Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
4 oz draft taster glass at Harry’s Tavern (attached to Lukas Liquor) in Martin City, Missouri. The pour is a hazed brown with an off white head. The aroma is bright scotch whiskey, raisin, clove yeast and a caramel honey malt. The taste is has the whisky all over it, along with the raisin, clove and caramel honey of the nose. FUll, rich flavors. As the beer warms, a nice Islay salt is present on the nose and taste, adding additional depth. The palate is heavy bodied with low carbonation and a mouth coating slick mouth feel. Lingering whisky finish. Despite the strong whisky flavors, it does actually manage the booze pretty well. We’ll made, though not entirely my thing.
theisti (5540) reviewed Big Brother from Martin City Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Goblet draft at the Martin City Brewing Company Pizza & Tap in Kansas City, Missouri. The pour is a dark black with a thin khaki head. The aroma is booze, whiskey along with caramel, cane sugar and big round fruit sweetness. A bit of roast malt in there as well as the beer warms. The taste is boozy sweet raisin up front, the caramel sugar and finishing with some of the roast malt and big boozy liquor alcohol heat. A bit of pine in the long finish. The heat is actually well integrated with the malt and caramel raisin sweet, there is just so much alcohol. The palate heavy bodied with soft to low carbonation and a big pile of the warming alcohol. Well made but too boozy for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Shaker pint draft at Rye in Leawood, Kansas. The pour is a hazed brown, slight copper with not much of an off white head. The aroma is bourbon, sweet, softly boozy along with additional caramel malt and toffee. The taste is the nutty caramel toffee malt, soft Bourbon, wood and mash sweetness. The alcohol is present, well integrated and balanced with the beer. The palate is medium to heavy bodied with soft carbonation with warming Bourbon booze finish. Nice use of wood.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750 ml crowler filled at the brewery in Kansas CIty, Missouri, consumed 3 hours later. The pour is hazed copper brown golden with a well formed one inch light tan head that falls with nice lace. The aroma bright pine resin, rye floral, and a really interesting fruit aroma I can’t quite identify. The taste is the super fresh and clean pine, soft fruit, sort of a non sweet melon, sweet cereal grain malts and the earth yeast spice to the finish. The palate is medium bodied with bright natural carbonation and a dry crisp resinous mineral finish. Fun hop, I enjoyed this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750 ml crowler filled at the brewery in Kansas CIty, Missouri, consumed 2 hours later. The pour is a cloudy hazed grapefruit color, not much of a white head. The aroma is blood orange tart citrus, cherry fruit and standard Berliner Weisse yeast. The taste is the blood orange right away, tart, followed close behind with cherry fruit and additional lemon citrus leading to a nice yeast tart finish. The palate is light bodied with active carbonation and clean tart finish with the blood orange and cherry. Really easy drinking, nice one.
theisti (5540) reviewed Space Opera from Martin City Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750 ml crowler filled at the brewery in Kansas CIty, Missouri, consumed 2 hours later. The pour is a hazed golden copper with a well formed 2 inch egg white head. The aroma is fresh resin pine along with a bright floral character. The taste is caramel cracker malt balanced nicely with resinous pine hop. All flavors clean and fresh. The palate is medium bodied with soft carbonation and a mineral resin finish. Nice one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12oz can into stemless wine glass. Dark golden pour. Head turns into thick surface lacing but not sticky. Aroma is moderate banana and light fruit yeast. But a nice doughy maltiness. Flavor goes lower on the sweet and banana which are more apparent in the aftertaste. But a light graininess and again a little dough inessential that I enjoy. Martin City is doing Belgians better than many similar breweries but they can still improve.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12oz can. Pours ruby brown. Off white, long lasting but small head. It’s a rather decent stab at the style. Misses the usual pitfalls, no strong esters or sweetness. It does have dark Belgian candy sweetness and a bit syrupy. But a medium light body. A raisin biscuit flavor. Short and light finish. Kodos to Martin City.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Orange hued golden color. Milky, glass coveing lacing. The very well malt balanced yet sweet hops is right for me. Mild bitterness. Just fresh hops I actually like and a malt base that is well attenuated and doesn’t get in the way.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can thanks to Suttree. Clear light gold with a white head. Light citrus, grain and a bit of grass in the aroma. The flavor is bitter with pineapple hops notes. Medium body.