Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Amber brown pour, small head. Smells of rich caramel malt and booze. The flavor is of caramel malt, piney hops, and alcohol. Full bodied. Good balance. Very enjoyable, though the brandy barrel aged version is better.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours dark brown with a small light tan head that laces heavily. It smells of roast malt and some piney hops. The flavor is moderately bitter with roast malt and resinous hops. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Apparently they had Gnometown brewing a beer under this name previously, but the can I had definitely said brewed by Hop River.
Pretty good IPA. Citrusy. Moderate hops bitterness. Good malt balance. Medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Brewed for Ducky’s. I had it at Spoke & Ivy, another local restaurant with the same owner.
Pours clear pale gold. Smells of grainy malt and mild hops with a touch of citrus. The flavor is grainy and bready with mild to moderate hops bitterness that at least in hop level is more like a German or Czech Pilsner than a pale lager. It’s light bodied and pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours black with a small, lingering tan head. Aroma is dark roast malt, coffee, and chocolate. The flavor is super roasty. Chocolate and coffee go well with big malt backbone. It’s well balanced. Full body. There’s a long, roasty finish. Excellent. This hardly ever happens for me, but I actually prefer this original version to the bourbon barrel aged one.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours black with a minimal head. Bourbon dominates the aroma. Oak, caramel, vanilla, roast malt. The flavor is also bourbon led. Heavy on the bourbon. Toffee, oak, vanilla, roast malt, and a little coffee. It’s quite sweet and kind of boozy. Very enjoyable.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy orange pour. Lingering off white head. Smells of citrus and resinous hops. The flavor is moderately bitter. Citrus and piney hops. Malty sweetness. Unfortunately it leans towards a cough syrupy character to me. I get that from some of the hazy and red IPAs. Still fairly good.
dwest (2949) reviewed Goal Side from Hop River Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
16oz can at JK O'Donnells in FW. Very nice Kolsch - crisp, easy drinker - very crushable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Pours a hazy deep amber with minimal head. At first it almost smells like an intense red wine that got extra time in the barrels. There are grapes, oak, alcohol, and malt. The flavor is sweet with toffee, grapes, figs, oak, malt, and some alcohol heat that works well here. Excellent.
This was a special tap only brandy barrel aged version of their Brothers barley wine. They had bottles of the standard version at the time.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Pours clear light gold with a small white head. Smells of grainy malt. Tastes of lightly sweet,!grainy malt. Straightforward pale lager. Meh.