Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at brewery. Pours clear dark gold with white head. Aroma has rustic wood, dry grass, and esters. Flavour is pretty earthy, dry grass, sweet esters. Not terrible, but the esters kinda fuck it up.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Loyal Legion. Pours black with a tan head. Mostly dry roasted malts on the nose and palate. Fine, but not very exciting.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Believe in Brett from Culmination Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Culmination, pours a clear pale golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma has young brett and plenty of muffled mustiness. Flavour is muffled and feet-like, with plenty of sweat socks, armpit, and a touch of muffled brett. This is totally incompetent.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Mystique from Culmination Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Culmination, pours a clear golden with a tiny white head. Aroma is full of acidic lime and cherry upfront, with gentle wild yeast in back. Flavour is dominated by the intense lime upfront, with a hint of cherry and subtle bugginess. Not much complexity here. The lime is bright and refreshing but nothing else about the beer speaks to me. Okay.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Brite from Culmination Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Culmination, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is full of lime leaf upfront, with a touch of lemongrass and generic citrus. Flavour is dry and bright, with lots of lime, lime leaf, and lemongrass. Fun adjunct usage, especially the lime leaf, but it's nothing special.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Weasels & Lies from Culmination Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at Culmination, pours a fairly clear amber golden with a small white head. Aroma is somewhat syrupy, with caramel malt, some restrained resinous hops, but the balance is poor and chaotic. Flavour is harsh and chaotic, with resinous hops, crunchy bready malt, and sweet caramel. There's nothing inherently wrong here; it's just a poorly balanced, chaotic, sweet and yet overly bitter IIPA. Needs total redesign. Poor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
On tap at Culmination, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma has a nice tangy hop character, with light pine, and just enough sweet biscuity malt. Flavour has tangy hops, pine, and traces of diacetyl that ruin this for me. The hop tang and pine are good but the light diacetyl kills this for me.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Saison Nouvelle from Culmination Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Culmination, pours a clear copper gfolden with a small white head. Aroma has toasted grains, rustic saison yeast, and too many esters. Flavour is too estery, with toasted grains, moderate esters, and a touch of fruitiness. Too estery for a saison, which is its downfall. Not terrible but just not working for me.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Extra Dark Stout from Culmination Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Loyal Legion PDX, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has gentle roast, earthy notes, and bone dry cocoa. Flavour is dry, with a sort of Irish stout character — bone dry roast, almost a tangy oyster character — with a bready finish. Nothing special but competently done.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Phaedrus from Culmination Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can from Beer Republic (advent calendar).
A: hazy golden, stable, frothy, white head.
A: citrus pith, pine, pineapple, shallot, thyme.
T: sweetish pineapple, bitter pine, citrus peel, bread.
F: bitter piney hops, crisp & pithy.
P: medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation.
Classic stuff, easy-going.