mcberko (47456) reviewed Season 3 from The Beer Research Institute 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Beer Research Institute, pours a clear copper golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out saison yeast, with fruity esters, and a light floral character. Flavour is sweet, with lots of residual candied sugar, saison yeast and fruity esters. Nothing like a real saison - sweet and floral, without any yeast complexity. No good.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Retro '95 from The Beer Research Institute 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Beer Research Institute, pours a clear copper golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out restrained piney hops and biscuity malt. Flavour is along the same lines, with piney hops and biscuity malt in good balance. Dry and crisp, with a nicely hoppy finish. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured into a nonic pint glass, the appearance was a black color with a thin off white foamy head that died off at a decent pace. Sly messy lacing.
The aroma blends a robust roasty coffee edge to milk chocolate and vanilla bean sweetness and roastiness. Bitterness of the coffee beans are underneath.
The flavor brings about robust coffee bean to the vanilla sweet edge flowing nicely together. Sly ruggedness in the bean in the aftertaste with a creamy sort of finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly nice sessionability as a porter. Carbonation felt fine. Enough robust roastiness playing with the vanilla bean smoothness.
Overall, a very nice English porter with a nice vanilla bean smoothness balancing nicely.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits a clear copper body that supports a thin light tan head. The aroma offers up sweet malts, ripe apple, a dash of molasses, white wine and an oaky woody note. The taste delivers mildly tart white wine moving into sugar sweet malts, lightly spicy yeasty notes, a woody note and a touch of sweet vanilla. It dries out some into the finish with lingering dry white wine notes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits a clear copper body that supports a light tan head. The aroma offers up pine, grapefruit, citrus pith and then mild malts and crystal malts. The taste delivers smooth malt nuanced pine hops and grapefruit hop bitterness that doesn’t approach the resiny hop realm. It gets a little grassy and spicy hopped to midway and then sliding into the finish with a crystal malt like sensation. Wow! I swear this is a 8% or 9% beer. 13%? How. A beer to be cautious with as it will kick your teeth in if you give it the slightest chance. Damn!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Tap. Pours clear black, medium beige head, great lacing. Aroma is roasty ashtray. Flavor is light sweet, medium bitter, roasty, pine. Basically a hoppy stout; nothing distinctive to the black IPA style other than bitterness.
Bytemesis (16229) reviewed Intergalactic from The Beer Research Institute 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap. Pours clear pale golden, large white head, good lacing. Aroma is field grass, Belgian yeast, coriander. Flavor is light sweet. Light plus bitter, grassy, Saison. Medium light body. Pretty standard fare. So weird. Not getting much new world hop influence here
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Exon Valdez from The Beer Research Institute 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits a near clear deep gold body that supports a dirty white head. The aroma offer a blend of crystal malts, light roasted malts and mango juiciness. The taste delivers smooth sweet malts and then modestly juicy mango and guava. To midway it picks up a bit of lightly roasted malts blended with sweet malts and lingering tropical fruitiness. A few more sips reveal a mild cracker malt breadiness and that’s working real well. Pretty nice Pale.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Retro '95 from The Beer Research Institute 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits a crystal clear deep gold body that supports a near tight light tan head. The aroma offers pine and floral hops as well as biscuit malts and crystal malts. The taste delivers smooth modestly sweet malts, a lightly roasted malt note and some crystal malts. Behind the malts are pleasing levels of pine hops blended into spicy earthy hops, a juicy mango note and then floral hops. Nice easy drinking Pale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured up on tap at the brewpub where it exhibits a clear amber to deep copper body that supports a dirty white head. The aroma offers up crystal malts, caramel malts and some lightly roasted maltiness with thin sweet bready notes in the background. The taste delivers smooth sweet malts, some lightly roasted malts, a bit of caramel malts and crystal malts sweetness. Behind the various malts lurks mild spicy and mild spicy hoppy woodiness. Nice ESB.