deyholla (22727) reviewed 98 Problems IPA from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can. Pours a clear amber with a slight reddish hue and a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of musty pine with a bit of grass and a grain backbone. Flavor has earthy pine with a bit of bread, some earthy grain and a hint of graph.
superspak (10160) reviewed Hotbox Brown Ale from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce can into pint glass, no can dating. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy dark reddish brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big nutty dark roasted coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toast, brown bread, light chocolate/cocoa, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aroma with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, coffee, and light earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of big nutty dark roasted coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, toast, brown bread, light chocolate/cocoa, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, brown bread, light cocoa, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, coffee, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, fairly creamy/bready, and slightly chalky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice coffee brown ale! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, coffee, and light earthy hop flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
superspak (10160) reviewed Black Goat from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass; no bottle dating, but was just released this month. Listed at 8.5% on the bottle. Pours fairly pitch black color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense tan head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big chocolate, cocoa, coffee, toasted dark bread, molasses, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, oak, light dark fruit/herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of roast/bready malt and moderate bourbon barrel notes; with great strength. Taste of big chocolate, cocoa, coffee, toasted dark bread, molasses, toffee, vanilla, bourbon, oak, light dark fruit/herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of chocolate, cocoa, coffee, dark bread, molasses, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, oak, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of roast/bready malt and moderate bourbon barrel flavors; with a great roasted bitterness/sweetness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Very clean on lager flavors with minimal yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky, and slightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a slight warmth lingering after the finish. Overall this is an excellent imperial Schwarzbier style. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of roast/bready malt and moderate bourbon barrel flavors; and very smooth and easy to sip on for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Erzengel (18514) reviewed No Rules from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
Many thanks to ThirstyBird for sharing! Extremely deep and thick. Dark milk chocolate. Coconut, roasted malt. Thick and viscous. Completely complex, sweet but not too. Great deep chocolate aftertaste. Melting chocolate with a round smooth body. Fascinating stuff!!
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed No Rules from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bomber, assumedly recent, shared by WillRunforbeer on 11/28/15.
Dark mahogany/ebony pour has a tan head that is small and shows moderate to low retention. Did not check clarity.
Hugely rich, almost candy-sweet nose does not burn with alcohol, but seems quite estery. Coconut adds to the overall rich/sweet character and the turbinado fermentation adds more esters and candy character. Bourbon is notable, but not overdone, with prominent spice and vanilla emerging. Dosent smell as much like an Imperial Stout/Porter so much as it does a big huge barleywine. Kind of like an amped up JW Lees, or something like that (with bourbon and coconut).
Rich, strong, sweet, candyish and estery/fruity in the mouth, it has a massively soft, sugary texture, though the alcohol prevents it from being syrupy or cloying. Difficult to rate, as it’s not "overdone" in the usual sense of an Imperial. The barrel aging is done pretty well, it’s not a booze bomb, especially given the massive abv and it’s not underfermented. But I just don’t think there’s quite enough dry/acidc balance to it (some tannin and heavy toasted oak lingers, but not exactly pleasantly). If you’re putting a beer in a bourbon barrel, why are you also adding coconut? Furthermore, why the hell do you need to turbinado this thing up to 15% abv??? Jesus christ, isn’t 12% way more than enough??
CLW (16859) reviewed No Rules from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
650 ml bottle shared by Willrunforbeer, much thanks. Black color, almost no head. Aroma is a hefty amount of bourbon with wood and lasting coconut, cinnamon.
The flavor shows a great myriad of flavors. Vanilla, cinnamon, oak and a nice melded bourbon. Damn the mouthfeel is awesome!! Oily with a mild bourbon burn. The ABV is almost totally hidden and for the 15 % is really amazing. Just a really off the wall full of flavor kind of Porter, unreal.
AdamChandler (5745) reviewed No Rules from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bomber. Thanks WillRun for bringing this bomb. Stoked to try it.
A - The appearance is like an oily and slick black...not a thick mess but it’s really good looking. A nice dark tan head.
S - This is a coconut bomb. I absolutely think it smells stupid good. table sugar, cinnamon, brown sugar, coconut and vanilla.
T - Thick, like a chocolate cake dessert with toasted coconut and a lot of bakers chocolate with a little bit of brown sugar at the finish. Loaded with flavor and vanilla...but for 15% beer, the booze isn’t even present. It’s just very refined.
M - oily and thin then boom, this dense finish. like it’s sneaking up on you like a Ninja.
O - Yeah man, I’d love more of this...maybe not a keg but a case of this would be great.
Chalumeaux (4962) reviewed No Rules from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Poured from bottle thanks Willrunforbeer dark chocolate pour with a tan lacey head. Aromas of vanilla coffee coconut and bourbon. Taste is awesome nice rich creamy mouth feel brown sugar and hint of cinnamon.
deyholla (22727) reviewed Gold Ale from Perrin Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
On tap at Hopcat A2. Pours a clear yellowish gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma is straw forward with earthy grains and a bit of biscuit supporting. Flavor is similar with a combination straw and earthy grain that has a touch of sweetness.