Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at the Brick Store Pub. Pours black, with a big, foamy, brown head. The aroma is milk chocolate, vanilla, plums, cinnamon, and toasted oak. Very sweet, and a touch bitter. Very heavy body, with a creamy, syrupy mouthfeel. This is a big and boozy stout. Decadent and delicious.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Barley malt and straw aroma. Golden yellow with large white head. Mildly sweet barley malt and mildly bitter fresh hay flavor. Good body. Nice.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Can: Clear, orange-amber with a chunky beige head. Caramel, orange aroma. Taste is sweet and juicy....orange malt, grain malt, followed by a solid sraw/peel/pine bittering. Very pleasant body with a great flavour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Can: Hazy, golden-yellow with a small, off-white head. Grain, grass aroma. Taste is just barely bitter.....grain malt, a little citrus....grass. Ok, but not exactly memorable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Very hazy bright peach and copper coloured body with a thick, six to seven centimetre tall, very soapy tan head that leaves a predictably very ugly lace. Aroma of grass, super resin and bright, dank hops with tropical fruits, alcohol, pungent hop bitterness and somehow way more tropical fruits (pineapple, passionfruit, guava, rambutans and mangosteen) noticeable throughout. Medium to even Full-bodied; Rich super malty flavour at first with a huge dose of alcohol, tropical fruits, bitter hops and pure sweetness that fade almost just as quickly with a deep bitterness, smooth juice and fruit note and ending with a proper balance of malt and hops, but all on the very assertive side. Aftertaste shows more hops than malt, but the balance is exquisite showing tropical fruits, dryness and pungency from the hops with a good alcohol bite and bitterness from the yeast, the sugars and from the grasses/dryness. Overall, a very nice IPA, perhaps one of the best from the East Coast that I've had in a very long time, with a great complexity, an amazing balance and great fruity note that seems to show a ton more, but leaves a nice bit of alcohol without being in the Imperial category. Definitely worth going out of the way for, however if you do not like IPAs, this will NOT change your mind, and would actually hate them even more. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from GrapeVine in Fort Mill, South Carolina on 21-August-2017 for US$1,70 after watching the Eclipse, sampled at home in Washington on 16-September-2017 and will be waiting until I can get more of this, somewhere hopefully closer to NY/DC.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can. Metallic biscuit malt and straw aroma. Hazy golden yellow with moderate head. Moderately sweet creamy biscuit malt and mildly bitter weedy hay flavor. Okay body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can. Tangerine, peach, biscuit malt, and grapefruit peel aroma. Golden yellow with moderate head. Moderately sweet orange-peach, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter grapefruit peel/pine flavor. Nice body and balance. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Solid N.E. IPA, juicy and resinous with a firm bitter bite and a solid biscuit-caramel malt base. Hops mix mango, pineapple, and orange with a dank-floral backbone, and the moderate sweetness offsets the piney finish. Good nose, good texture, good beer.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Helles Lager from Southern Barrel Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Draft. Hazy pale yellow color, medium white head. lightly floral aroma. Taste is lemony straw. OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 2.5
From a 12 oz. can it is a clear Amber color with a slight head. The aroma is malty and the taste is hint of caramel with some maltiness with a bitter finish