8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft. Rich reddish amber beer with a ncie off-white head. Great peach/tangerine aroma that’s slightly sweet. Peach, tangerine, grapefruit flavor with lighte resins and sweet malt backing. Lots of lingering hops. Best of the Summit IPAs I’ve had so far.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jul 2006
at 13:41
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Nice sour aroma. Cloudy golden colour, small white head. The flavour is nice and smooth, not very sour. Good, pleasant earthiness. Creamy and good beer.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2006
at 11:27
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Batch 001 - PH1 (thanks, Vinnie!). Colour of old gold, tilting towards orange, cloudy; small, vanishing off-white head, fed by lively carbonation. Very lemony nose, lactic acid, some Brett, but restrained, other bugs as well. Extremely complex nose, displaying signs of the best way of careful, monitored aging, ideal for this type of beer. Very sourish oud bruin taste, but nudged towards the lemon/lactic, even citric, rather than towards acetic acids. Some exotic fruit like (not quite ripe) yellow kiwifruit ("Zespri") or unripe peach, as well as roses. Faraway hints at leather. As TAR remarked, there’s iron(oxyde) there too. Sharpish acidburn, wonderfully refreshing, vying with Berliner Weisse. In fact, IMO this has at least as much from Berliner Weisse as from Oud Bruin. But it is way more complex than any BW, goes much deeper. If it weren’t for the Supplication, this would be my favourite RR.
Tried
on 30 Jun 2006
at 14:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Dark burgundy pour, with substantial and lasting off-white head - aroma of clove, nutmeg, overripe fruits - carbonation is medium-soft in the mouth - a little tart and almost funky to start, then some alcohol warmth to accompany some caramel, plum, fig and spices - mildly sweet, almost bready finish - a very nice belgian.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2006
at 20:17
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Unbelievable deposition of yeast on the bottom, near gushing and very lively carbonation to absurdly high, near white head; collapsing over straw-orange beer. Rozes, rosehips, wheat, a little bit of horseblanket, lemon or lemonblossom, citruszeste, old oak. Very refreshing taste with again lemon, lemonzeste, flowery, nectarines (actually, it reminds me and the wife of Pattyntje Dubbel when fresh, then again, who but us knows...) Medium bodied - gives actually a lighter impression than it is. I get again a slickness, reminding me of a wheatbeer. Again a very complex beer from Vinnie. To me, it’s like a lambic brewed with pure cultivars, instead of sp. fermentation. Very refreshing summer ale, great.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2006
at 11:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Thanks to Eyedrinkale for bringing this to the Heavyweight Open House - considering my other experiences with this brewery, this was not the brett bomb I was expecting it to be - the brett just left a slightly tangy, band-aid-like quality to the beer - perhaps with more aging the brett will kick in more - other than that, this was quite a light and refreshing belgian ale - mostly light citrus, with generally high acidity, tempered by a mellow, cake-like malt profile - very soft (but adundant) carbonation - pretty good.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2006
at 17:06
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A hazy orange beer with a lazing white head. The aroma is sweet yeasty combined with notes of wheat and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with an acidity from the wheat, combined with notes of yeast and alcohol. It has a rather nice balance.
Tried
on 05 Jun 2006
at 10:40
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Growler shared courtesy of Enniskillen who brought it back from the Brewpub yesterday. Transparent amber with a small off-white head. Malty aroma with a small note of currants. Flavor is nice and hoppy.
Tried
from Growler
on 03 Jun 2006
at 17:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at RR in Santa Rosa. Gold with a small white head. Hoppy-fruity aroma with citrus notes. Taste is nice and hoppy with a nice bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 May 2006
at 08:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap At RR in Santa Rosa. Amber-gold with a small gold tinged head. Hoppy malt aroma with citrus notes. Flavor shows malt with lots of citrus and hops with a nice bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 May 2006
at 08:52