Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at OCBC, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma is mostly a function of the carrots and carrot cake spices, along with subdued vanilla and toffee. Flavour is absurdly spicy, with lots of carrot cake and a touch of vanillin. Too much carrot cake spice. Hard to appreciate.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Oatmeal Stout from Oyster City Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at OCBC, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma reveals oats, cocoa and some sugars. Flavour is fairly dry, with oats, light roast, and some cocoa. A bit briny and gritty on the palate but otherwise okay.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Amber color, sweet malty and cool pine aroma. Malty backbone with a heavy resin hop bitterness. Lasting hop aftertaste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pinkish, orange color. Taste is mildly sour acidity with mild tropical fruit sweet and tart.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Opaque orangish yellow with a clove aroma, mild banana. Taste is sweet, creamy Hefeweizen with a mild peach flavor. Funky and spicy finish. Mild peach aftertaste.
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Mako My Day from Oyster City Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pine and grapefruit. Golden pour with decent head. Light bitter end. Tap at Mobile location. 837315
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Hooter Brown from Oyster City Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Roast and a little honey. Black pour with decent head. Some caramel in the finish, some bitterness. Medium body. Tap at Oyster City Mobile. 838315
solidfunk (21946) reviewed Adamo from Oyster City Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A little saaz. Golden pour with decent head. Light bitter finish, some lemon. Tap at Oyster City Mobile. 636312
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
This beer is instructive in the difference between rating to style and hedonic rating. I've written similar points in previous ratings, that I don't rate to style, and don't even like to do so, and am purely a hedonist when it comes to beer. But in the past there have been times where I would be really in the mood for a specific type of beer and then been disappointed that a purchased example didn't hit it. That surely affects the hedonic pleasure one would have. In this case that is partly true, but it doesn't miss the mark so much that you'd say its not a brown ale. But as I see that ratebeer calls this an imperial brown, then I notice the ABV and now the beer makes sense. The semi-sweet profile, the booziness, the anise and dark fruit, yes I might expect these in something like an old ale or barleywine (which really is imperial brown even a thing, wouldn't such a beer have been called an old ale in the 1990s and before?). I would have had a different perspective on this beer if I'd thought of it as such. Well its fine as is, certainly less drinkable than a sessionable brown.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Apalach IPA from Oyster City Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft: Poured an orange amber with a off white head. Aroma hoppy, citrus, piney, malty. Taste is bitter hops forward, citrus, piney, resinous, malt balanced backbone.