Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Perfectly clear coloured light orange and golden coloured body with a thinnish, pure white head that shows some light carbonation. Aroma of very soured and tart fruits like raspberries, lemons and a dash of hibiscus as well, but there aren't many malts or support elements, but the fruit and especially the sour notes seem very nice. Light-bodied; Soured lemon and citrus fruits are noticeable at first with a lot of tart raspberry elements as well, along with some very subtle malts and a dash of very subdued floral notes, but the beer goes down very easily. Aftertaste is smooth and very focused on the soured, tart fruits, lemons and easy-drinking malts that seem like wheat. Overall, a very nice and incredibly flavourful beer that has a great level of soured and tart notes that show prickly pear, even though I didn't know what it was, but the balance is very nice, and shows as a very flavourful berliner weisse. Great to sample and well worth trying to find - I'm going to try and find the other variants, as well. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 21-November-2018 for US$2,99 sampled in my hotel room here in Patuxent River, Maryland on 18-September-2019.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Jrallen. Brown color. Cane sugar, pumpkin and pineapple in the aroma. Full bodied. Well hopped with oily citric piney hops. Sweet, almost sugary, with pumpkin and tropical fruit. Oily hopbitter aftertaste. Good!
Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Askew from Two Brothers Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Corked bottle. Amber color. Oak, grapefruit and toffee in the complex aroma. Moderately sor, very well rounded, with apple, melon, grapefruit, leather, oak. A fine mix of drinkability, complexity and roundness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at HOPnick 2019 - SB web, 2019-08-01 Göteborg AR: caramel, hops, toast AP: amber hazy, wee ofwhite head F: caramel, hops, toast
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Apfeliger, leicht oxidierter Beginn. Milde muffige Herbe, süßlich, wässrig. Meh. 8/6/5/5/8/5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 7/2013. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, floral, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, and dark/black/roast/bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, and dark bread/crust; with lighter notes of dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, floral, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery hops; and roast/char bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, dark bread/crust, dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, floral, grass, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity. robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, and dark/black/roast/bready malt flavors; with a great hop/char bitter/sweet balance; and no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready/sticky, and fairly chalky/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Mild increasing warmth of 9.9% after the finish. Overall this is a delicious Black DIPA. All around nice complexity. robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops, and dark/black/roast/bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to sip on for the ABV, with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish; not aggressively bitter/charred. Feels like Columbus, Centennial, Amarillo hops. Very juicy and fairly dank/earthy hops; with a great balanced rich dark/black/roast malt backbone. Light residual sweetness with lingering resin dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive style example considering the age. Held up exceptionally well for 6 years.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sample at the Tap House. Light hazy brown color. Rich malty smell with hint of bourbon. MUCH more bourbon from the first sip. Also a slight wine nose, maybe from barrel oak tannins. Not a lot of hop bitterness, and I don’t know how old this one would be. Kind of a maltier and less hoppy version of a Bigfoot. A bit of a thicker mouthfeel, too.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sample glass at the tap house. Reddish – brown, almost porter in color. Mild cherry nose is almost a relief from any number of overly tart smelling sours. The taste is agreeable, with natural cherry tartness instead of additional acidulated sourness. This is the one to go with from my samples of taproom only tasters.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy gold color. Smell has some light peach not, just a little tartness. First impression is a surprisingly thick mouthfeel, like a bit of peach heavy syrup. Peach and sour work pretty well together in this case. Tap Room sample.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
IPA with citrus & vanilla. Sample at the Tap House. Slightly amber IPA color. Rather fruity nose. Um, the taste only goes to suggest that perhaps vanilla is not a great IPA addition. Gets in the way of the hop flavor, although the bitterness is at least not meant to be huge.