BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Megaphylls from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
16oz @ Phill's shared with Farees, Josh, and Ryan.
Aroma: hop burn, juicy, some tropical fruits.
Taste: along the same lines, quite harsh, chalky.
Overall: meh.
Oakes (33493) reviewed The Hermit Hefeweizen from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
They've released other hefes under similar names, so I imagine every name tweak is matched by a recipe tweak. Well, they've been very good so far and this is the best one yet. This is a style Fern + Cedar brews very well.
Opaque, bright banana, wheaty body, light acidity. Creamy and vibrant at the same time. Complex, flavourful, not a single off-note anywhere. This is dialled right in.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Pink Lemonade Sour from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pinkish-amber, lemony, lots of kettle sour, kind of simple. This one kind of thuds for me, lacking the brightness that the passionfruit one had.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Pacific Standard Brown from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Murky, medium brown, medium head. Toasty, good malt complexity, sort of an off-dry finish. Pretty good.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Tiny Change IPA 20 from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Thin head, dullish, moderate bitterness, sort of nondescript hop expression and uncompelling malt base.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Passionfruit Lime Sour from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pale with a slight haze. Thin head. Kettle, lime is decent and some sweetish passionfruit notes balance it out fairly well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4.5
Opaque and pale. This is one of the most egregious chalky things I've had in a while. Just straight hop burn, no hop expression. Malt base is too thin, but not much would be able to hold up this excess of unbalanced drek. This beer is everything that is wrong with hazy IPA.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Spice Cake Holiday Ale from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Really soft nutmeg, vanilla creme, mellow toffee, caramel. Good creamy body, and balanced spices - even with things like ginger it's actually mellow.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Megaphylls from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Murky dull yellow. Not a great look. Medium head. There's a somewhat generic hop aroma. On the palate, it's dullish, with vaguely citrusy hop character, but the malts aren't that great. Bitterness is low, there's some sweetness but it's not coming together.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Gnome Home from Fern + Cedar Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Darkish amber, medium head. Lots of malt - biscuit, toffee, toast, balanced bitterness and plenty of I guess fir tip? Spruce? Some sort of tree. Well-balanced.