Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at the brewpub
Muddy light amber color. Huge hoppy aroma, fruity (bitter oranges) and resiny. Medium body strength, malty, huge hopping, resiny and fruity, with light astringency. Excellent.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Flat Iron Stout from Piece Brewery & Pizzeria 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught at the brewpub
Black color. Nice milky aroma of roasted malt. Dry mouthfeel, with a milky roasted malt flavor, some dark chocolate too. Luckily the roasted malt is not too strong. Good.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Golden Arm from Piece Brewery & Pizzeria 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught at the brewpub
Hazy blond color. Quite light but crispy, with a reasonable hopping.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Dysfunctionale from Piece Brewery & Pizzeria 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Draught at the brewpub
Cloudy light amber color. Nice hoppy aroma, less malty and more fruity than the Camel Toe. Medium body strength, malty, extremely hoppy. Similar to Camel Toe, just less strong and sweet, but as much hopped, fruity, resiny. Excellent.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Bat Out of Helles from Piece Brewery & Pizzeria 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught at the brewpub
Hazy blond color; creamy head. It’s a sweetish Helles, with light malt flavor, light cereals and unfortunately also light chemicals. But not bad overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap at the Brew Pub, Chicago. When asked on the styles, this was described as an IPA. Pour is a nice hazy deep copper with a medium sized head that faded fairly quickly. Aroma is hops, mostly grapefruit and citrus. Taste starts with some citrus, rounds into a nice malt backbone/middle and finishes with a nice hop bitterness. Really nice beer, that went well with the meatball and banana pepper pizza I was working on. I actually do think this is closer to IPA than ASA, though not sure what the ABV is.
theisti (5540) reviewed Golden Arm from Piece Brewery & Pizzeria 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at the Brew Pub, Chicago. Pour is clear golden with a nice fluffy white head. Aroma is is really faint, but I get some fruitiness and a touch of earthiness. Taste is a nice, clean , slightly hopped brew. The finish has a bit of the dry bitterness I associate with Kolsch. Nothing complex with this one, though it was a great pair with my Pizza.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft at Piece. I’m told "Double D" refers to it being a "Double Dunkel Weizen." An Imperial Bock, if you will. Pours an intense dark body in a midget weizen glass. The head disappeared in the time it took me to try my "Dark Bier" taster. Big big big big big weizen smell. Taste is of a Bananas Foster, extra rum, please. Then there’s plenty of wheat beir texture, too. A little spice, a lot of alcohol, esters and a touch of dark malt. A Hacker-Pschorr’s evil twin. Finished with a touch of brandy aftertaste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at Piece. Looks deceptively like the same ol’ Bud when poured in a lager stein. Golden pils color, short frothy head. "Clean" lager beer smell. The taste is pretty yeasty for now, but otherwise clean. Sweet with an equal share of bitterness. All I can really say is that it is "lagery."
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Taster at Piece. Here I had thought this was just a nice dark English ale. Bartender was kind of busy, so I wasn’t bothering him for specifics. But a Schwartz? Nah. My tiny amount looked cloudy brown, with a distinct fruity ale smell. A very nice "Irish Red" ale malt profile, and just a twinge of European finishing hops. I kind of regret not getting a whole glass of this.