Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at the brewpub. Strong aroma of asphaltic properties (fits the style in my view). Brown/black color with a tan head. Flavor is rather old fashioned flavor like linoleum paste used to smell (this is not necessarily a bad thing). Flavor is hint of sour with grassy or floral hop and a lot of dark roasted malt. It’s a strong bugger (9.4 on the tap handle). The finish has a lot of coffee which was not noticed at the start. Overall it fits the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at the brewpub (as Belgian Style Tripel Ale). Sweetish Belgian spice aroma. Bright golden color with a white head. Medium body with very smooth carbonation. Sweet caramel, low impact spice, touch of vanilla, perhaps floral or grassy hop. Leaves the mouth tingling. Should be a sipper.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Strong raspberry aroma. Clear, deep Cherry 7-Up color with a pinkish head. Thinnish body with fizzy carbonation. Flavor is raspberry, followed by wheat, finishing with a little raspberry seed bitter. Clean and refreshing. Likely one of the "better" raspberry concoctions.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Pale Ale from Cascade Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at the brewpub. Bar staff explained that Raccoon and Cascade are legally intertwined. Light citric and malt aromas. Pale golden amber color with a lightly lacing white head. Medium body and medium carbonation. Floral bitter over pale malt. Bitter builds. Good finish. Good drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft at Bailey’s Taproom, Portland. A hazy golden beer with a thick beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of spices, wheat, and oranges. The flavor is very sweet - a bit too much for my liking, with notes of spices, yeast, oranges, and peaches, leading to a dry wheaty finish. A bit too much for me.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Raccoon Lodge Hyper Hop from Cascade Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle courtesy of a travelling friend. This brew pours a murky orange color with a medium thick and foamy light beige head that dissipates slowly. Top ring of lacing with spots underneath. Huge butterscotch aroma blows off pretty quickly, leaving a floral hoppy nose. Medium-bodied and moderately hoppy with butterscotch and malt undertones. The finish is dry and equal parts hops and malt. Pretty enjoyable overall.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught, perhaps a little too cold. Lovely copper colour with much hoppiness. Full mouth with lingering finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Dull brown colour, no head. Oily body. Light tartness, light fruitiness, vague maltiness. This timid example goes nowhere and does nothing.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Raccoon Lodge Old Salt IPA from Cascade Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught pint at Redbones, 12/22/2005. Pours a highly unfiltered lemon and tangerine yellow/orange, tending more to yellow with a bright lime-green tinge to it and a foamy and well-retained white head that creates a good deal of lacing. Aroma has lightly fruity hop notes (oranges, apples, pears, grapefruits) with a soft yeastiness and a dominant pale malt sugariness, creamy sweet and lightly honey-like. A touch of limes and lemons lingers. Flavor is mostly grapefruit up front, cleansing the palate to be replaced by a simple, pale malt sugariness, creamy-honey sweetness, but yet more grainy in texture than usual. Really not much more than pale malt and cascades/centennials in flavor (and aroma, more or less) with light yeast freshness. Body is medium, texture is round and lightly creamy, with aformentioned light graininess. No alcohol apparency. Gets rather one-sided with the simple malt character by the end of the glass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draught pint at Redbones on 12/03/05. Very hazy blonde ale with light rusty copper tones on the edges and a small but well-retained white head. Smells very yeasty, but a dusty, dry yeast and plenty of soily and hay-like hops. Sure, it dosent have that "cloying" aftertaste as they say, but I guess that means they didnt want this to taste like a bock, because it taste like a lager or blonde ale with heavy, yet not bitter farmy, hay-like hops. Essentially no malt sweetness, dry to the extreme, though somehow not too watery, just extremely attenuated. Looking for the bock yeast proves futile, while there is a fair amount of carbonation. As it warms, some light pale malt sweetness is apparent. Lots of graininiess all the while and just no real yeast or malt character which is very important to a bock. Aerated, bubbly texture, very light body and a somewhat vapid mouthfeel overall. Wonder if this was in good shape? 5/3/5/2/8
Draught pint at Redbones on 12/5/06.
Ahh, much improved. Still nothing remotely near a bock (maybe just the very slightest tinge of some lager yeast) but this wasnt overly dry either. Very well balanced and with lots of honey malt and light grassy hops. Smooth texture, medium carbonation. Sessionable, though a bit sweet. 6/3/7/3/12