BoiseBrewBlog (9108) reviewed K-Lax from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From a can classic hazy lightbpale orange yellow. Great sharp clean pithy citrus aromas and flavors. Quite bitter and dry. Very nice
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed K-Lax from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
16oz can pours out a hazy straw color topped with a white head. Nose is nice sweet malts tropical fruit pineapple . Taste is more of the nice sweet malts tropical fruit hops citrus.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed K-Lax from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured up on tap at BRI where it exhibits a totally opaque dull gold body that supports a dirty white head of foam. The aroma offers up mango, cantaloupe, earthy grassy hops and then soft oat. The taste delivers smooth berry notes leaning towards strawberry and then it gets into mild juicy mango and cantaloupe flowing into grassy, spicy and even pineapple like bitter hops. This is pretty nice. Soft juicy sweet notes supported weakly by some hop bitterness. It could use a tiny bit more hoppy balance to temper the soft sweetness.
Rennat42 (5616) reviewed Peach Among Worlds from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft/Fest. A- Peach, gummy bears. A- Yellow color, cloudy liquid, white head. T- Peach, gummies. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- Balanced. Lots of juicy gummy bear like qualities but slightly fake tasting. Not bad.
Rennat42 (5616) reviewed Frontside IPA from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft/Fest. A- Citrus, caramel. A- Copper color, clear liquid, white head. T- Pine, caramel, citrus. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, bitter finish. O- Okay. Lots of tropical citrus notes.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Insomniac from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a crystal clear deep gold body that supports a nice white head. The modest aroma offers up malt nuanced pineapple, some thin cantaloupe and then a sliver of citrus with a bit of pine hops toward the end of the draw. The taste delivers rich fairly thick smooth flavor and bitter hops with apricot, strawberry and pineapple as well as some modest grapefruit and kind of a pine hop bitterness. It picks up some thin yet nice orange and tangelo like juicy hop flavor to midway. This is a really nice, sink your teeth into it IIPA. I’ll do this again anytime.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Deadbolt from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a deep dark used motor oil colored body that supports a mocha colored head. The aroma offers up dark roasted malts, chocolate brownie and then thin oak and bourbon notes. The taste delivers chewy spicy oak and bourbon and then flowing quickly into deep dark roasted malts. To midway some oaky sweet vanilla and chocolate join in creating some rewarding depth and added richness. Really nice sipper with pleasing roastiness and balance with the barrel treatment.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed NellyFonzArelly from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a crystal clear pure gold body that supports a thin white head of foam. The aroma offers up flowery guava, pineapple, cantaloupe and lime cotton candy. The taste delivers pineapple, thin guava and some modest spicy bitter hoppiness. It gets floral and flowery to midway with a lime like nuances. It ends with lingering pineapple and a nice cracker maltiness that comes to the surface injecting a malty aspect to the experience.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Leave it to the Tortoise from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
32oz growler pours with a modestly hazy pale gold body that has a thin copper hue and supports a tall light tan head. The aroma offers up grapefruit, lime peel, a dash of lemon and then thinly bright floral hop notes above a sliver of bready maltiness. The taste comes across kind of tart citrus fruit with bitter grapefruit, some lemon and a dash of lime. To midway more and more bitter floral hop notes hit to ramp up the hop bitterness a bit more. Behind all of the bitter hops is a mild murmur of maltiness that has a faint bready quality to it. This is bitter forward and it works but not really in my wheel house. Glad to be trying but wouldn’t grab anymore.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Knarbar from 12 West Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured up at AZ Strong Beer Fest 2017 where it exhibits a clear deep copper body that has amber hues and supports a tall fluffy tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts, a dash of roasted malts, some spicy wood leading to kind of a bourbon booziness. The taste delivers some sweetness but then quickly gets into firm spicy oak notes. Then to midway boozy bourbon takes over and it seems to lack that smoothness some bourbon aged beers can have. This is still a pretty tasty sipper. After a few more ounces a light sense of sweet dark fruity esters start to become apparent and this helps create a little more balance and softness up next to the more rugged booziness.