Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Like iced coffee! Very dark, tinted with red. Thin dense head. Awesome coffee aroma, coffee and chocolate in the flavor, dry finish. I had previously called this one of their best and worthy of its awards, but now I can’t understand why. My original comments above are accurate, this is definitely like iced coffee. But the palate is *very* thin here. Not much actual real beer or porter flavor. In a blind tasting between this and an actual glass of iced coffee, I may not be able to pick this out.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Faded amber color. Mild campfire smoke in the nose. Dry and woody, with more campfire in the mouth. Malt is restrained, no hops to speak of.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Strongly bitter, husky and astringent. Citrus aroma. Reminiscent of many so-called "blond ales" but unbalanced. Light gold color. Probably their worst beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Ruby tinted dark brown. Sweetish caramel aroma and flavor. Hints of chocolate. Dry finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Weak aroma but the resiny hops come through more in the flavor. Body feels watery...nitro? A little hop bite but the finish seems abbreviated, little to no malt character. Light gold color hints at the use of only pale malts.
NotABeerProfessor (3575) reviewed Amber from Blind Tiger Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Faded amber color. Light aroma of grassy hops, maybe some chocolate. Fairly balanced, some hop character comes through towards the end.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Dull gold color. Very light, as expected. Intrusive raspberry character is almost bitter tasting in the finish. Husky. Didn’t want to finish it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Lightly hazy pale yellow color, almost the color of a witbier. Served with a lemon wedge at the brewpub. Light citrusy character, very light body, moderate wheaty character. Clean. Easily the best of their 3 wheats that were on.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Light chocolate aroma, small hint of weak coffee. Flavor is the same, plus a very light roastiness. Light body, a bit thin on mouthfeel and flavor. Presence of hops difficult to detect, despite dry finish. Dark hazy brown color with a tinge of red. Large foamy head, but relatively short retention, weak lacing. I’m updating this one: unimpressed with a previous growler offering (a 2.9 score), this turned out to be one of their better beers, with a nice mild chocolate aroma and flavor profile with some decent character.