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At Branch and Blade we believe in constantly innovating the world of craft beer. Our goal is to deliver a variety of well-crafted beers of the highest quality. Additionally, we enjoy trying new styles and pushing the limits of our own creativity.
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can pour from Beer and Wine Nation. It's an opaque light brown-dark yellow with light sparkle, a few large, dark floaties, thin cap of off-white foam head with poor retention and trace lacing. Aroma is strong pineapple rind and grape with mild tart fruit. Taste follows aroma with addition of melon, dank vegetal and late grain. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with thick, frothy texture, average-to-lively carbonation, no sign of alcohol and dry finish as taste. Overall, good strength and complexity, particularly in flavor.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Apr 2022
at 02:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours clear deep gold into an English pint. Bright soapy white head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Pith and peel aromas. Crisp with overwhelmingly tart lemon, lime, and tangerine upfront turning to an earthy sourdough and pith finish.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2022
at 21:56
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draught at Tip Tap Room, 3/31/22. Heavily hazy/cloudy, deep bronze-caramel-golden with a small, yellow-tinted head showing low retention. Smells like pineapple/pineapple sugar and a succulent cherry-vanilla character that must be the interplay of yeast/malt/fruit. But it definitely smells like a hella sweet Mai Tai, though it's not boozy and I don't get much, if any, beer character nor lactic acidity. In the mouth it's crazy sweet up front with huge pineapple-cherry notes that thankfully get somewhat balanced by a strong acidity that could be the pineapple acid. Some light lactic character and/or wheat dryness lingers, but phew...that is incredibly sweet and syrupy. Like some of the flavors, but it just needs more attenuation.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2022
at 00:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz. can. Pours a murky, pinkish color, with a ton of chucks and pieces floating. I know they're fine in smoothie types of beer, but I can't repress the gag reflex, seeing them. The nose is lime, passion fruit, big peanut butter, caramel, and pineapple. Sweet and citrusy, with a lot of acidity. Thick and chunky. Fun and interesting, if a bit overdone.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Mar 2022
at 20:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from the Packie Lightly hazy light gold in color with a good sized bubbly white head that slowly recedes. Ginger, lime, and funk on the nose. Flavor is lemony and lime tart with a decent shot of ginger and bits of sweet floral fruitiness. Very Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2022
at 03:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can pour from Beer and Wine Nation, Merrimack. It's an opaque dark yellow with no sparkle, finger-width white foamy head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is bright citrus, dank, herbal. Taste is mix of citrus and herb--less well defined and bright than the aroma (but better as it warms)--and background bread. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, average-to-lively carbonation and crisp, dry finish as taste. Overall, taste doesn't quite live up to the aroma but improves as it warms. A little overcarbonated.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Nov 2021
at 01:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can at home. Normally not what I’d buy but chasing new breweries leads me around and this is pleasant. Super thick purple. Nose is boysenberry mostly. Tastes similar but get prickly pear, some lemon, lactic acid, fruit skins. Some tartness.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Sep 2021
at 01:41
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sample at the source. Lightly hazy dirty red in color with a thin off white head that quickly dissipates. Pineapple and tart berry against a lactose and bready malt sweetness. Not very tart except from the berries.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2021
at 22:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the source. Opaque lemon yellow with a decent head that recedes quickly. Lemony earth tropical and citrus fruitiness with a but if bread and light alcohol to counter.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2021
at 22:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the source. Thick smoothie like red purple in color without much of a head. Huge fruit aroma and flavor with hints of chocolate and light earth. Its hard to call this beer at this point it more like a smoothie but its tasty.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2021
at 21:57