Bootleggers Brewery (CA)
Microbrewery
in Fullerton,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2008
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy blond with thin head. Quite lightly flavoured with sweet grains. The yeast adds a light spiciness and a sweetness too.
mike_77 (15884) reviewed Mountain Meadow from Bootleggers Brewery (CA) 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy blond with quick fading head. Aroma has a lot herbs but the honey comes through too. The honey is more prominent in the flavour. Thin body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at California Adventure
Pours clear golden/orange with a small off white head. Aroma of a orange creamsicle. Flavor of blood oranges, fruity and tea
Good
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Best Damn Beer Shop SD. Hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma of hops, tangerine, some grapefruit and light malt. The same in the taste. The finish was quite bitter. A decent one.
superspak (10163) reviewed Knuckle Sandwich from Bootleggers Brewery (CA) 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Got as a gift from RaulMondesi. 22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 10/19/2017. Pours crystal clear deep orange/amber/light copper color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky cream colored head with fantastic retention that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big tangerine, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper/pine, caramel, toasted bread, biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Very slight booze in the aromas as it warmed. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and dark/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of huge tangerine, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper/pine, caramel, toasted bread, biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, berry, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper/pine, caramel, toasted bread, biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Incredible complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and dark/bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready, fairly sticky, and slightly resinous balanced mouthfeel that is fantastic. Alcohol is very well hidden, a mildly increasing warmth of 10% lingering after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic DIPA! All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the big ABV; with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Extremely juicy hop complexity; sizable malt backbone, but never overly sweet/heavy feeling for the ABV with nice adequate lingering hop dryness. A highly enjoyable offering. Loved the hop profile, very classic tasting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
From a can with the ABV listed as 5.8%. It pours a murky orange with a large white head. Aroma is all fruity hops. Peach and maybe even some strawberry. Flavor is again a nice fruity hop but the mouthfeel is a bit thick. This is kind of like drinking a fruity milkshake. It looks like this beer was being made way before NE style IPA's became popular so perfect timing for this brewer to can this beer. Solid beer but a bit too thick.
Bytemesis (16171) reviewed Far Out IPA from Bootleggers Brewery (CA) 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Tap. Press clear golden, Medium creamy off white head, great lacing. Aroma is Grapefruit, pine, hint of aspirin. Flavor is light pls sweet, light bitter. Melon body, creamy mouthfeel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a cloudy red with a ton of floaties and a small white head. Aroma a nice fruity apricot with a large sugary sweetness. Flavor is strawberry with the accompanying sugar sweetness. Decent berry flavor with almost no bitterness. While far from a hazy IPA this did have a nice berry hops flavor but it is a bit sweet and cloying.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft at the source. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, ash, coffee, notes. Taste is roasted malt, licorice, coffee, alcohol, with a mild peppery finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Draft at the source. Pours a dark purple with a pale pink head. Aroma of tart dark berries. Taste is blackberry, boysenberry, funk. This is fruit juice, not beer.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.75 |
| Beers | 99 |
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