deyholla (22839) reviewed Hoponius Union from Jack's Abby Craft Lagers 13 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to Alex! Pours a clear gold with a white head that lasts throughout the beer and laces beautifully. Aroma has a great combination of bitter citrus and light pine with just a touch of grain backing. Flavor starts with pine and bitter citrus and has a biscuit note that grows through the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle in NYC. Pours clear, muted gold with a small, white cream head. Pale, doughy malts on the nose. Medium sweet flavor with further doughy, bredy malts, light grains and hay, faint herbal notes. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet but not cloying finish with rich bread, hints of alcohol, mild cereal, touhes of bitter straw. Nicely balanced heller bock - which is an accomplishment.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours deep gold into a Sam glass. Off-white head with medium retention recedes leaving sheet lacing to coat surface. Sweet caramel and nut aromas. Soft with sweet caramel and malt upfront turning dry in the lasting pumpernickel bagel finish.
Earlier Rating: 4/6/2012 Total Score: 3.8
Tap. Pours gold into a shaker. White head recedes to hug rim. Sweet caramel and rye aromas. Medium balanced and slick with upfront caramel turning to a dry, lasting earthy pumpernickel finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
50cl bottle pours a clear amber with some cloudy, eggshell head. Aroma is nice, grainy, malt, some yeast, a little brie rind, light herbal tea. Flavor is excellent, malty, lightly toasty, light cracker, a little cheese, rye, nutty, pencil shavings. Dry, toasty, slightly creamy finish. Really solid.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bright golden 2 finger creamy solid white head Lovely nose of pine and tangerine skins. Zesty and full of simcoe and maybe warrior hops. Taste is piney, slightly sweet. Honey and grapefruits at the finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ home via trade with Ernesto987. Thanks! Pours a hazy dark brown appearance with a nice brown head. Mild dark fruity (plum, fig), light leather, slightly burnt/smoky, nutty caramel, grassy aroma. Somewhat sweet caramel malty, toasty, a bit burnt, lightly smoked, chocolate, a bit nutty flavor. The smoke is very slight but the beer is overall pretty solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ home via trade with Ernesto987. Thanks again! Pours a hazy orangish brown appearance with a creamy, light brown head. Grape, plum, a bit nutty, light bubblegum, toasted malty, light caramel aroma. Brown sugar, toffee, fairly nutty, caramel, somewhat chewy malty flavor that is smooth and actually well attenuated. The carbonation seems a bit higher than I would like and there is some booze on the finish but this is a solid doppelbock.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Good shit. 500mL bottle poured into a plastic cup at a hotel room while I watch Mark Wahlberg in Contraband, which pairs well with the beer. Despite all this the beer looks good. It pours with a medium thick head that leaves behind a slug of lacing. The beer, well, its almost a perfect melding of schwarz and rauch, equal parts represented without either dominating. The shwarz has a great chocolate lagered aspect and a smoked element that is present but nicely subdued into the black lager. Super clean with no flaws and so damn quaffable, I drank this up like it was nothing in a few minutes. I only picked up a single but I see why these are sold in 4 packs that were priced for $10.50, which seems like a great price point for such quality.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ home via trade with Ernesto987. Thanks! Pours a hazy dark golden appearance with a bubbly/spider web, off white head. So,ewhat piney, a bit resiny, light citrusy, fresh hoppy, a bit chewy yeasty, toasty malty aroma. Big rich grapefruit citrusy, chewy yeasty, a bit bready, cracker, grassy flavor. Kick ass session brew that is kind of fun to chug. I’d probably reclassify this as a Zwickel in style.
LeninCat (7983) reviewed Jabby Bräu from Jack's Abby Craft Lagers 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ home via trade with Ernesto987. Thanks a bunch! Pours a hazy golden appearance with a nice creamy khaki head. Sweet toasty malty, cracker, light lemon, a bit herbal, grassy hoppy aroma. Slightly sweet, toasted cracker malty, grassy, straw labor with a fairly balanced finish. A touch sweet and slightly pedestrian but a really solid lager and probably a good session beer.