Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ Chris_o shindig 2007. Dark black color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, light brown head. Aroma is malty, roasted, dark chocolate, licorice. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled. Black colour, small brown head, Aroma is coffee, roasted malts, slight alcohol, some chocolate and slight herbs. Flavour is roasted malts, alcohol, coffee and chocolate. Slight fruity notes also.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Good Feller from Short's Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle Chris_o Shindig. Russet. Heavy grapefruit hop aroma. Harsh hop. That’s pretty intense. Good though, but too much at 2 in the morning.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Publican Porter from Short's Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Chris_o Shindig. Black with tan head. It’s an Impy stout with too much of everything. Too harsh hop on the finish. MInd you I must have liked it to give it a 3.8 Re-rate, I don’t know how or where, but I guess it was around Belgium pre ZBF. Big tar, really lovely chocolate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at Chris_o Shindig. Black with beige head. Lovely fruit. Nice beer, good intense choc. I really like it.
Silphium (4308) reviewed Soft Parade from Short's Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
December 2007 update: the third time’s the charm. Shorts finally shipped an uninfected barrel to a Lansing bar, this time Reno’s West. Previous samples at Crunchy’s in East Lansing and Brannigan Bros. in Lansing were drain pour butter bombs. This time, there was not a hint of butter or funk. Instead, the rather complex fruit component shined. Raspberries seemed most prominent. Mainly fruit and warming, slightly prickly alcohol. I find that fermented fruits leave residual sugars but little heft, the result sometimes feeling like an alcoholic seltzer with a discernible thinness of palate. This was the case here. I still liked this beer, and it was considerably better than the bad batches I previously sampled.
Old review:On tap at Crunchy’s, East Lansing. Hazy light orange body, medium off-white head. Aroma and flavor plagued by diacetyl, which overwhelmed any fruit flavors that were supposed to be present. Sweet, definitely, with a burnt caramel character. Too bad this passed QC. Rating: 5-3-5-2-9 (2.4).
yespr (55501) reviewed The Curl from Short's Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
RBSG07. From 75 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma of grapefruit floral hops. Flavour is malty mild sweet and very floral. Decent bitterness in the finish. Good bitter finish.
JK (8181) reviewed The Curl from Short's Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A $15 pilsner. It is good, even if ridiculously overpriced. Well carbonated. A bright, gold color and a tall white head. It has a nice pilsner bitterness with medium bodied malt and considerable hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sampled at the 2nd annual Michigan Winter Beer Festival, Lansing. Above average IPA. Hazy orange body, thin buff head. Big medicinal hops aroma- spicy and strong. Strong bitter piney hops body, bready. Bitter finish. Firm with nice bite.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Crunchy’s, East Lansing. Deep opaque brown-black body, thin-medium brown head. Aroma of charred roasted malts with a hint of spice. Roasted, charred malt body with interesting bready, sweet, fruity wheat malts and wet hay. Long, bitter, lingering finish. After about half a pint the complexity wanes and the charred malts dominate the palate. Just a tad thin. One of the better stouts I’ve sampled in quite some time.