Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Very hazy light yellow appearance. Fresh pale malt aroma with light banana notes. Sweet, creamy character, fresh-tasting with the esters and phenols kept rather subdued, leaving the focus to the pale malts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
(draught from lagertank) Very clear, deep chestnut. Slight head, lacey. Nose of smoked ham and parsley. Dark malts, also, of course. (Glass used was bad - off-smell disregarded.) Several 'layers' of smokiness in the taste, nowhere exaggerated. Impression of saltiness. More like Spezial than like Schlenkerla. Retronasal taste like chestnut flour. Medium-bodied. Long smoky, slightly sweet aftertaste. GREAT Rauchbier!
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Sandlot Arbitrator from Sandlot Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Chestnut brown; creamy - yellowish head. Nose as from fresh German brown bread, quite yeasty. Taste is predominantly sweet with good bitter, shrublike flavour. Again bread flavour and molasses. Well-bodied, warming. This is a good, tru-to-nature Bock. Not really exciting but more than halfway decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Yellow, greenish shine. Nearly no head. Nose with obligatory banana - cloves, but OK. Quite sweet, a bit too for my liking, bubblegum. Tinge of mint in the flavour. Medium-bodied. Typical, and it would fit in Germany, very true to the originals.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Sandlot Helles of a Play from Sandlot Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(draught from lagertank) Very pale yellow, huge white head. Slightly smoked nose, slightly citrussy. Slight corn taste. There is just a tad of hops retronasal. Light bodied, but the corn (?) seems to fill it up a bit. Good light beer, but tasted at very low temp.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Sandlot Barmen Pilsener from Sandlot Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(draught from lagertank)Gold colour. Thick white-yellow head, good lace. Nice hoppy smell + cookies in the best balance. Taste are cookies + hops (Saaz!) but the hops are gone after a few sips, except shortly retronasal. Slightly burnt cookie taste, rather medium bodied. Not really Czech style, but more than worth a try.