Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at the River Road Tavern
Pours a hazy deep gold without much of a head when it gets tot the table. Fruity earthy tart nose and flavor. tasty and quenched the fire of the wings pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: murky plum-like fleshy red color with a finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: tart red currant and tart black currant tones, milk sugar (and seems like there's a ton of it) with vanilla & marshmallow notes too
Flavor: more tart than sour but a huge milk sugary sweetness; finishes with a blend of the currants and milk sugary/vanilla/marshmallow-y tones
Texture: medium bodied, mostly a sipper, exceptionally creamy smooth along the tongue
Overall: to me this is more of a tart fruited milkshake ale. It's not bad but where are the IPA qualities?
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: bronzed copper color with a two finger white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: grassy, floral, subtle citrusy hoppiness with a crackery maltiness
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to bittersweet quality; finishes grassy and citrusy hoppy smooth
Texture: medium bodied, between sessionable and being a sipper, good smoothness
Overall: good as an American DIPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: black in color with a finger and a half's worth of eggshell white foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: deep black coffee - very roasty, toasty a touch of sweet with dark chocolate and milk chocolate, subtle caramel/toffee malts deeper down in there
Flavor: wraps up the prior noted aromas to roasty to sweet blend; finishes roasty and sweet through the coffee
Texture: medium bodied, good as a sipper, some smoothness and a light dryness on the tongue
Overall: a very energetic coffee forward impy stout that I would welcome again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: black in color and a one finger khaki foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: peanut butter - sweet, savory, salty and nutty tones up front with milk chocolate, black coffee, roastiness, toastiness and some clean biscuity malts
Flavor: meshes the prior noted aromas together in a sweet, savory and roasty manner; finishes peanut buttery and milk chocolatey
Texture: medium bodied, leaning towards being a sipper; some smoothness along the tongue but also some roasty semi-assertive tones
Overall: nicely done peanut butter stout as I think this may have been the most peanut butter forward beer I've had to date.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Reviewe from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: murky dark red/mahogany-ish color with a finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: black cherry sweetness, vanilla/lactose building from underneath
Flavor: melds the prior noted aromas sweetly; finishes black cherry sweet with the vanilla
Texture: medium bodied, somewhat sessionable, very smooth and creamy along the tongue
Overall: now I know this is a milkshake styled IPA so these styles tend to have very low bitterness to practically none at all, well, I guess I found one that basically doesn't have any bitterness and it doesn't have any tart aspects from the black cherries, to me this is just an okay beer and I would rather have a different milkshake IPA that might have a little bit more going on.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: semi-murky orange color with a two and a half fingers of white foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: ligh tropical fruity hop tones with some hop spice and white grape to melon like tones
Flavor: combines the prior noted aromas to a bittersweet blend with a finish of semi-spicy to white grape to subtle tropical fruity
Texture: light to medium bodied, light sessionability, nice semi-low carb, very smooth along the tongue, very low bitterness
Overall: nice enough NEIPA I could possibly come back to.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Reviewed from notes.
Can to tulip.
Appearance: hazy orange color with a one finger white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: light pumpkin, vanilla, nutmeg and allspice are the big parts up front then some fluffy marshmallow/milk sugar-y tones underneath
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a decent sweet to semi-spicy character; finishes with the nutmeg, allspice and pumpkin
Texture: light to medium bodied, some kind of sessionability about this. Very smooth along the tongue with substantial creaminess and the spices do not make any assertive presence here
Overall: well it works for your basic white girl Halloween beer, me, eh it's alright.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Reviewed from notes.
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: bright yellow semi-hazy in color with a two finger white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: lemon to grassy hoppines, clean biscuity malts
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas together in a fine malty to light hoppy tone; finishes malty with a light lemony hoppy tone
Texture: light to medium bodied, great sessionability, fairly smooth along the tongue, barely any bitterness touching the tongue
Overall: a very nice easy going APA worth having again next to my grill.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Reviewed from notes.
Can to becher glass.
Appearance: thick orange color with a finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: mango sweetness; vanilla sweetness, lactose and a ton of extra sweet cream
Flavor: blends all the prior noted aromas together in a super sweet and creamy way; finishes with the sweet cream, lactose and vanilla with barely any mango
Texture: medium to full bodied, between sessionable and being a sipper; extremely smooth and creamy along the tongue; bitterness seems barely there
Overall: maybe I should stop rating "milkshake IPA's" because someone out there loves this style and me, well, I'm trying my hardest to understand them but seem to be at a loss, I guess.