Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Mahogony brown beer with a big beige head. Nice caramel, slight roast aroma with lots of hops. Big complex malt flavor with some chocolate, roast, and caramel. Also pine and grapefruit backing. LIngering malt. Nice balance. Very drinkable. Somehow as soon as I heard about this beer I knew Dave would be the first person to rate it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber beer with an off-white head. Grapefruit, pine, resin aroma with some sweet malt backing. Big resiny flavor with grapefruit and pine and just a bit of earthiness to go with the sweet malt backing. Lingering grapefruit and resin. Medium body. Nice bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Great aroma of malt and hop; some cinnamon as well? Some sort of spice. Deep ruby tinted color with a vigorous beige head. Starts with spice. Very frothy. Then the malt comes forth. The hop is there, but this ends dry with roasted malt underflavor. The mouthfeel starts medium, but tends to thin. It seems to be very well balanced. It is really good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled. It pours a deep brown, almost black, with a reddish hue, and it looks clear, with a dense tan head. Coffee, chocolate, roastiness, cigarette-smoke and cola in the aroma. The flavor has cocoa, chocolate, roasted malt, tobacco-smoke and a little dryness. Drying, full-bodied mouthfeel and a very chocolate-like finish. A lovely organic beer. (070119)
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22 oz bottle. Dark red-brown body with a beige head. Aroma is chocolate and coffee. Flavor is slightly roasted chocolate and a bit spicy bitter hop. Bitter in the aftertaste. Really nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Poured black with tall light brown head. It has a chocolate aroma along with slight oxidation and molasses like malt sweetness. The taste starts off with tart roasted malts, tart chocolate malts, tart burnt malts, tart coffee and nothing to really even out the overall tartness. This beer misses the mark for me much like the majority of over priced organic brews I’ve tried.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Organic IPA from Bison Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bomber. Color is copper with some red and some sort of hazy orange. Thin long lasting off white head. The aroma is a bit too light to really get a good sense of it. I think I get some vague hoppiness like pine and also a hint of malt. The flavor is up front pine hop bitterness with slivers of sweeter pine hop flavor. Following that I occasionally get a thin watery flavor. Then the malts enter with light roastiness, biscuit, melanoidin and wet hay. This IPA is maltier than most and one of the better organic brews I’ve tried.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours a hazy dark yellow that throws up a big sticky white head. Funky aroma that is tart and acidic. Dry palate right from the start. The flavor is only mildly tart and not too sweet. A light body makes this quite drinkable. The flavor is not as assertive as the aroma hinted at, but this is a decent attempt however.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bomber from Ledgers; Nose of floral hops and a little spice; slightly hazed gold with a medium yellowish head; flavor has some mild hop bitterness, mixed with citrus and spices.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Thanks to cmaruschak for sharing. Pours reddish-brown with a medium thin off-white head with good retention. Thin patches of lacing throughout. The aroma is spiced gingerbread and earthy malt. Medium-bodied with a spicy character. Gingerbread flavor is not too strong, and there are some hops and caramel flavors as well. The finish is short and spicy with vanilla and malt aftertaste. Slightly above average overall.