Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project
Client Brewer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Established in 2008
Closed in 2015
Description
Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project began on a shoestring budget in 2008. We exist to allow 20 year professional brewer Dann Paquette to make an honest living while giving his imagination free reign. We brew our beers in other people's breweries because we can't afford our own. We enjoy the up-at-dawn lifestyle and the freedom to brew beers of our own imagining. We brew all our beers ourselves: Dann brews and formulates, Martha mills in. We dream up our beers together, inspired by Europe, by history, and by BEER and all it can be. We are based in Somerville, but brew mostly in Westport, MA, hence the early mornings. Cheers!
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma and flavour is apple, malt, hop, yeast, fruit, pine, tropical fruit. OK beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2014
at 00:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep gold into a goblet. White head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Dark tropical fruits and resin aromas. Sweet, thick and hot upfront with with caramel, mango and cedar, turning to hot grapefruit in the lasting finish. All over the place, but I like it.
Tried
on 18 Jul 2014
at 16:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Good rating on this one prompted me to grab it, hope it’s good. Pours a clear yellow-gold with a decent white head. Nose of grainy malts, yeast, bubble-gum, citrus. Mild creamy malts, citric acid, some bubble-gum and a touch of cilantro-type herbal-ness. Not bad.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2014
at 18:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
on the money saison, pours hazy golden with oil skin head. Light hazy golden, some fizziness n the carbonation livens the palate. Malt, grain and yeast vie for attention, and compete equally. This is a great example of a saison, light, complex and delicious.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2014
at 17:16
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Wine Club. Pours opaque black with a medium creamy dark brown head that dissipates slowly with nice lacing. Aroma is very roasty, cooca, anise, molasses, charred wood. Flavor is fairly sweet but with a strong compensating bitterness, anise, burned malts, baking cocoa prominent. Fullish body, creamy mouthfeel. A pretty solid effort.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2014
at 21:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Deep brown body with a frothy, beige head, rapidly diminishing. Aroma of roasted grain, nuts, caramel. Note of fruit and a hint of metal. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Dry finish. Nuts, roast and caramel tastes. Nice balance of a malty beer with bittering hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2014
at 08:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy yellow with large frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is strong yeast, bubblegum, and clove. Medium mouthfeel with citrus and yeast with light dry finish. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2014
at 20:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to my friend Johnny: Poured a hazy golden with white head. Aroma was dank buddy hops. Taste is light hops and grain. I feel that this was a bit past its prime and had fallen off, just by the overall hops character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2014
at 15:39
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from May 2011, Batch 2 that I found hiding in my cellar. I do not have high hopes for what age did to this one. Aroma is fairly fruity with a lot of overripe stone fruit, pear and red apple.Medium honey notes with some lighter pepper and grains of paradise phenolic notes. Light caramel and toasted bread malt notes. Pours a hazy, copper orange with a medium sized, fairly thin head that recedes pretty quickly to the edges where it lingers for a bit. Flavor is moderately sweet with quite a bit of honey character. Moderate notes of overripe stone fruit, pear and red apples. Faint grain notes of toasted bread, caramel and rye. Medium light bitterness and no hop flavor. Light phenolics. Hints of alcohol in the finish with lingering honey and red apple. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a pretty over the hill beer. The honey notes from oxidation are showing strongly, but there is not any paper/cardboard character. Quite a bit of fruit character, but the malt notes have faded. As it warms, I pick up more bread and toast notes. Phenolics are complimentary and kept in check.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2014
at 20:26
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
27.06.2014, 0,65l bottle @ home:
Nice creamy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet fruity, dried dark fruits, caramel malts, grass, yeast, butterscotch, citrus, "knekk", almond cake, dark sugar, hints of alcohol. Taste is kind of harsh and metallic, caramel malts, grass, metal tank, hay, yeast, cardboard, chalk, almond essence, butterscotch, dried dark fruits. Medium bitterness, harsh mouthfeel, kind of a fizzy carbonation. Meh!
Nice creamy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet fruity, dried dark fruits, caramel malts, grass, yeast, butterscotch, citrus, "knekk", almond cake, dark sugar, hints of alcohol. Taste is kind of harsh and metallic, caramel malts, grass, metal tank, hay, yeast, cardboard, chalk, almond essence, butterscotch, dried dark fruits. Medium bitterness, harsh mouthfeel, kind of a fizzy carbonation. Meh!
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2014
at 12:00