Counter Weight Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Cheshire,
Connecticut,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Counter Weight Brewing Company
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours clear gold into a stein. Off-white soapy head with medium retention recedes leaving no lacing to hug rim. Tart citrus aromas. Soft with sweet light honey, citrus and meadow upfront turning to earthy multigrain sourdough and dry tannins in the medium length finish.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2024
at 22:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can at home on back patio on lovely evening. Rich gold pour and foamy white head. Nose is herbal and honey. Tastes of honey, bready, peppery, and herbal. Chewy palate.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jun 2024
at 23:15
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours pale golden with a thick white head, pours almost flat. Aroma of light resin, some pine. Taste has a full body of yeast, some malt, grapefruit, citrus, etc. Palate is mildly grassy, has some hop oils, more pine and resin to round it out. Not bad.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2024
at 02:09
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can at Ardes residence, Vallila. Thanks Arde! Color is very cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, some tropical fruits, hops and malts. Juice and fresh!
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jun 2024
at 08:27
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Canned 5/10/24, drunk 5/30/24. Very bright, deep bronze-maize. Small, white head, clumps at edges immediately. Sweet, rich honey and bread from the polished malts with clean yeast and fresh, herbal hops. Peppery hops up front immediately brighten the beer and it quickly transitions to rich honey and fresh baguette-like malts. Good depth and attenuation. More herbal and peppery hop reprise on the finish. Very clean. Lovely.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2024
at 20:50
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Canned 3/28/24, drunk 4/29/24. Moderately hazy, brass-golden-bronze. Large, white, well-retained head. Lots of tropical fruit mixing with spice and citrus. Complex, bright, with generous acidity (no resin, punch) and supportive malt in the form of honey and cracker-like character. Clean, not boozey. Great stone fruit character with a pinch of pineapple and good minerality. Bright, hoppy, amply bitter. Malty and dry with lingering spice, bits of lemon and lemongrass and substantial bitterness. Definitely not your average New England IPA (or rather, IPA from New England) and pretty surprising how much acidity there still is in this at a month old. That said, the malt is fantastically deep here and balances quite well. Maybe a bit too heavy on the pineapple and lemon rind, but otherwise fantastic stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Apr 2024
at 23:20
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Canned 4/11, drunk 4/25/24. Moderately cloudy, white-golden. Fluffy, white head, slowly to cover. Really lovely nose is full of rich mineral, sweat, funk and must with a dusting of citrus, no clove or white pepper and importantly, very little bubble gum. Cracker, biscuit, cream of wheat...clean, mild, mellow, but still aromatic. Soft, malty, wheat-slick texture with good attenuation. Moderate bubble gum but it's interwoven with the fruitier, more phenolic (but not clovey) Belgian yeast. This is one of the more Belgian pale ale or saison-leaning wits I've ever had - the yeast doesn't pump out the usual insipid wit character of heavy white pepper, clove and heavy bubble gum. No overdone adjuncts, not sweet or watery.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2024
at 14:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can at home watching some tv. Hazy orange yellow and fluffy head. Nose is wheat and bubblegum. Tastes of banana, wheat, bubblegum, lemons. Light and fruity. N
Tried
from Can
on 26 Apr 2024
at 03:21
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
New brewery ticking. Clearish gold and sudsy head. Nose is floral and some bread. Tastes bready, light lime, white pepper, white wine. Muddled palate.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2024
at 03:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Canned 4/5/24, drunk 4/24/24. Clear, brassy-golden. Small, white head, quickly to partial cover. delightful, lush, herbaceous hops with a crisp yeast and ample, honey-like malts throughout. Clean and balanced. Very carbonated, but it's not pricly/sharp. Malty, good attenuation. Lots of biscuit and honey. More herbal flavors than actual bitterness from the hops. Moderately crisp finish. Very clean. Maybe a bit of vanilla and harsh bitterness on the very end. A bit of thinning, as well.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Apr 2024
at 00:04