cheap (9533) reviewed Phoenix Pale Ale from Sly Fox Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Oops, popped this open by mistake. I’m surprised its in a 12 oz can and I am also surprised of its quality. Around here we quite often assume a beer in a can is not that great. This is a cool looking can, red with a pheonix on it. Again, I am surprised it is from my home state and not arizona considering the name. Aroma is strong hoppy ale, and this brew is medium bitter from the start. Darker and a little more cloudy than a typical pale yellow american beer. Very hoppy aroma continues. Finish is lingering bitter that hangs for awhile. For those of you who like IPA and pale ale, better give this one a try, it is very good quality in those styles. The micro brew quality in this can excels.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at barcade - starts out promising, with a very dark purple, heady pour, and a full aroma of peaty, scotch ale goodness - however, the body is far too thin - the caramel, vanilla, smoked malt and dark fruits are all there, but they just don’t interact in the right ways, as if the various elements af the beer are at war with one another, rather than coming together in the harmonious way that they should - all fight for control, but none win out, leaving a flabby beer that doesn’t satisfy on the palate.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Ichor from Sly Fox Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
75cl bottle at White Horse, Parons’ Green from the Burgundian Babblebelt. Dark brown colour with ruby edges. Aroma of whisky malt. Great spicey malt/hop/whisky flavours in mouth. Bit thin in mouth on palate. Alcohol is harsh on finish. Some nice toffee/coffee flavours.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Ichor from Sly Fox Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Red-lighting beer in an amber-ruby total; virtually no head. Extremely inviting vinous-brandy nose, fruits preserved on alcohol, and (non-bitter) chocolate, almonds. Vinous, brandy, liqueur, plums on brandy, the English Strawberry jam that has more brandy than jam... impressive. Higher alcohols à souhait . Fully oily, viscous, alcoholwarming. Liqueur-like texture. Superb beer, a real ichor to the beergods, even when tried in a slightly too warm condition. Txs. Bill & Warren!
maniac (11822) reviewed Incubus from Sly Fox Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Clear golden body with a small white head. Sweet caramel aroma with a slight candy sugar hint. Sweet candi sugar flavor with some caramel in the end.
maniac (11822) reviewed Ichor from Sly Fox Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Dark black body with a nearly non-existant frothy brown head. Sweet fruit and raison aroma. Sweet molassas flavor with some caramel and raisons.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed O’Reilly’s Stout from Sly Fox Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Nitro pint at Hop Devil Grill on 1/12/07
Medium-low clarity in this deeply brown-black guinness-like body. Light tan head is creamy, wet and well-retained, but leaves only moderate lacing.
Coffee and black malt tar/ashiness give an initial jolt in the nose, but soft vanilla cream and minerals take over. Softer roast makes a crescendo, climaxing with a bit of leafy, marginal hops and a pinch of bakers chocolate. Buttercream and toffee sit sweetly on the finish as the roast recedes. No alcohol noted, medium amount of aroma for a nitro beer.
Wet and chocolatey at first, the black malt halts the sweetness, giving a dry, ashen flavor and combining with the base malts to produce more light cofee sweetness. Buttercream and definite sourness emerges midway through and the sticks. Not overly watery, and quite sweet for a dry stout, with a bit of stickiness. Unfortunately, the sourness is a bit much, as is the heavy butteriness. Nice that it’s got a lot of flavor for a nitro, low gravity stout, but the butteriness has got to go.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Challenger IPA from Sly Fox Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught pint at Hop Devil Grill on 1/12/06
Canteloupe-brass body has a slight tint of auburn, while the off-white head is medium in height, mostly well-retained and provides light lacing. Clarity is high, with plentiful carbonation.
Highly spicy hop aroma is dotted with crystal malt hardness and bits of sweet graham cracker and caramel. The malts are well attenuated though, so they don’t provide too much a challenge to overcome by the hops (though some hop flavors are drowned out). But the hops seem pretty bare and overly dry. Not that I expected much else from challengers, I guess I just dont find it to make a good single-hop beer. Just too much dusty dryness and very subtle, dry, fresh cut grassiness that is too easily undercut by the malt. Lemon, pepper, grass, and a plethora of dry herbs, with clean yeast, no brewing flaws or alcohol even for its strength. Good strength on the aroma, being a more subtle hop, served on draught in a crowded bar, I’m impressed.
Dry, lightly crystally malts provide bits of melon-like flavors, with a pinch of caramel and soft red fruits. Hops start out as a lightly dull basil/thyme/oregano sort of thing, slowly adding freshly cut grass and finally growing extremely dry and spicy (white and black pepper). Almost like a spicy herb was used (lemongrass). A distinct, but reserved orange tanginess sits in the background. It’s different than any other IPA I can remember, that’s for sure, but the muted, or maybe more accurately, reserved malt flavors, in concert with the very dry, bare peppery-spiciness just get rather boring and predictable by the end of the glass. Medium amounts of somewhat tight carbonation. Some orange essence, lemon oil and a chewy, almost nutty plant-like flavor emerge after it warms up. Frothy, lively texture with no brewing flaws. Not too much resemblance to an American IPA.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sampled from a 750 ml brown bottle this beer poured a vibrant raspberry color with a huge pink head. The aroma was sweet and tangy berry with a light but noticeable "beer" malt undertone. The flavor was very tart and tangy with a crisp raspberry element and a light malty undertone. There is a tart berry finish. The alcohol is completely hidden. Fabulous.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
100th rater bought this to make Beer Can Chicken with a sligh twist. I am embracing the can revolution but it seems so weird when I poured this pedestrian ican nto into my majestic, large, dominating, beautiful Tripel Karmeliet tulip glass. Pours out much quicker than a bottle, forgot about that. Small head that quickly fades, medium lacing left. Color is cloudy yellow, cant see through the beer but has a nice translucence (well lit, like if the snorks leaved in a #1 only toilet). Aroma is grassy german pils, right on the dot for pale lager type of pils, which I am not a big fan of. Of course a large hop aspect as well. Taste has a bit of hop sweetness, followed by a malty crispy, bready kind of thang, chicken wang. Not bad in the taste department, leaves a grassy, hoppy, sweet atertaste. Pleasantly live carbonation. Drinking one now, one for the chicken and 4 for the friends (or emergencies I guess).