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BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
Beach Honey from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
6.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap. Pours with a golden body and a small head. Aroma is floral, straw, honey, biscuit, banana, chamomile and cinnamon. Taste is honey, tea and citrus. Lively bubbles.
Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2010 at 18:39
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
Railslide Red from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
On tap. Pours with a huge white head over an amber-golden body. Aroma is fruity, straw, tea, light hops. Taste is caramel, toast, and somewhat dry but still decently malty. Herbal and citrus hops are medium strength in the background. Lively bubbles, dry finish but still a malty/caramel finish.
Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2010 at 18:38
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
Kali Kush Pale from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pours with a hazed golden orange body and a white head. Aroma is fruity and spicy, coriander, rye, and bright sage. Taste is sage, dry, spicy, coriander. Lively bubbles and a dry finish.
Tried on 26 Jul 2010 at 18:35
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
Poppin Pils from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
6.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
A Bohemian Pils according to the brewer. Doubt this could get label approval with the name, but it was on tap, so it doesn’t matter. Pours with a golden body and a small white head. Aroma is bready, grain, floral and honey. Taste is grainy, bready, dry, honey with medium bitterness. Lively bubbles and dry.
Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2010 at 18:33
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
DMJ IPA from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
7.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
On tap. Pours with a small white head that turns into a ring over a golden body. Aroma is fruity, floral, tropical fruit and caramel. Taste is dry, straw, fruity, and a little faded. Tropical fruits, some herbal hops. A little too bitter for its current state of freshness (more dry hopping or knockout additions might help). Lively bubbles.
Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2010 at 18:31
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
Belgian Strong from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
On tap at the brewpub. Pours with a small white head over a hazy golden-brown body. Aroma of fruity esters, raisins and caramel. Taste is fruity, toffee, tons of esters, bananas, raisins, bubblegum and straw. Dryish with lively carbonation.
Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2010 at 18:29
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
Walkabout Stout from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
7.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
According to the brewer this is a Sweet Stout. Tap (I think Nitro). Pours with a black body and a large tan head. Aroma of butterscotch, roast, vanilla, fruit, tobacco, toffee and coffee. Taste is dry, fruity, chocolate, mocha and cinnamon. Really smooth mocha flavors. Medium finish. Good stuff.
Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2010 at 18:27
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
Maverick's Double IPA from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at the brewery. This entry needs to be split. I just spoke with the new brewer. They put this on a couple months ago and it is the first time that this recipe has been on since Kirk McHale left. This new batch is a 100% different recipe (hop and malt bill) according to the new brewer and can be identified by it being only 8%. Pours with a hazy golden body and a thick white head. Aroma is floral, citrus hops, tropical fruit and light caramel. Pretty darn good. Taste is caramel, straw, bitter, dry and fruity. Maybe it has been on for a bit too long, or maybe not enough dry hopping, but the flavor didn’t "pop" as much as I was expecting/hoping it would. Super dry and bitter finish. Lively and dry mouthfeel. Would liked to have tried Mr. McHale’s version.
Tried from Draft on 26 Jul 2010 at 18:22
BMan1113VR (8092) reviewed
Hibiscus Ale from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewpub. Current brewer said he did not brew this nor does he like it very much. I think I would agree with that. Pours a, for the most part, clear orange-golden body with a white head. Aroma of citrus, cereal, caramel and a slight spice. Taste is honey, caramel, citrus, malty. Finishes with a bit of hop bitterness. Medium to heavy bubbles.
Tried from Draft on 25 Jul 2010 at 23:28
KimLundJohansen (10466) reviewed
Maverick's Double IPA from Breakwater Brewing Company
16 years ago
8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Cloudy golden towards amber with a medium off white and creamy head. Aroma was packed with grapefruity hops, pine and light toasted malt. Flavor had loads of hops, pine, grapefruits, pale malts and lemons. Bone dry and rediciously bitter. If only most double IPA’s would be dry like this. Lovely.
Tried on 23 Jul 2010 at 08:15