BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Texas Exile from Brash Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours with an inky black hued body with a massive tan head. Good retention. Aromas are nutty, toasty, earthy, mineral, coffee, fudge, chocolate, oatmeal, brown sugar. Slightly raw starch aroma. Flavors are nutty, earthy, compost, coffee grounds, chocolate, roasty, peanut shells. Nutty alcohol, minerals. Rich earthiness with bitter chocolate. Oatmeal. Creamy, smooth, fuller (~2.55 ish volumes) carbonation for the style, big bodied and warming.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. No freshness date. Pours with a lightly hazed deep orange hued body with a lasting bone white head. Aromas are sweet and boozy. Very strong canned/caramelized pineapple, strong strong strong fusel alcohol. Lemon, citrus, papaya, pine and resin. Sum: sweet, boozy, but with nice hops. Flavors are astringent/tannic grain, soil, earthy, sweet boozy, messy. Very hot, mildly bitter, grainy. Extreme fusel alcohol for a 9% abv beer. Hop character is a background note to the intensely harsh and solvent like alcohol. Estery, rough fermentation. Quite brash to be honest. Mild tropical fruit and resin, sweet. Lively carb, warming, astringent, fuller bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head with medium retention recedes to mottle surface. Espresso and dark chocolate aromas. Thick with dark chocolate and caramel upfront turning to espresso and bitter earth in the lasting finish.
CosmicCharlie (9644) reviewed Item Nine from Brash Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours deep hazed gold into a tulip. Bright white head with good retention recedes soapily. Passion fruit, pineapple and grapefruit aromas. Thick with sweet caramel and wheat upfront turning quickly tropical fruits and resin before the bitter grapefruit pith finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ Chriso. Pours a hazy orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty piney hoppy grapefruit aroma. Fruity malty hoppy piney flavor. has a fruity malty hoppy piney hoppy bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at Chriso tasting (from Binny’s South Loop, Chicago) 18/11/12. Hazed mid amber with a thin off white head that soon clears to the edge of the glass. Nose is a big dose of caramel malt, hops, orange, a little chlorine, pine. Tastes of caramel malts, light tropical fruit tones, hops. Full bodied with soft carbonation leading to a bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Chriso tasting, London. Pours fuzzy gold with a creamy, white cap. Big malt nose, some pine, hints of toasty caramel. Quite sweet though not cloying, lightly dry, with toasty bread, pine, ripe orange. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warming finish with resinous pine and plenty of ripe citrus fruits. Very good DIPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is dense grapefruity and pine hops. Dense hoppy, grapefruity, mango and peaches. Thick mouthfeel. Solid bitter, light alcohol warmth and dry and lingering fruity finish.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
This is a good one. Pours a golden yellow with big head. Strong hop/malt aroma. Flavor has loads of citrus and hops. Rather sweetish finish to it. It is pretty good--alcohol content is high, but it doesn’t taste boozy,
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours a lightly hazy deep orange amber color with a huge bubbly white head that persists forever. I can smell citrus and ethanol as soon as I pop the cap on this one. Curiously the cap is from clown shoes. Sticking my nose over the glass reveals a solid shot of caramel and bready malt sweetness. Citrus earth pine and resin tell me this is a serious IPA and the ethanol reminds me its a huge IPA. The flavor threw me a bit, its not what I expected based on the nose. A hint of bread and some big caramel sweetness at first then a solid shot of bitter resin and pine. We work our way into a light heat then it gets really dry and leaves a long lingering and I mean lingering hop bitterness on the palette. Medium to light body with a moderate level of carbonation and bitter resinous mouthfeel. This is an interesting beer that’s for sure, and its a solid IPA. I’m not sure I reach for this again, but I’m glad I got to try it.