Sapwood Cellars Brewery
Microbrewery
in
Columbia,
Maryland,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Sapwood Cellars
Established in 2018
Contact
Description
Welcome To Sapwood Cellars
We are dually focused on barrel-aged mixed-fermented beers and fresh hoppy ales. Founded on our shared passions for brewing science, delicious flavors, and the craft of beer production, we brew beers that are balanced, drinkable, and highly aromatic without tongue-scraping bitterness or piercing sourness. Beer should be a pleasure to savor, not a challenge to conquer!
We are dually focused on barrel-aged mixed-fermented beers and fresh hoppy ales. Founded on our shared passions for brewing science, delicious flavors, and the craft of beer production, we brew beers that are balanced, drinkable, and highly aromatic without tongue-scraping bitterness or piercing sourness. Beer should be a pleasure to savor, not a challenge to conquer!
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap. Pours hazy golden orange, large white head, dissipates slowly, creamy and good lacing. Aroma is fruity, earthy, tropical hint of papaya, dankness, mounds bar. Flavor is light plus sweet, light plus bitter. Not really chocolatey, more earthy. Medium plus body, soft mouthfeel. Quite interesting. I was honestly not expecting to like this; I thought it would be a total gimmick and unbearably sweet, but it was not. The cacao was an accent, adding earthiness more so than Hershey's, and the cacao notes played well against the natural coconut flavors in the hops. This was a minefield of a beer recipe, but navigated to perfection. Kudos!
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Apr 2019
at 06:04
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Tap. Pours lightly hazy yellow gold, large white head, creamy good lacing. Aroma is field grass, hints of Brett, vinous, lemon, more grass. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter, grassy, a bit funky. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. 5,7,7,5,,,,,15
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Apr 2019
at 05:58
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap. Pours opaque black, small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is roasty, rich notes of molasses and cocoa. Flavor is light plus sweet, light plus bitter rich and roasty. Medium plus body. Quite solid for a straight adjunct free stout. 3.9
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Apr 2019
at 05:56
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap. Pours hazy golden, medium creamy white head, good lacing. Aroma is vanilla and coconut indeed, plus orange, mango, papaya. Flavor is the same, light plus sweet and light bitter. Medium body, creamy. The description says no adjuncts, but it is pretty amazing if all of that vanilla and coconut comes from just Sabro. Interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Apr 2019
at 19:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap. Pours hazy apricot, medium off-white head, dissipates leaving decent residual and lacing. Aroma is full of apricots, fresh, perhaps slightly underripe apricots, hints of sulphur. Flavor is light tart, minimal Brettiness. lots of fresh apricot and perhaps a hint of the Citra hopping. Not overly complex, but enjoyable enough.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Apr 2019
at 19:21
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Tap. Pours hazy golden yellow, medium white head, decent lacing. Aroma is tropical an dank indeed, papaya, pot, hints of chive. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter. Medium body, soft silky in the mouth. Quite solid. This would have blown away the world three or four years ago.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Apr 2019
at 18:45