notalush (7339) reviewed Firstling from Cerebral Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tulip at the brewery - hazy gold with a substantial head - fucking great example of a young brett saison - vibrant and fresh throughout, with grassy, pepper hops, some nice spicy phenols from the saison yeast, and subtle tropical funkiness from the brett - creamy texture - dry, flinty, lightly tart finish - really nice.
notalush (7339) reviewed Binary Fission from Cerebral Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pint at the brewery - turbid orange - soapy lace - kind of muddy and muddled all around, but a decent flavor profile under the muddiness - strong citric hop profile brings s bright-ish acidity to cut through the sweet, bready malt profile - moderate rye presence - eh, it’s alright.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Dreamy Thing from Cerebral Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Sample at Collaboration Fest on 03/19/2016. Hazy golden color with a medium thin white head that burns away steadily to a wispy film. Stringy lacing. Aroma of citrus, funky yeast, hops and malt. Light to medium body with flavors of citrusy hops, brett yeast and malt. The finish is funky with a citrus and herbal yeast aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
notalush (7339) reviewed Greenwich Mean from Cerebral Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pint at the brewery - hazy amber - I’m not often a fan of these British styles done with American hops, and this is not exactly an exception - the hop character is very spicy and seems a lot more bitter than the 37 ibu listed in the deScription - there is still a rich malt backbone, but it is dominated by the Munich malt they used, making this almost taste like a hoppy Oktoberfest at times - there is a slight minerality to it that lends a certain authenticity, but overall this a marginally enjoyable mish-mash of a beer.
notalush (7339) reviewed Suspicious Coin from Cerebral Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Tulip at the brewery - turbid gold with a fluffy head - flavor is rustic, dry grains, peppery phenolic, lightly earthy/dusty yeast, tropical fruit hoppiness - soft texture - very dry and quite bitter - the addition of simcoe throws me off a bit, adding a kind of garlicky note - other than this, there is some nice stuff happening - spicy phenolics, tropical fruit, soft wheat malt flavors, background hints of funkiness - finish has the slightest huskiness to the malt character - needs a little cleaning up, but a lot of promise.
notalush (7339) reviewed Uh Huh Honey from Cerebral Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Tap at the brewery - hazy orange pour - standard abrasive, tough, boozy, and lightly husky/unclean American imperial IPA - some juicy citrus and pine - strong and abrasive bitterness - finish is toasty grain husks - hard to enjoy all that much.
notalush (7339) reviewed Dreamy Thing from Cerebral Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tap at the brewery (in it’s own logo glass) - turbid straw with a fluffy head/lace - seems like they were almost going for an Orval thing here - there are some tropical Brett notes in the nose, but it mostly has that rustic barnyard and oddly inviting plastic phenol Orval character - medium body, soft carbonation - light sweetness up front, but mostly bone dry from middle to finish - hay, straw - light pepper, dusty basement, musky pineapple - finish is dry, peppery, flinty - solid Brett pale.
notalush (7339) reviewed Work From Home from Cerebral Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Taster at the brewery - nearly black, minimal head/lace - nose is mostly coffee and some maple and dark malt - oily texture - dense and complex coffee flavor, maple, smoke, vanilla - a bit hot in the finish, but otherwise full and flavorful, without too much acidity from the coffee infusion.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Tulip at the brewery - lightly hazy gold - nose of zest pepper, grass, herbs - some notes of white grape, light tropical Brett - soft and full in the mouth - quite dry and herbal - a lot of white grape, mild Brett funk, grass, pepper - finish is moderate spicy and herbal, along with a light balancing tropical sweetness - tasty.
notalush (7339) reviewed Strange Claw from Cerebral Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Half pint at the brewery - a huge step above their previous attempt at IPA - soft texture from the malts used - a nice citric tang and acidity through the middle - flavors of wheat through the middle - peppery bitterness arriving late - Finishing dry, flinty, and moderately bitter - nice.