Clown Shoes

Microbrewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Harpoon Brewery

Established in 2009

Contact
306 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA, United States
Description
Founded in December 2009 by beer lovers trying to make work fun again, Clown Shoes has been redefining what craft beer should be. We strive to add our own little creative twists on under-represented styles and styles in need of change.

In late 2017, Clown Shoes joined Mass. Bay Brewing Company, makers of Harpoon and UFO. With the greater resources and capabilities, we have expanded our special release and barrel aging programs with over 25 one-off beers in 2018 alone. Clown Shoes continues to grow and innovate, while keeping our own personality and style to bring you interesting and unique beers.

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottled as vampire slayer. Dark oily pour, slow building tannish head. Chocolate and malt and smokey aroma. Similar taste, chewy and very complex with somem bitter chocolate. Real good.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:20


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottled. Orangey amber pour, big soft billowin’ head. Pine, resin citrus, and hops notes of course, nice maltiness and grains, and hops bite to finish. Well done sir.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:20


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught from the habitat. Pours black, midway head. Some coffees, a bit light consistency, hops. Pretty awesome, I love Black IPA’s.e.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:18


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Draught from Swift. Poured orangey brown. Smallish head. Hoppy, citrus. Good enough.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:16


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Draught from Sprizenhaus. Dark pour, some grapefuit, maltiness, hops. Decent stuff.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:15


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pours a bright orange brown. Fair amount of head. Clean hops smell, some mild floral and citrus. OK.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:03


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle at home. Opaque black color, medium to full sized light brown colored head, but a bit fizzy and quickly disappearing. Aroma is malts, brown malts, roast, distant metallic hints, bourbon heavily. Flavor is malts, soft to medium roasted malts, bourbon, vanilla, sweetish bourbon in the beginning and then a moderate bitter note. What a great balance, what a great beer. Delicious.

Tried on 08 May 2025 at 22:29


7

Ystad Tasting (25/11/2023) - solid hoppy fruity with a sweet caramel malty backing, some tangerine and citrus rinds, sweet caramel malty backbone, resinous dank hoppy finish. Nice one.

Tried from Can on 27 Mar 2025 at 06:08


7

Malm� February Tasting - dark roasted and sweet malty with notes of rich cocoa, brown sugar, then the rich maple kicks in, sweet sticky maple, dark malty spiced finish.

Tried from Can on 27 Mar 2025 at 05:37


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Bottle. Dark amber body wit a creamy beige head. Aroma has caramel malt and unfortunately lots of cooked vegetables. Flavor is not sweet malt with bitter nuts and vegetables. I guess something was wrong with this bottle.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Mar 2025 at 05:33