Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Amber with a medium sized foamy white head. Malty and grainy with cracker, honey and fruity hops. Medium finish and body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bright golden with a large head that lingered. Yeasty and grainy with a hint of band aid, light perfume and a bit of vague fruit. Medium finish & body.
notalush (7339) reviewed Colorado Cache from Diebolt Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap at the brewery - clear copper - lovely rich malt base on this - crusty bread, honey - hop bitterness is higher than you’d expect in the style, but it works, and adds a nice floral character - finishes dry, but with a lingering malt richness - it’s nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a cloudy gold with a average white head. Aroma is pale malt and Belgian yeast esters. Flavor is very clean with more pale malt with some green hops and Belgian candi. Kind of going in the direction of a Duvel clone but not carbonated enough. Worthy of a pick up though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a clear copper with a large white head. Aroma is brown ale malt with a bit of cocoa powder. Flavor is like a gingerbread cookie bready and sweet with a little unknown spice. Decent malty and rich with some sweet sugar notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pour is a clear gold with a large white head. Aroma is generic fruity hops with some honey malt. Flavor is a blueberry like fruit with some dry chalky malt. Decent, no frills clear beer IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can from the brewery - viscous black pour - smells largely of medium-grade coffee (think Starbucks), with some chocolate and mild toasted coconut - flavor is abrasive coffee acidity, chocolate, vanilla, dark fruit - oily mouthfeel - end medium-sweet, with moderate lingering acidity from the coffee - it’s alright.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can from the brewery - viscous black pour - nose of brown sugar, rum, treacle, plum - very sweet, with a lot of caramelized sugar character - mild to moderate rum character - raisin fairly apparent - tamarind, plum, kumquat, slight umami on the back end - quite sweet/sugary, but some decent complexity redeems that a bit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can from the brewery - viscous black pour - was really interested to try this one, as it seems like an interesting experiment that could easily go awry - the nose is big on cab, with the balsamic flitting around the edges - the sweetness, chocolate, and vanilla flavors of the base beer remain prevalent, with the barrel adding some tannins and cab adding some juicy dark fruit - the balsamic certainly adds some acidity, which might be off-putting to some (at times I do find it a little overdone) - I used to buy the chocolate balsamic from EVOO and pour it on cheesecake - this reminds me of that to a degree - I sometimes put in too much, too - ultimately, the vinegar leaves it just slightly too acidic, but not enough that I won’t enjoy it enough to leisurely sip the glass - not a failed experiment, but needs some tweaking.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pour is a crystal clear gold with a large foamy white head. Aroma is grain with a little lemon hops. Flavor is again grainy, clean and crisp. Finish is dry and gone in a second. The can looks like a PBR can and the beer kind of drinks like a PBR but with a bit more hop bitterness.