Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a fairly dark copper color with a thin white cap of a head. No lace.
The aroma had some sweet peach, dusty bready/crustiness, light wheat and a little bit of grassy hops.
The flavor leaned sweet through the peach but didn’t have any of the hops that I smelled, no worries. Light peachy sweet aftertaste, some of that bready/crustiness. Lightly pushes into the finish.
The feel was just above light bodied with a pretty good sessionability about it. Good carbonation. ABV felt fine.
Overall, did everything Binghamton wanted it to do. I could do this one again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a light copper color with just a cap of little white head. No lace.
The aroma had some grassy hops over top of some caramel/toffee malts. Some clean lager yeasty smoothness.
The flavor brought together the previously mentioned aromas somewhat sweet with a little bit of a dry nutty/toastiness right before the aftertaste. Slight malty/yeasty sort of finish.
The feel was about medium bodied, slightly under with a good sessionability about it. Some carbonation. ABV felt naturally.
Overall, pretty good as an amber lager, that’s what I see it as and nothing more. Sturdy fellow, it is.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a burnt copper almost red color with just a cap of a little white head. Quickly died off, no lace.
The aroma had a good blend of earthy spice to grassiness with some pine and citrusy tones of the hops coating a nice caramel/toffee malt base.
The flavor blended the prior aromatics together pretty nice - sweet to spicy to earthy. Ends up delving into the aftertaste to ride away in the finish.
The feel was about medium bodied, perhaps just a touch under with a fair sessionability about it. Delicate carbonation. ABV felt good.
Overall, pretty nice American red ale. Not sure why they say it leans towards it’s Belgian roots, but oh well, I’d still have again even if they’re trying to bringing in a different crowd. But I will say this, fans of Troeg’s HopBack might like this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was muddy copper color almost brown with a thin cap of a little white head, not too foamy and no lace.
The aroma had some maple sweetness at the forefront intersecting some light caramel/toffee malts. Nuttiness was there. Slight woodiness.
The flavor leaned into the sweetness of the blend of the malts to the maple to the nuts. Aftertaste was maple and nuts. Brisk finish of nuts.
The feel was just a touch under medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Light carbonation. Good ABV.
Overall, nicely done maple syrup based brown ale that I would have again. Sometimes I get scared with these, thinking that they’re going to be cloying, but Binghamton did a good job of actually doing something to keep that down.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a quickly dieing finger’s worth of white foamy head that slid into the beer. Lace was the same sliding sort of thing going on.
The aroma centered around some Belgian sugars, light banana, some Belgian chocolate, light spice (cloves?, maybe somewhat), earthiness, slight herbal tones, light leaves, and had some breadiness at the end.
The flavor was lenient towards the sweet side and then opened up into the blend of the sweet to the spice. Aftertaste roamed between the two gently. Finish had the banana along with the Belgian chocolate.
The feel was just a tad under medium in body with a good sipping sort of quality about it. Spice harshness was tame enough to not distract. ABV felt good.
Overall, they say it’s their take on a Belgian style, but part of me wanted to say, this may be closer to a true Belgian. Not sure, but I did like this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Thanks Jeff.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a handsome semi-dark red color with a slight transparency about it. Light carbonation could be seen rising at a moderate pace to fill a finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated at a good pace.
The aroma had some grassy semi-sweet to bitter hops pulling in subtle tones of honey, and caramel/toffee malt.
The flavor leads with the sweetness of a nice blend between the grassiness, honey and malt level. Nice smooth and blended aftertaste strolling into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a pretty good sessionability about it. Moderate carbonation. ABV felt appropriate as intended by the brewer.
Overall, nicely done amber ale worthy of having again and nice creativity to sweeten up with some honey.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark yellowy orange with a finger head that went away instantly. certainly a lot of Citra aroma no surprise there. Crisp and clean mouthfeel but weak at the finish. thin malt bill with some sugars left over. decent taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
a ton of rosemary. aroma is intense! the taste is intense! yeast is there, a light orange. good mouthfeel but you gotta love herbs.
CLW (17000) reviewed Citra Pale Ale from Binghamton Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft @ BCTC, Ommegang Brewery. August, 8, 2015. Hazy dirty amber color. Aroma shows light citrus, regular pale malt, grain.
Fruity upfront with a grain base. Texture is kind of bready. Citra hops in the finish with a very low bitterness. Nothing wrong with this, easy to drink but… it is exactly what everybody else is brewing right now. Boring but drinkable.
CLW (17000) reviewed Rosemary Saison from Binghamton Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
Draft @ BCTC, Ommegang Brewery. August, 8, 2015. Aroma is weak yeast trying to get through a large rosemary herb. No mistaking this for anything other than rosemary.
From front to back this is a blast of rosemary herb. WOW, the rosemary has a huge lingering astringent effect. The rosemary stated on my tongue for a good 10 minutes after about 3 oz. of this brew. They say there is a saison hiding in the brew… No. This is very hard to drink. Good thing this isn’t bottled because it would be finding the drain.