Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pours a cloudy amber. Sour and fruity up front. Acidic bite. Can taste the alco more than I prefer
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Taster at Vermont Tap. Clear, light amber, skin of head. Aroma is sweet, caramel. Taste is malty, sweet, gingerbread.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz can from Total Wine - San Antonio. Pours a semi-clear gold color with a white head and decent retention. A few spots of lacing. Light pale malt and bread aroma. The taste follows the nose, with more bready flavor than pale malts. Tastes more like a blonde ale to me. Crisp enough mouthfeel. Medium-light body. Not bitter. Very smooth, clean, light and easy drinking. A good, simple everyday beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
I stumbled across a 12 oz can of Kung Fu Robot at a Trader Joe's in Ft. Worth last week, go figure. I will always buy a single IPA, particularly if it is from a Texas brewery. I bring out my ABGB snifter (another Austin brewer) on this one. The pour is medium gold with a splendid, pure white head of fluffy foam. The nose is nice, mostly pine with some lemon-lime and grass. The taste veers more towards grapefruit along with dense cedar, varnish and a hint of pineapple. The hops represent, I thoroughly enjoy Mosaic, with a sweetish but distinct bitterness. I would definitely purchase again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Perfectly clear deep amber and copper coloured body with a thin, pure white head that fades very quickly and leaves nothing on top at all. Aroma of yes, rosemary, lemons, thyme, grain, light funk, cardboardie malts (not even real malt at all) with a lot of dry, ery fragrant floral and grassy components - deep and strong. Light-bodied; Strong grassy, herbal, lemony and very spicey flavour up front with the rosemary and thyme coming out first and foremost with a lot of funky malt, soft dry flowers and a dash of caster sugar sweetness towards the end. Aftertaste is dry, very mild and showing a lot of spices where there would be some malt body, hop bitterness or flavours of some sort that aren't in the type of rosemary, thyme or oregano. Overall, a pretty standard gruit that has a hard time finding its footing, due to such a low malt and body component, but the spices are nice and work out well, but without any real hop bitterness, complexity and depth of flavours and most importantly - any body to make this substantive, this beer just sort of falls off entirely after the initial spice copmonent comes through - even really in the nose. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Whole Foods (the Original Location) in Austin, Texas (Lamar) on 15-October-2019 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington on 15-March-2020.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed 4th Tap Bat Country from 4th Tap Brewing Co-Op 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Deep, pitch black coloured body with a smooth, very thin and incredibly fast-dying tan head that starts at perhaps a single centimetre in height, if that, and fades to nothing. Aroma of roasted malt, molasses, smoked peat, alcohol and a lot of burnt coffee and scalded lactose notes. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong roasty malt notes show at first with a lot of molasses and pitted fruit sweetness to support the malt, but also some coffee and grainy flavours and a dash of alcohol towards the end that complements the roast. Aftertaste shows a ton of bitterness, mainly from the roasted malt, but of course from the coffee and deep, molasses and caramelised sugar flavours that hit so strong earlier on. Overall, a deep and very strong stout that shows it's style and is deeply bitter, grainy, earthy, nutty and also showing a lot of coffee, chocolate and assertive bitterness from the molasses sweetness at the very end. Good to sample and well worth trying, especially during the colder months, but since those don't really appear in Texas - pretty much anytime. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from [the original] Whole Foods in Austin, Texas on 15-October-2019 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington on 16-February-2020 on a chilly [winter] day.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 oz. can purchased at Specs in Austin, TX. Pours a clear dark amber color with a small beige head and decent retention. A few spots of lacing. Typical acidic caramel amber ale aroma. Caramel-forward flavor with a slightly harsh acidic finish. Smoother than most amber ales. Medium body. I am falling out of love with this style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
12oz can pours a clear gold with some white head. Nose is lemony, vinous, flinty, dusty. Flavor has malt, lemon, a little calcium, paper. Finishes watery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
12oz can at the DC Spring RB Tasting. Poured a clear pale color with a fizzy white head. Aroma was light funky notes, touch sweet. Light malts. A touch dry, but not overly dry. Slightly effervescent finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
From a 12 oz can at the 2019 RB DC tasting. Pours a clear pale straw. Aromas are orange. Flavors are moderately bitter.