Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: brassy copper color with a quickly dissipating foamy to fizzy sort of head which didn't leave any lace
Aroma: peanut butter - yes, strawberry jelly - yes, and the marshmallows - yes again
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet to nutty and fruity toned quality with an extremely light salty tone from the peanut butter; finishes with a little bit of a tart character
Texture: light to medium bodied, and again with the sessionability as the tart and sour characters seem to be more or less just there in a semi-faint way
Overall: as a pastry tart ale it works. It's well brewed, there's that.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
Can to snifter.
Appearance: glossy red/maroon color with a quickly dissipating fizzy to foamy head which didn't leave any lace
Aroma: white chocolate tones in front with the cherry sweetness and tartness subsiding underneath
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a fair tart to sweet to semi-sour quality; finishes semi-chocolatey with a touch of sour cherry
Texture: medium bodied, somewhat sessionable - oddly enough, and there's some smoothness to this beer; the sour and tart tones are way tamer than I would have thought
Overall: as a pastry sour ale this is well brewed and I could have it again in that respect.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: dark purple almost black in color with a thin cap of an off white foamy head which dissipated fairly quick and didn't leave any lace. As I sipped this beer, what looked like some kind of particles I think from grape skin - maybe were seen sticking to the sides of the glass
Aroma: this is basically liquified peanut butter and grape jelly with a little bit of vanilla in there - so it's pretty sweet and semi-salty with a little bit of nuttiness
Flavor: pretty much mirrors the aromas in a sweet fruity to nutty and semi-marshmallow-like way; then there's the finish - it's tart and semi-sour and that's why we have a pastry sour here
Texture: medium bodied, and sessionable! - wow, I wasn't expecting that; and plenty of smoothness
Overall: what an odd beer but somehow turns out exactly what Kettlehead and Branch & Blade were going for. Strangely enough, I would come back to this. Appearance was marked down because of the strange particles I didn't know what they were.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Romans are citrus, resin, malt, melon and floral. Flavors are similar to nose with malt sweet coming out more. Good body and decent carbonation. Good but not great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: burnt orange haziness with a two finger white foamy head which took it's time to dissipate then once it did light lace stuck to the glass
Aroma: mixed citrusy hops in front then some mixed dark berry-ish hops a touch underneath, then it has a nice lemony hop layer then underneath that some biscuity malts
Flavor: takes the prior noted aromas to blend very nicely towards a bittersweet to sweet juicy clean quality; finishes citrusy and lemony
Texture: light to medium bodied, somewhat sessionable; nice smoothness; no hop bitterness assertiveness anywhere
Overall: a very nicely done NEDIPA well worthy of returning to.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: murky orange color with a quickly dieing head which barely left any lace
Aroma: sweet citrusy hops with floral hops and noticeable bubblegum, light notes of bready malts
Flavor: seems to mesh those aromas to a sweet quality with a lighter bitterness to it but nothing really juicy in any sort of strength; finishes bubblegum-like and citrusy
Texture: medium bodied, somewhat sessionable, some smoothness, but kinda watery
Overall: something seems pretty off with this one, uhmmm, I think I got snuck an old can of this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: murky orange cloudiness with a finger and a quarter of white foamy head which gracefully died off to leave some light lace
Aroma: mixed citrusy hop notes with a stabilizing piney hop embrace then subtle lemony hops in the secondary; clean malts underneath
Flavor: melds the prior noted aromas to a fine bittersweet semi-juicy to a sweet candied juiciness; finishes grapefruity and piney
Texture: light to medium bodied, sessionable; some smoothness but also a little bit of hop assertiveness
Overall: to me, it's a pretty nicely done NEIPA I could come back to.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: murky orange color with a two and a half fingers of white foamy head which settled off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: honeydew, lemon and light tangerine notes; biscuity malt backbone
Flavor: melds the prior noted aromas to a fine semi-juicy bittersweet to sweet quality; finishes leaning into the lemon and tangerine notes
Texture: light to medium bodied, somewhat sessionable; nice smoothness and no hop assertiveness at all
Overall: I say a very nicely done NEIPA well worth coming back to.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can pour from the River Road Tavern
Hazy medium golden color with a decent sized off white head that persists.
Dripping with juicy fruity aroma and flavor with light bready malt to counter. Wow that is good.
poisoneddwarf (5540) reviewed Q from Kettlehead Brewing Company 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz can. Aroma is cantaloupe, biscuity malt, freshly chopped wood, garden peas. Pours murky burnt orange with a giant pillowy cream-white head that recedes slowly. Taste has a mild pithy bitterness that builds a little bit on the palate. Some savoriness. Alcohol hidden fairly well. Creamy mouthfeel.
gave a cheers!