Checkerspot Brewing Company
Brewpub
in Baltimore,
Maryland,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Checkerspot Brewing Company
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed 395 RYE from Checkerspot Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tan brown with a medium sized foamy white head that left good lacing. Grainy, malty and sweetish with a light rye note. Medium finish. Medium bodied and smooth.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Amber with a medium sized foamy white head that left decent lacing. Sour and dry with an orange note. Long finish. Medium body.
maniac (11822) ticked Sip Happens from Checkerspot Brewing Company 3 years ago
Clear golden body medium fizzy white head. Floral tea citrus aroma. Tart lemon tea flavor. Light body moderate carbonation 7/3/7/4/14 3.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can at The Helmand: pourz gold with white head. Aroma is grassy and grainy. Taste is moderately bitter, fairly dry. Goes down well for what is apparently gluten reduced.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Sip Happens from Checkerspot Brewing Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pretty hazy golden coloured body with a thinnish, very fast-dying pure white head, only a single centimetre at start and nothing after a few seconds. Aroma of very beautiful brewed earl grey tea notes with some bergamot and light lavender of course, but the lemons and sour notes hit hard in the nose right afterwards, with some funky, cat pee and saison smells right afterwards, perhaps from the yeast, with some bread noticeable as well. Light to Medium-bodied; Nice soured lemon and white grape flavours at first with a light acidity and some candy here as well, but the earl grey notes get stronger as this goes on, but more of a tea leaf and unsteeped flavour coming from this rather than tea. Aftertaste shows a great balance, somehow and someway of the tart and soured lemon notes with a good complexity coming from the earl grey tea leaves with the bergamot and lavender the strongest, but the malt behind is nice and supportive without being strong at all. Overall, a very nice beer that has a ton of complexity, is a bit tart throughout, but shows excellent balance and is drinkable with a nice range of flavours, at least for this earl grey lover. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from King's Contrivance Liqour Store (such a stupid name) in Columbia, Maryland on 25-October-2022 for US$4,49 sampled at my house here in Washington on Beer (and Day #12) of my 2022 (self-created) advent calendar, halfway between the start of the month and Christmas itself!
Clear pinkish amber body medium foamy off white head. Tart floral fruity aroma. Tart berry citrus fruity flavor. Medium light body moderately high carbonation. 7/3/8/3/15 3.6
maniac (11822) ticked Fancy Pants from Checkerspot Brewing Company 3 years ago
Hazy gold body small fizzy white head. Floral resiny aroma floral earthy fruity flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/2/8/4/15 3.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pine and wet grass. Murky yellow pour with decent head. Hop tang finish. A little orange peel. Can.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
22oz bottle pours a translucent black, big cap of brown head. Nose has malt and caramel, some harsh whiskey, sweet, some brownie dough. Flavor has some smoke, which helps balance the chocolate and caramel sweetness, the barrel is there, but the malt backbone and the smoke really balance everything. Finishes off dry, full bodied.
maniac (11822) ticked Honey Kolsch from Checkerspot Brewing Company 4 years ago
Clear gold body small foamy white head. Dry grassy malt flavor. Honey bready grassy flavor. Medium light body moderate carbonation. 6/3/7/3/13 3.2