow color with a finger’s worth of sustaining white foamy head. Lingering messy lace.
The aroma shaped some citrus pulp to sweet kiwi/mango/grassy fresh hoppy tones. Light bitter citrus rind ever so slightly.
The flavor was pure bittersweet through the blend of the prior notes, full and worthy enough to pop enough of it in the aftertaste to follow into the finish.
The feel came close to medium bodied with a good sturdy carbonation bracing the projected ABV pretty nicely.
Overall, this one really smells, tastes and feels like the lupulin powder was used absolutely correct.
Tried
from Growler
on 09 May 2017
at 20:55