Drake (22934) reviewed Pint O Joe from Smokehouse Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Served on draft at the Smokehouse location. Pours a dark ruby color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of rich coffee notes, chocolate and sweet roasted malts. The taste is roasted malts, bitter coffee and chocolate. Thin-medium bodied. Nice.
Drake (22934) reviewed Platinum Blonde from Smokehouse Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Served on draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear golden color with a medium sized creamy white head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of grainy malts and faint nutty notes. The taste is earthy and nutty notes, sweet malts, butter and a bit of grass. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the Oak Room during OBW. Pours pale hazy golden with white head. Some lacing, medium carbonation, and light body. Taste is estery malt. Not much cherry, but pretty good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at the Smokehouse. Pours a clear golden color with a thin white head that evaporates to an outer ring quickly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of fruit and wheat. Medium, clean body with flavors of wheaty malt, mild hops and cherries. The finish is mildly tart fruit with a touch of hops poking through. Fairly average overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Firkin version at Barley’s 9th Annual Mini RAF (05/14/11): The beer is a mostly clear copper color with a medium thin off-white head that recedes steadily. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Citrusy aroma with malt notes. Medium body with flavors of citrusy hops and toasted malt. The finish is fruity with touches of malt and pine left over. Decent overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Sample at Barley’s Smokehouse. The beer pours black with a medium tan head that recedes steadily. Small patches of lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, vinegar and tart fruit. Medium body with flavors of tart berries, roasted malt, yeast and hay. The finish is tart up front with a syrupy sweet fruit aftertaste. The server admitted that "something got into" this beer and that they decided to run with it. I do not feel this was a good decision.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
5 oz sampler off of the Beer Engine at the brew pub (#2) in Columbus, Ohio. Server described this as a stout that some of the brewery’s wild yeast got into, causing some tartness. Pour is a hazed brown ruby with hardly any khaki head. Aroma is sweet cherry tartness, along with honey. Pretty odd nose, but certainly unique. Taste is a syrupy cherry raspberry, mildly tart, bordering on cloyingly sweet. The sour had a bit of a medicinal infected quality to it. There is also a honey grassiness involved, along with a mild roast quality. The cherry tart, sort of sour, lingers long into the finish. Palate is more or less flat, medium bodied, with the mentioned tart sour finish. Not sure what they were going for here, and if it was more of a "happy accident" sort of beer, it didn’t really work for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On cask at Barley’s Smokehouse, served in a snifter. The beer is a reddish-brown color with a medium thin off-white head that recedes quickly. Spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma of sweet malt, cinnamon and oak. Medium, smooth body with a light oak character and flavors of caramel malt, vanilla, fruit and spice. The finish is sweetly spiced with a malty aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On draught at Barley’s Smokehouse. The beer is a murky brownish-amber color with a thin tan head that recedes to an outer ring quickly. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of caramel malt and fruit. Medium body with flavors of toasted malt, caramel and ripe fruits. The finish is sweet and malty with a lingering fruity finish. Above average overall.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed VS ESB from Smokehouse Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On draught at the brewpub. This brew is a dark amber-orange color with a medium thin and foamy off-white head that recedes steadily. Top ring of lacing with spots beneath. Grainy malt and hops in the nose. Medium body with flavors of sweet bready malt, caramel and hops. The finish is malty up front with a mildly bitter hops aftertaste. Decent overall.