Kleg (3852) reviewed West Coast IPA from Honky Tonk Brewing Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
12 oz. can from Fresh Market in Brentwood, TN. Pours a hazy gold color with a large, thick off white head and excellent retention. Good lacing. Hoppy aroma, as expected. Hoppy taste too, with low, soft grapefruit bitterness in the finish. Much less aggressive than I expected for 100 IBUs (per my can). Tastes more like a pale ale. Medium carbonation and body. The 6.5% ABV is well hidden.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From a 12 oz can. Pours a hazy brownish pale amber with a fine off white head. Cherry aroma. Flavors are sour cherry with just a hint of sweetness and not much bitterness.
iphonephan (11575) reviewed West Coast IPA from Honky Tonk Brewing Co. 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From a 12 oz can. Pours a clear copper with an off white head. Aromas of dank hay. Flavors are bitter pine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a hazy reddish-bronze color with a medium thin off-white head that recedes gradually to a film. Sparse strings of lace. Aroma of cherry, yeast and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of mildly tart cherry, wheat, yeast and doughy malt. The finish is mildly tart with a cherry aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Very light on the peanut butter notes, but still a nice stout, with a dry chocolate roastiness underlined by mild notes of roasted peanuts and anise, followed by a lingering dark roast dry finish. Not sweet at all, a pleasant surprise among a style known for tasting like liquid Reese's cups. Terrible pour and lackadaisical nose hurt the score, so I did some rejiggering to bring up the points. Still better than a 3.5, but goddamn is it an ugly pint.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Very nice BBA stout, quaffable in its gentle indulgence, offering up chocolate, dried fruit, anise, roast, and java notes before developing a bourbon-tinged vanilla back end. Not aggressive in any sense, but enjoyable, very easy-drinking for an impy stout, with a slow-developing depth best taken in while watching multiple Christmas episodes of The Office (US). Whatever. Good beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tall can. Pours hazy yellow with a tall, fluffy, white head. Sticky webbing left on the glass. Fresh tropical fruit aromas. The flavor follows the aroma. Slightly sweet with minimal bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Not a bad stout, bitter and roasted despite the vanilla and lactose adding a subtly sweet padding to the edges. Chocolate, caramel, and mocha add depth to the middle, while notes of dried cherry and cola lead to a semi-boozy, mildly dry finish, with vanilla rounding out the fade. Never quite coalesces as well as you'd like--lactose seems unnecessary, what with the ABV and vanilla--but very easy-drinkin' for an 8% stout. Slightly better than it scores.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Can thanks to wombat23. Pours dark with a creamy, beige head. The aroma promises dark chocolate with subtle bourbon notes and overall I appreciate the restrained note of the barrel after having had more than one brew drenched in bourbon. Taste is bittersweet with the strong roasted flavors nicely offset by the milk chocolate. Finishes with bourbon and fudge. Good!