bhensonb (22605) reviewed Panamax Porter from Fort George Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft at the brewpub. Roasted malt aroma. Very dark brown color with a lacing beige/tan head. Thin to medium body with mild carbonation. The flavor is toasted malt and coffee. Finish is nicely dry and lightly bitter. Chocolate seems to appear, but perhaps not.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Vortex IPA from Fort George Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at the brewpub. Beautiful nose of cat p---. Great. Amber color with lacing white head. The flavor is just grapefruit on top of caramel. The finish resolves to decent grapefruit bitter. A great IPA.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Harvest Rye Lager from Fort George Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft at the brewpub. Roasted malt aroma. Reddish amber color with a creamy white head. Nice roasted malt flavor, lightly backed by noble hops. Medium bodied with creamy carbonation. The finish is nice roast, making me think of porters. Very good lager.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at the brewpub. Light malt and hop aromas. Golden color with a substantial white head. A bit thin in body, but nice grapefruit bitter. The carbonation is fairly mild. There is malt, but the hop dominates. Nice bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft at the brewpub. Aroma of cranberry and mint. Golden amber color with a lacing white head. Whoa. It’s mint, followed by cranberry. So the malt sweetness is balanced by cranberry bitter, and the mint dominates the finish. Adventuresome. Try it before you die.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Quick Wit from Fort George Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft at the brewpub. Spicy belgian aroma (citrus peel/cardamom). Pale golden color with a creamy lacey white head. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Citrus peel and spice for flavor. A tad perfumey. Crisp. Fits the style.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Vortex IPA from Fort George Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught pint at Redbones on 10/14/07
Hazy apricot with lighter golden tints and a small white head that shows moderate retention, light lacing.
Peaches, oranges and a very healthy dose of lush, green, pine-like notes rise from the glass, growing ever more bitter, but initially coming off as quite aromatically-driven. Obvious sediment in suspension does have an effect on the finish, which is cut short by a bland doughiness and gains some astringent hop-tea-like character. Certainly a little more coarse filtration or conditioning would have helped here. That said, every subsequent sniff starts out marvelously well, with an almost cotton candy-like sweetness intertwined with the hop notes. These pale malt sugars otherwise stay out of the way of the hops. Despite the sediment blandness, the beer is clean and well-brewed. Aroma strength (at the start) is medium-high. No alcohol noted.
Big and chewy in the mouth, with fluffy carbonation and obvious protein and yeast suppleness, the flavor displays some of the lushness of the aroma, but seems to gain a bit too much sweetness (pale malt and light caramel). It ends starkly bitter, nearly astringent and with a touch of alcohol warmth. Hops are rather unfocused and messy, despite being fresh and enjoyable. Again, most of my problem here is with the conditioning of the beer, and this is the problem you encounter when your beers are never "fined, filtered or clarified" as their website says. Eventually the palate (mine anyways) succumbs to fatigue from the bitterness and sweet sugars, but not before some delicious retronasal hop notes.
Troopie (5667) reviewed Vortex IPA from Fort George Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught. Not much aroma here. I had to almost stick my nose into the ale to smell anything, and then there was just a slight hoppiness and some soapiness. Copper colour with slight white head. Hoppy flavour with piny and citrusy notes and more soapiness. Lingering hoppy flavour, with more soapiness. Could it have been a soapy glass?
bb (18428) reviewed Vortex IPA from Fort George Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft. Amber beer with a nice whitish head. Grapefruit aroma with malt backing. Grapefruit, pine, and light caramel flavor. Long bitter grapefruit finish. Medium body. Nice.
Oakes (33493) reviewed XVIth Chapel from Fort George Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dark amber. Smells caramelly, toffeeish, boozy. Not bad though...at the better end of those three. OK, it’s a touch cloying on the palate. It’s chewy and toffeeish, yes, but thankfully it ends with an alcoholic and woody hop dryness.