Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home, as "Calico Amber Ale". Aroma is bready malt, caramel, resinous hops, biscuit, toffee, soft fruity notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Body is medium. Smooth and refined Amber Ale, it drinks so well, quality stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Beergium. Aroma is crisp grainy malt, straw, light bready with grassy notes and a touch of citrussy hops. Flavour is light sweet and bitter. Body is light to medium. Nicely crisp and easy drinking Lager, tasty grainy malts with a little grass and citrus.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Beergium. Aroma is fruity hoppy with strong grapefruit, grapefruit candy, juicy tropical fruits, soft pale malt, with a slight touch of pine resin. Flavour is light to moderate sweet with a pretty potent bitter finish. Medium bodied. Lots and I mean lots of grapefruit juice with a potent bitterness, might be a little too heavy on the grapefruit candy for my a taste to be a true winner IPA. But I enjoyed it.
tricksta_p (13806) reviewed Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Beergium. Aroma is resinous hops, big pine, tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, robust malt, caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet with a long bitter finish. Medium bodied. Very piney and hoppy with a study malty backbone, strong bittersweet flavour, great balance... I dig it!
tricksta_p (13806) reviewed Grunion from Ballast Point Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Beergium. Aroma is fruity hops, citrus, orange, soft pale malt, grapefruit, mango, fruit peel. Flavour is mildly sweet with a bitter finish. Medium bodied. Lovely fruity APA, lots of tropical fruits and citrus with nice bitterness.
tricksta_p (13806) reviewed Wahoo from Ballast Point Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Beergium. Aroma is bready wheat, peppery yeast, citrus, hay, lemon, with soft spicy notes. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter. Body is light to medium. Decent, but fairly ordinary Witbier.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Beergium. Always a treat opening a Ballast Point bottle whilst enjoying the refined label art. Roasty aroma with dark malt, coffee, cocoa, dark chocolate, and a hint of hops. Flavour is moderate to medium sweet with a medium roasty hoppy bitter finish. Body is medium. Great Stout, lots of roasty coffee chocolate flavours with a potent bittersweet flavour. Solid!
tricksta_p (13806) reviewed Sculpin IPA from Ballast Point Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle from a gas station near Reno, Nevada. Aroma is juicy hops, intense tropical fruits, grapefruit, soft biscuity malt, citrus, orange, some pine resin. Flavour is light to moderate sweet with a firm bitter finish. Body is medium. Amazingly balanced hoppy fruits basket, one of the finest if not the finest well-rounded example of the style I’ve enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from a supermarket in California. Aroma is strong orange creamsickle with orange zest, tangerine, and creamy vanilla. Flavour is moderate to medium sweet and bitter. Body is medium. Their goal to create the beer equivalent of an orange creamsickle was definitely attained, very fruity and creamy. I found it interesting but a bit much overall, a novelty beer.
tricksta_p (13806) reviewed Even Keel from Ballast Point Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Sterk Amsterdam. Aroma is fruity hops, tropical fruits, orange, pine, biscuity pale malt, grapefruit, hint of caramel. Flavour is moderate sweet and medium bitter. Body is medium, very clever for a 3.8%. Sessionable but doesn't compromise in any way.