jake65 (5821) reviewed Black Butte Porter from Deschutes Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown pour with a small tanned head. Rich flavor present with distinct tastes of bittersweet chocolate, coffee, maltiness, and roasty tones, and some hops present. A solid porter that is easy to enjoy.
jake65 (5821) reviewed Buzzsaw Brown from Deschutes Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Aroma has a nice earthy quality. as well as some roastiness. Taste is abundent with malts, chocolate, nuts, and a great balance of hoppiness. Truly an enjoyable brown ale.
BoiseBrewBlog (9108) reviewed Buzzsaw Brown from Deschutes Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours a clear deep dark brown with a modest light tan head. Dissipating rather quickly. Nice sheets of lacing. Aroma is nutty, and plenty of moderately toasted malts. Flavor is nice lightl chocolate malts and a bit woody. A bit more sweet, sharp flavors than i expected and a bit hoppier as well. Nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Bottle 75 cl) Pours a hazy, dark amber with a small, off-white head. Dry, hoppy and very aromatic nose. Medium body with lots of caramel and a somewhat blurred hop profile. Hoppy finish. Tasted at the Oklahoma Beer tasting March 06 hosted by mjames and lilannie. 240306 and 260708
jake65 (5821) reviewed Obsidian Stout from Deschutes Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a blackout black with a nice tan head. Tastes of roastiness, malts, coffee and chocolate tones, and a nice amount of hops present. A great stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
2005 Reserve French Oak: Oaky, but a clean fresh woody aroma, almost minty (so is that characteristic of french oak? I think this might be my first). Fruity aroma, with dark fruit, plums. A touch of phenols too, also banana and pineapple. Rummy. A very mild floral hop character. Much less sweet than the aroma leads you to expect. Dry and peppery. Spicy and leafy. Dry and hot finish. Clear pale amber, no head, light carbonation.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Jubelale from Deschutes Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Deep burgundy-purple, near black; irregular yellow-amber head. Very fruity nose, dark grapes and a piney background. Dark malts abund. Dry, piney hops flavour. Malts are there, but they don’t stamp their imprint on the taste. There’s a bit of creamy coffee whirling around in the background, lending the rather good body a velvety feel. A good ale, but I wonder about the supposed English character. Then again, who cares if the beer’s OK?
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Hop Henge IPA from Deschutes Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
pours a bronze With a very Tall cream head. The smell is GREAT. This beer has a GREAT Hop tast. Well of cures look at the name. I like this A++
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Hop Henge IPA from Deschutes Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
2006 bomber shared by Muzzlehatch on 3/12/06
Riveting, bright amber-auburn-peach, with a huge, creamy, beige head. Sticks to the glass in huge clumps. Very well retained. Light haziness to the beer as well, with tiny bubbles working their way to the surface.
Toasty, hoppy and full of light, fresh yeast at first. Sourish peaches and a very hefty citrus and floral hop profile. Perfuminess and a dry, tangy hoppiness (guess that was the sourish peaches I just mentioned) with ilght pine resin on the very end. The bitterness really works its way in quickly and sets up. Toasty, lightly acidic munich and sweet caramunich malts (or just plain caramel/crystal malt) provide light breadiness as well.
Very first sip is very spicy and flowery, with a dash of citrus zest to liven things up even more. Caramel gets a bit heavy through the middle, seemingly dulling (or balancing?) the hoppiness up front, but light cherries, apples and the finishing pine help clear it. Very low, bottle conditioned, carbonation. Apricots and nectarines, with plenty of dry fruit skins mixing with warming alcohol (not harsh) overcompensates on the end, for the sweet middle of the beer. Soft, gentle, spacious mouthfeel. Creamy, borderline syrupy as well.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Mirror Mirror Barleywine from Deschutes Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2005 bomber shared by Muzzlehatch on 3/11/06
Dark chestnut, with a polished/stained oak glossiness to it, despite being lightly hazy (though it settles out with some clarity). Bubbly and with a beige head that is initially large, but slowly receding to cover with light, spotty lacing.
The nose effects a sticky, chewy, rich, butter toffee note to combine with floral, lightly resinous (not highly acidic or in your face) hops. Honestly, that’s really the extent of what I got. There is certainly more to it, some light hard wood oak notes, touches of candy-like caramel sugars and munich malts, but it just seems to be rather simple and dominated by the toffee and floral-piney hops. The hops are done tastefully, not burning and dominant, while the toffee is sticky and sweet, quite appropriate for a barleywine.
The flavor has a touch more of the oak, but it’s a light fruitiness, with a touch of butter that really blends (gets lost?) in to the malt and hops. Some light vanilla dryness, but more buttery, fruity, and sweet notes press on. Alcohol, while pretty well concealed for 10%, does emerge, lightly, on the end, adding some dryness and warmth. Texture is sticky, with low carbonation creating a mildly creamy consistency, though never really thick or syrupy, fortunately. I don’t know if it’s the filtration or what, but it dosent take the malts as deep as they could go. Also, I would have liked to have seen the pinot noir in the flavor/aroma. I really didnt get any of it at all (and the bourbon and port were extremely fleeting as well). Thanks for sharing, Barry.