Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Black's Twilight from Cismontane Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours black with a thick tan head that diminishes gradually to a film. Patchy lacing on the glass. Aroma of oaky bourbon, malt, dark fruit and vanilla. Full-bodied with flavors of oaky vanilla, roast malt, bourbon and black cherry. The finish is oaky and fruity with a bourbon and malt aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can at home from Freshfields in Croydon. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Aroma is grass, malt, peach and a little Sour note. Taste is butterscotch, toffee, malt and a little grass. Not too bad.
Amarillo (2499) reviewed Double Rainbow IPA from Cismontane Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6
Fat chapterhouse Växjö. Mörkrostad nästan röd halvgrumlig . Doftar tungt fylligt av blött gräs lite ladugård..omedelbart extremt fylligt i munnen. Smaker då? Jo tung jordkällare. Druvor , ektunna. Tung fyllig Dipa i gammal stil . God Men visst får bara 3,8 av mig så det finns mååånga steg upp till topp betyget 5,0 även om den är god .
bhensonb (22605) reviewed 6th Anniversary Porter from Cismontane Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from CraftShack. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of med dark treacle. Med + or even ++ body. Flavor is mixed anise/darkish treacle. Carbonation isn’t spritely but has put that in my mind. It’s not sticky. Not getting chocolate. Might be something like birch or maple syrup. The dryness level makes be think birch. Not a hint of heat for me. It’s pretty good ale.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Black's Dawn from Cismontane Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
My first from this Californian brewing company, heavy stout with added coffee. Bottle from Beergium, with different label than the one shown here. Yellowish pale beige, moussy head retaining as a dense rim and some flat, tan ’islands’ in the middle, crowning a black beer with hazy mahogany brown edges, the colour being visible for about five millimeters inwards. Aroma of cold coffee with milk, very old black chocolate and ’crude’ baker’s chocolate, moldy walnuts, tree leaves, old tea, cooked parsnip, brown rum, wet leather, dried fig, stewed beef with a lot of bayleaf in it, mud, freshly cut horseradish, a kind of ’green’ quality of raw spinach leaves, subtle accents of soy sauce, wet dog and dried blackcurrant. Clean onset, ’dull’ dried berry sourishness imbedding a vague fig-like sweetish core, umami effects of dry chicken stock cubes coming up shortly after that and quite expressively so, medium carbo, thick and lightly greasy mouthfeel but not as viscous as is often the case in this style. Thick nutty malt core, again vaguely sweetish but immediately turned towards a fairly strong toasted bitterness, exhibiting increasing coffeeish aspects towards the finish, where the added coffee indeed reveals itself clearly - but sadly not as aromatically and ’ethereal’ as I was hoping for. Ends a bit harsh and crude, with this toasted malt bitterness going down alongside the coffee grounds-like flavours, a herbal hop bitter aspect and softly but unmistakably warming, wodka-like alcohol. Bitter black coffee flavours remain stuck to the throat after swallowing, as I assume was the intention. Not sure about this one: it has an earthy, bit ’dirty’ quality to it which I was not expecting, and the coffee factor should have been more expressively aromatic, though the coffee flavour as such is certainly there; let’s say that I was expecting a fine Italian ristretto rather than drab, dull and ’generic’ coffee grounds from a coffee machine. Needs finetuning and a lot more personality to stand out in a sea of great American stouts.
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed Double Rainbow IPA from Cismontane Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
At Linköping Beer Expo 2017. A bit hazy amber with a small head. Aroma and taste of grapefruit, some malt, grass and caramel. The body was medium and the finish fairly bitter.
mart (27297) reviewed Black's Dawn from Cismontane Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle (as "Cismontane Imperial Stout with Coffee Added", 8.5% from beergium). Pours dark brown with light brownish head. Aroma is beany, coffee, roast, fruits, sour notes, booze. Flavor is sweet and bitter, beany, coffee, malt, fruits, fructose, roast, something medicinal - iodine maybe. Finish is coffee and sweetness with more beaniness and booze. Overall: feels like kind of crappy recipe and beany coffee notes are just trying to cover it. Then again I can drink it without effort, so not even close to the sh*t zone for me.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Coulter IPA from Cismontane Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from The Bottle Shop Canterbury and drunk at home. Clear amber colour with a lasting beige head. Quite an earthy ipa. Now that is odd. It tastes like some of the homebrew I’ve made. Some bitterness. Some cereal on the aroma. As I say odd. Not my kind of thing.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Beer Blager from Cismontane Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Craft Beer Kings. Pours brown with a transient tan head. Aroma hints of sour with fruits and arguably bourbon. Med body or so. Flavor is slightly sour, woody, treacle, mixed fruits, bourbon. It’s not a painful sour, but it is sour. With time the bourbon develops a bit. As does mixed "light" fruit. Some musty wood is in the mix.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Beer Blager from Cismontane Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled. A red beer with a tan head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and bourbon. The flavor is sweet with notes of bourbon, malt, caramel, and brettanomyces, leading to a tart finish.