Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Salmon River Bitter from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the Sockeye brewpub pouring copper with off white head and some sheet lacing. The aroma is sweetness and citrus then moving into some nuttiness. Interesting aromatic combination. Enjoyable flavor with the same sweetness running into orange zest like citrus as noted in the nose. The citrus bitterness grows and seems to pick up some resiny pine by midway. Mild roasted malt join the hop resin to create a modestly dry finish.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Angel's Perch Amber from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the Sockeye brewpub. Pours copper with light tan head and spotty lacing. The aroma is a snoot full of malts running from mildly roasty to nutty to a bit of biscuit. The taste is roasty and nutty and then punctuated by pine hop bitterness here and there. Into the finish a pleasing level of nuttiness rises up a bit along with a sense of earthy notes. The roasted malts help dry it out some into the finish with a light amount of astringency.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Woolybugger Wheat Ale from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the Sockeye brewpub. Pours up gold with slight haze, off white head and a thick coating of lace left on the glass. The mild aroma is sweet with sugary malts, some wheat and a sense of wort. The taste has an assertive hoppy start with spice and earthiness. By midway I get a touch of wheat being noticed rolling into a thin layer of sweet malts. It ends a bit dry.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Galena Summit Kölsch Ale from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the Sockeye brewpub. Pours clear gold with bright white head. The mild aroma is mostly sugary sweet malt and a sense of yeast along with spicy and grassy hops. The taste begins with a brief pulse of spicy and floral hops before a wave of sugary sweet malts and graininess roll them over. Into the finish there’s lingering spicy and floral hop bitterness. It tries to be too sweet but the pleasing level of hop bitterness keeps the sweetness somewhat in check.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Dagger Falls IPA from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle courtesy of jcwattsrugger. 12oz bottle pours hazy deep copper with off white head. The aroma is sweet with caramel and malts as well as vague citrus hops and a sense of pine hops off in the background. The taste begins a bit tart with grapefruit and orange peel like sharp hop bitterness and only giving up a sliver of ground to malt sweetness from time to time. It mainly stays bitter with citrus hops right to the finish and getting a tad resiny too. Nice bitter IPA. I had it recently on tap too and it seemed to have less tart like acidity than the bottle.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Red Stag Porter from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at Sockeye. Pours out a dark brown with some red highs topped with a small tan head. Aroma WOW a nice roast malt with tons of sweet chocolate and light cherries. Taste was of Red Velvet cake. Lots of sweetness and cherries, but still not over the top sweet. I am very happy that Sockeye keeps mixing it up and doing fun things.
Fata2683 (2200) reviewed Winterfest from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle thanks to John, pours light caramel, thin white head. Very nice aroma of cascade and orange marmalade and alcohol. Wow, lots of alcohol and sweet bready malts. A very interesting winter beer.
jcwattsrugger (14787) reviewed Winterfest from Sockeye Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
RBWG@Ravenous-22oz bottle-pours a light tan head and copper color. Aroma is medium malt-roasty/peat, secondary herbal. Taste is medium malt-roasty/peat/caramel, secondary herbal/pine hops bite.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Salmon River Bitter from Sockeye Brewing 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Sockeye Boise. pours out a clear crisp amberish gold topped with a small off white cream head. Aroma was of a nice hop combo, floral, pine, and some citrus. Taste was plenty of grapefruit peel bitter hops along with a malt to help round it out.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Growler - thanks BuckeyeBoy! Dark chocolate color with a thin brown head. Sweet aroma is mostly chocolate and roast alongside the underlying espresso. Very light hints of the barrel. Tastes a lot more chocolate oriented that I remember the original batch to be. Light roast and espresso. Seems obvious that JD barrels were used, Old No. 7 just can’t hide, and gets a little overbearing in the end. At first I compared this to a boilermaker via porter, but it mellows as the glass warms to room temp. A little thin in the body too. By the last third of the glass it has mellowed to it’s peak. With the original being one of my favorite Sockeye brews, this just doesn’t do it for me. I just hate it when the barrel aging becomes more focal than the brew itself. Again, thanks for the bottle Jeremy, I really enjoyed trying this.