Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Served with a ring of cinnamon and sugar, which made it hard to actually smell and taste the beer for a while - comes across as a spiced amber - a lot of cinnamon and nutmeg, followed by a bite of ginger - finishes slightly vegetal, and almost starchy - not the worst brewpub pumpkin ale, but I’m still disappointed in myself for trying it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Clear straw-colored beer - a bit abrasive, and not as smooth as a lager should be - very honey sweet, with some peppery alcohol, and floral hop flavors - the high sweetness makes it come across more like a maibock than an o-fest - not terrible.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
I was surprised by this one - a lot of brick house beers really don’t sit well with me, but this had a nice creamy body, and a very smooth flavor of roasted nuts and caramel - a tiny bite of hops in the finish - a little buttery, but not in a diacetyl-like way - the metallic character that plagues many of this brewer’s beers was not present at all.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Yea, I have no clue why this is on tap this time of year, but their double pils still isn’t up, so I was stuck with this - somewhat hazy golden beer, with a fairly tenacious lacing around the sides - semi-skunky, european strong lager aroma, with potent honey sweetness behind it - a very sweet beer, with sugar and honey being most prevalent, along with some grainy/wheaty character underneath - grassy, herbal hops arrive late, along with some citrus pulp and rind, combining with the sweetness to create a flavor similar to sugar on grapefruit - the hops are a bit astringent, but the sweetness wins out in the end, though - kind of not very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Clear copper beer, with a frothy, bright white lace that leaves streaks of stickiness down the sides of the glass - explodes with rye in the nose and the flavor, without much else in the way of supporting aroma or flavor - now, I love rye beer, so this isn’t exactly a bad thing, but it does make the beer a bit one-dimensional - some hops and a moderate malt sweetness add some fruity character to the beer - once I got near the bottom of my pint, the beer started to develop a mild chemical presence in the background, like the taste that many Saranac beers have, but it was very hard to notice - flawed and lacking complexity, but I loves me some rye.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Medium amber with sticky lace - powerfully, fresh cascade hop aroma - this carries over to the flavor as well - quite dry, with a really nice, tongue-tickling cascade punch - light caramel malt makes its presence known, but there is more of a dry, grainy, biscuity malt character to it - I’d have to agree with Eugene; due to the hop presence and medium body, I’d call this an IPA, and quite a good one at that.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
[newer batches of this beer have gotten quite good, and it’s now my favorite in their regular line-up - it’s got some interesting molasses and brown sugar character to it, with malt being center stage until the finish, which introduces a nice herbal hop bitterness and some fruit esters] Now called "Boys Red" - one of their better sellers - a fairly standard amber, with some bright fruity qualities (strawberry/cherry) - lightly sweet malt backbone, with a fairly strong, herbal hop counterpoint - good with food, but not very interesting on its own.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Not your typical belgian strong ale - clear golden with a copper tint - sweet aroma, with a lot of spice, bracing you for what’s to come - the alcohol is a bit evident at first, but a heaping helping of spices helps cover it up quickly - coriander, and some nutmeg? are strongest - light banana and clove coupled with a touch of phenolics - strong belgian sugar sweetness makes the beer a bit too sweet, and makes it a little sticky - a little out of balance, but still quite nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cloudy golden out of the tap, with a soft, pillowy head - grainy, bready malts in the aroma, with more of an american hop aroma than a british, which is fine with me - a slighthard water, mineral quality in the flavor makes it seem authentic regardless of the more american-ish hop profile - medium, crisp, fresh hop flavors are balanced well with a slighty dry, biscuity malt flavor - I could drink this one all day long.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Tap at the brewpub. Also the nitro. Poured with a millimeter of head, all black. Aroma is faintly roasty. Taste is all crap. This may be the worst tasting stout ever. Taste of rubber with a faintly roasty aftertaste. A disturbing static-y mouthfeel. Drank a thrid of it and stopped.