thegreenrooster (7275) reviewed Hopalicious from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pour is an orange with a small soapy white head. Aroma is deffinatly your pine/grapefruit hops combo. Flavor is more of an earthy malt then hop bitterness but that is what the brewer was going for. Still this is a good beer to taste as its not over the top with the hops and you can tell a lot of work went into creating this beer.
thegreenrooster (7275) reviewed Mercy from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pour is a dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is of molasses and candi sugar. Flavor is very sweet with some dark fruit and again more sugar. Very thick mouthfeel and almost too syurpy but there is nothing really offensive about this. A bit thin for a quad but there are enough Belgian things going on with this one to put it over the top.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Big Slick from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at the brewpub. Opaque black color with a foamy off-white head. Roasty and malty, but very smooth around the edges. Big body, Full out thick malt. Roasty, toasty, warm. Pretty good, big stout.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Bamboozleator from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at the brewpub. Thick orange-brown color. Very thick malty tastes. Some sublte hoppy bitterness underneath. Thick and rich, a very nice American DB. Lacks some of the subtle malt and yeast qualities found in some German examples, but makes up for it with a fresh quality mouthfeel.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Sticky McDoogle from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at the brewpub. Orange-brown color. Nice foamy head. Looks filtered, but hard to verify. Well balanced, with the smooth maltiness per the style, but with a respectable hoppiness as well. A touch more earthy freshness than a typical Scottish Ale.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Ballistic IPA from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at the brewpub. Brown-orange color. Foamy, soapy head. All out Amarillo aroma, very nice. Hop taste is in your face too, quite a big Amarillo blast. Strawlike bitter and dry notes. Some citrus too. Very well done.
beastiefan2k (4724) reviewed Mercy from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
From esjaygee, thanks Steve. Pours has a small head but it sticks around. Color of the beer is a thick, yet glowing, reddish-orange-copper. Cannot see through it but it looks beautiful. Aroma has a bit of that candy-ish, sweet syrup thing going but it isn’t bad here. Plays well, just there and not overbearing. Otherwise, there is sweet mallt and light alcohol coming through. It all works well together to represent an American version of a Quad. Taste is lightly fruity sweet syrup (not too sweet). Easy drinking yet full and alcoholic and sweet. So it balances the line fairly well. The problem is while it isn’t "bad" there isn’t coming from it. It is just a fruity, lightly sweet, strong ale. I would never really think of this as a quad. But for what it is, it is decent,
It is what is is..................................
12 oz bottle, Bells tulip glass.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Mercy from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a fading off-white head over a clear golden body. Aroma is sugary, grain, alcohol and plums. Taste is earthy, caramel and sugary with a good amount of alcohol and light fruit. Creamy palate.
beastiefan2k (4724) reviewed Ballistic IPA from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from esjaygee, thanks Steve. Its an iced tea heavy IPA, I really get a lot of iced tea, in a good way (some may hate it), both nose and flavor. The lightly sweet, yet lightly green hops work great with the bulky iced tea brew. Some light bitterness throughout, again well integrated in the beer. Its medium bodied yet goes down easy. Color is dark copper, hazy, cannot see through it, seems unfiltered with the crud at the bottom of the bottle. Have no idea where that alcohol is coming from, well hidden beneath the layers of the beer.
12oz bottle, Free State willibecher glass.
notalush (7339) reviewed Bamboozleator from Ale Asylum 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Strong beers to not appear to be this brewers forte - I swear if this were not so clean, I would have believed I was drinking straight up wort - tastes like sugar sweet malt with vaguely bock-ish character hiding underneath (caramel, nuts, raisin) - smooth, I suppose, but mostly just sweet, boring, and lacking the richness and complexity you’d want in a doppel.