Oakes (33493) reviewed Old Bawdy from Pike Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Luminescent bright amber appearance. Chewy, earthy...and big. The usual brown sugars, earthy hops and chewy caramels. Decently made, archetypal barley wine. Damnit, I waited 15 years for this!
crit200 (5324) reviewed Tandem from Pike Brewing Company 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Reddish brown,lasting beige head.Sweet/salty nose.Big sweet dark malt profile, lightly roasted, decently hopped. Quite nice. Light alcohol heat
Oakes (33493) reviewed Kilt Lifter from Pike Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle, Brewery Creek
Dark golden-amber colour. Toasty, caramelly, mushroomy earthiness in the aroma. Flavour starts woody - this is both anglohop and toasty malt - and gathers up a little bit of brown sugar sweetness as it goes. Too damn clean for style. Finishes more caramelly and mushroomy than anything else, like you caught the ovation but missed the show.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Old Bawdy from Pike Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12oz Bottle 2006 Pours out a amber topped with a off white head. Aroma is GREAT thanks Jordan
BoiseBrewBlog (9108) reviewed Old Bawdy from Pike Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pours a slightly hazy amber with a nice white creamy head. Spotty lacing. Sweet caramel nutty brown sugar aroma. Some alcohol notes as well. Flavor is nutty, smooth sweet, and the ABV is apparent. Plenty of bitter piney hops. Lingering bitter bite. Thanks Jordan
jake65 (5821) reviewed Old Bawdy from Pike Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle: Pours a clear orange/amber with a smaller white head that disapated quickly. Damn near bronze, just like the description! Fruity, hoppy aroma with hints of alcohol. Some citrus. Taste is citrus hops with fruits, caramel, and some malt presence. Smooth, warming finish. Quite good. Thanks to Jordan for sharing.
Troopie (5667) reviewed Monk's Uncle from Pike Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught at Concordia Ale house. Aroma of bananas, cloves oil. Flavour of bread, malt, alcohol. Quite powerful with lingering malt finish. The individual parts were good, but somehow they didn’t marry to make an outstanding beer.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Kilt Lifter from Pike Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A hazy amber beer with a lazing light brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of ginger and caramel, while the flavor is sweet fruity combined with notes of ginger, leading to a dry and slighlty bitter end.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Tandem from Pike Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Draught pint at Redbones on 11/30/06
Drab, olive-brown with dark, stained oak and beige tones throughout. Off-white/beige head is small but fairly stable, providing light lacing. Medium to medium-low clarity.
Not much aroma, very dull and slightly metallic maybe? Sourish coffee with some light cocoa notes and bits of brown bread. Nuttiness trails off and all is soon overtaken by a leafy, green hoppiness. Lightly floral and spicy, not very bitter or strong. Nothing very distinctive here and in fact it smells rather damp and musty.
The flavor seems to hint more at the problem. Either this is just a very poorly made beer (doubtful) or there is something wrong with the batch. Peanuts, coffee grinds and a tannic malt quality are stretched way too lean across a lightly watery body. No malt sweetness or suppleness, with rather bitter/bland hops as an afterthought. Vegetal qualities emerge quickly, on the finish, pointing at DMS or some other culprit. It never regains any real good qualities. Mossy/moldy, musty, vegetal, thin and lightly bready. Carbonation is moderate, wet, washed out texture.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed XXXXX Stout from Pike Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught pints at Redbones, 11/7/06 and 12/10/06
Deep, deep raven-black beer is opaque through the middle, but upon settling, and against the light, shows garnet-auburn tints on the edges, with some clarity at the sides. Creamy, beige/light-tan head sits atop the beer, not very much of it, but quite well-retained, providing moderate lacing.
Very interesting bittersweet nose has a cohesive mix of cola, prunes, raisins, brandy, dates, maraschino cherries and moderate roast. It smells fluffy....with vanilla cream notes lingering long on the finish and medium sweet cherry notes really adding a great strength of aroma. Not sure what’s creating the cherry vanilla-like nose, but it’s tastefully done. Some light milk chocolate and very light bakers chocolate give additional balance, while a light, fruity hoppiness emerges with warming. Probably the responsible party for the cherry notes, and sure enough, some light citrus notes emerge as well, over time. But aromatic and juicy are the hops, only lightly done and not bitter in the least. Promising is the aroma.
A combination of chewy, almost caramel-molasses-like consistency, well-placed jabs of dry roast and then a softly sweet cherry vanilla flavor certainly pleases. Very well balanced, though tending somewhat sweet, the initial chocolate-caramel-vanilla flavors evolve in to a vast sea of dark fruits. Raisins, prunes, dates, cherries...A faint bit of tartness, be it dark malt or lacto induced helps nip the sweetness and the finish ends with a toned-down roastiness, that incorporates more light chocolate and a touch of leafy, juicy hops. This beer is all about warming. Though it’s good cool, the complexities that emerge as it breathes/warms are just plain impressive. All the interesting, unique flavors of a foreign stout, even something like De Dolle’s, but with plenty more chocolate, light hops and vanilla creaminess bringing back in to the American realm. None of the sugary sweetness of a foreign stout and more complexity than your usual oatmeal or standard brewpub stout. No alcohol noted in aroma or flavor. Fairly engaging carbonation is low to moderate, fitting the bill aptly.