Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Catawba, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out soapy, floral, citrus notes upfront, with little presence felt from the ginger. Flavour is odd, with a rather subdued ginger character giving way to a perfumey, floral and soapy character. Not a good marriage of flavours.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Friki Tiki (Papaya) from Catawba Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Catawba, pours a hazy bright golden orange with a small white head. Aroma bings out a decent mix of piney hops and papaya, with a crisp bready malt character. Flavour is along the same lines, with a nice balance between piney hops and papaya, finishing with a nice lingering bitterness. Solid stuff.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Breakfast Stout from Catawba Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Catawba, pours a deep dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out toasted malt, light oats and a hint of cocoa. Flavour is similar, with dry oats and a bitter cocoa powder. Fair robustness for such a low gravity stout. Good stuff.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Hopness Monster from Catawba Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Catawba, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out fresh piney hops, with subtle fruitiness and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour reveals a nicely bitter piney hop character, with light fruitiness, and crisp biscuity malt. Fruity and crisp. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Pour is dark than usual for the style, almost tan with a small white head. Aroma is some peaches with red berries. Maybe some honey as well. Flavor is again a sweet red berry with some chewy honey malt. No bitterness is felt. This was just ok for the style not a huge fruity hop other than some berries and this way more on the thicker side giving this more of a fruit smoothie feel.
Peachy peachy, crisp and light.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft. Milk, lemon, biscuit malt and straw aroma. Golden yellow with moderate white head. Moderately sweet lemon, milky biscuit malt and mildly bitter straw flavor. Good body. Solid cream ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at State of Origin. Pours a clearish gold with a finger of foam. Very light peach aroma with grass and faint cracked wheat notes. Lots of carbonation, crisp and clean. Mild lemon notes with crackery malt and grass. Peach is very muted. Not bad.