Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to snifter.
Appearance: black in color with a finger's worth of khaki foamy head which dissipated fairly quick to a good pace and didn't leave any lace
Aroma: dark chocolate, milk chocolate, vanilla, animal cracker sweetness, bourbon barrel/woody sweetness & it's subtle spiciness, coffee roastiness and dark fruits
Flavor: sweet and roasty up front through the prior noted aromas then some of the spiciness from the barrel slides in underneath; finishes sweet, roasty and spicy through the chocolate, dark fruits the barrel notes and coffee tones.
Texture: medium bodied, great sipper, some very good smoothness and an ever so slight dry tone in there
Overall: an absolutely awesome barrel aged RIS very worthy of my time.
CoastGuardVet (9444) reviewed Kölschtastic from Gigantic Brewing 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to stange glass.
Appearance: straw yellow color with some transparency about it; two finger white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: sweet grains, floral and grassy hops, light bready malts
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet and lightly hoppy quality; finishes sweet and malty
Texture: light bodied, sessionable, smooth along the tongue with an ever so slight dryness
Overall: a very nicely done Kolsch I would definitely have again.
Kita (5378) reviewed Pipewrench from Gigantic Brewing 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
0.50l bottle, shared with Ales. Aroma is tropical fruity, citrusy and malty with juniper note. Pours hazy amber brown color with large soapy off-white head and average sparkling
appearance. Taste starts refreshing tropical fruity and grassy, follows by juniper and tannins, mouthfeel is smooth, while finish is average bitter. Medium body, slick texture and average carbonation in palate. Gin gin ginnie…
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
500ml @ SF shared with Brian, Phill, and Ryan.
Aroma: American oak, some sweetness, noticeable barrel, a bit inky.
Taste: along the same lines, quite roasty, a lot of toasted barrel.
Overall: too aggressive toasted barrel here, I really prefer the whiskey variant.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
500ml @ SF shared with Brian, Phill, and Ryan. 2025 vintage.
Aroma: American oak, some sweetness and whiskey flavour.
Taste: along the same lines, moderately thick, a lot of whiskey notes, toasted barrel.
Overall: nice experience, first time I found this much of whiskey flavour with beer being boozy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Poured from 500mL bottle (2025 vintage, blue label; 12% abv). Side by side with Westward Whiskey variant. Very dark brown with minimal beige head. Very green wood forward, soft bourbon underlay, not a lot of nuance here. Prefer Westward, but only by a touch. Neither are especially complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Poured from 500mL bottle (2025 vintage, red label; 12% abv). Side by side with bourbon barrel variant. Very dark brown with minimal beige head. Slightly softer green wood note with a more robust bourbon underlay. Whiskey feature beer, prefer this over the bourbon variant just by a touch. Neither are especially complex.
Troopie (5756) reviewed Pay Czech from Gigantic Brewing 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark brown body with off white head. Pleasant aroma, malt with some flower aroma. Malty taste, bready and tasty. Long over the tongue finish.
Troopie (5756) reviewed Can You Dig It? from Gigantic Brewing 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Gold body with thin fast disappearing white head. Light faint citrus aroma. Hoppy taste, citrus and tropical fruit. Medium finish.
CoastGuardVet (9444) reviewed Axes of Evil from Gigantic Brewing 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to English pint glass.
Appearance: murky dark copper to almost brown with a finger's worth of white foamy head which slid off at a delicate pace to leave some light lace
Aroma: some floral leafy hoppy tones with some earthy hop tones then some orange to citrusy hop tones (somewhat like an American styled way of hopping), hmmmmm, this might be an interesting beer, the malts seem fairly biscuity and bready with a touch of buttery quality (not diacetyl) but actually buttery quality as if they put butter in this
Flavor: seems to blend the prior noted aromas together fairly nice and comes across somewhat clean as far as I can tell; finishes earthy hopped with the citrusy hops and the malts seem a bit cleaner than other EPA's I've had.
Texture: light to medium bodied, some sessionability to this one. fairly smooth along the tongue, bitterness is fairly low
Overall: so it's labeled an English pale ale on here and well, I liked it for me and oddly enough, some American pale ale fans might like this one too.