Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Pours brown from bottle. Some roasty malts and crackers and such. lightly acidic and minor hops bite. Pretty decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draught from the jeffrey. Fruity citrusy hop aroma off of clear amber orange pour. Decent malts, honestly pretty damned good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft from Brouwerij Lane. Poured dark, roasted malts, didn’t really get too much rosemary, but anyway I thought it was pretty decent stout that hit all the right ntoes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draught from brou lane. Maroon pour. White head. Dark fruit pllums raspberry dry finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught from R&H. POured an amber. SOme hops and regular taste. Kind of unremarkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught. It was like a saison, but with way too many hops poured into it. I thought it was decent but not for the style.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Black pour, big mocha brown head. Aroma is super malty, and very roasty with thick chocolate. Burnt coffee, hints of smoke and bacon. Oily mouth feel, lively carb for an impy. Medium bitterness, soy flavours in the end with some intense roast. Alcohol is well hidden, so this one is dangerous.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Notes from October 2009 First batch of this good time lager. Smokey lip as I lift the cap. Sly Fox pint glass at the ready. A warm glass gets me 3+ inches of lumpy, bright white head, which eventually levels off to a constant puddle of film. Color is a clear, slightly pale gold. Constant activity. Spicy/steel-ish lemon yeast, mentholated hops & well water on the nose. Slight whiff of aerosol. Some toasted bread & very minute butter. Meh. Bright, zesty hops upfront accentuated by tight carbonation. Cracker-ish malt, salt, & yeast. Finish dries out carrying toasty grain & pinch of minty/grassy hops. Alcohol is quite negligible, but there is significant potential for cottonmouth with a big enough serving of this. Taste is subjective. A good pale lager, but as slight & limited the flavor of this style is, a single bomber really isn't worth the price of 6-7 tallboys of Baltika(or whatever your preference is). Even a better choice, a competitively priced growler fill at 64 ounces a clip. Bad style choice for the pricey 22 format.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Notes from January 2010 First Batch picked up at PH Provisions in Boston I believe. Bottled in November 2008. Paid just under $6 back then. Poured into a wobbly Duvel Tulip(oh noes!) that I also picked up in Boston for $2 at another establishment. *sigh* I had this a couple times on tap before & wasn't blown away by it. Add in the homer atmosphere I was drinking it in, & great people behind it, I was torn. I brought a few back with me anyway, figuring the time in the bottle & change of scenery would do it some good. It wasn't long though, before Pretty Things invaded my neighborhood & the novelty of having out of state beer to share with friends was gone. Big yeasty whiff right off the bottle before I even start pouring. Touch of bubblegum, touch of vinegar. Golden, apple juice color. The yeast, just barely disturbed. A bit darker then when it was when fresh. A netting of bubbles surround a whitewash-colored head. Sticky, gritty, lace. Smell is wintergreen-like hops, macerated lemon & orange zests, a touch of honey, & lots of nostril clearing, aerosol-like alcohol. Taste was so much better, & so different from what I had on tap. A light oat-y cereal sweetness upfront, followed up with a lightly herbal, leafy green hoppy middle. It ends on dry crackery malt with a mild trail of steel-y hops. Not very phenolic. I can't complain much though. Dry is good. Coating, but not greasy. Warming in a soothing, non-irritating way. Sane amount of carbonation. A solid saison. :)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Notes from January 2011 4.07/5 rDev +8.8% look: 3.5 - smell: 4 - taste: 4 - feel: 4 - overall: 4.5 $6 half growler from Whole Foods. A hazy pale, yellow & tarnished. Whitewash head. A bit mossy & shrubby & quite potent. Potent bushels of bushes. Sweet smelling like pears & toasted cereal. Lightly sweet, crusty bread & a bitterness that you kind of get when chewing on an inedible part of a vegetable. Bit of sharpness before that bitterness. Finish is bitter & briny like a mouth rinsed in seawater. Quite lingering. Body is light & easy, with a fair amount of carbonation. Alcohol is moderate, maybe even a bit strong for whatever Pretty Things is attempting here. Does anyone else think Beck's when drinking this? Or maybe when it seemed tolerable 10+ years ago? Just a little sweeter.