nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Good Familiars from Soundgrowler Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at Soundgrowler. Light, wheaty, sort of tastes young, creamy. Nice earthy smoke tone. A pinch watery.
nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Undermountain King from Soundgrowler Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Soundgrowler. At 4.4% this is definitely the lowest ABV Baltic Porter I've ever had. Great appearance, deep unfiltered brown, translucent edges. Kind of a great Porter. Low ABV really lets all the components shine. Rich, sweet malts..doughy body, pleasant clean lager notes differentiate it from a Stout but still overlaps with a Porter well. Good.
nuplastikk (10543) reviewed Burning Hill from Soundgrowler Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Tap at Soundgrowler. Kind of bright and soapy, hoppy, resinous for the style. Not really true to style...kind of a smoky APA.... drinkable but odd.
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trapped (8421) reviewed Big Poppa Penn from Soundgrowler Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Can, from Beermiscuous, Chicago. Pours faintly cloudy lemon yellow with a foamy whitish head that flops fast, grain aroma, medium carbonation, mildly bitter malty taste, thin body, long finish. Decent lager.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Flight Taster at Soundgrowler. Markedly clearer than the Orange Haze I had before this. BUT, the nose actually has a bit more orange, and maybe some papaya. A much sharper Pacific Northwest hob bite, but it's also thick with malts and alcohol, so that the overdone elements are at least balanced. I tend not to differentiate one double IPA from another, but I agree that this would be a favorite of many hopheads.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Flight taster at Soundgrowler. Very slight haze, with a thin ring of leggy foam. No surprises in the smell, a good sign in a light style. Even more hop note than in the previous beers (Mexican lagers). Toasty malts at hand. Some flowery hop, maybe even a note of hibiscus. But yes, a nice dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cooler 16 oz. can from Soundgrowler. Well, they're big on lagers and hazies, I decided to go a different way. Hazy gold color poured in a Stella glass. Well=behaved, rapidly dwindling head of white foam. Toasty malt nose, with just a bit of fermentation funk. Rather tasty, and indeed funky. Sometimes, the faux Belgian beers go south in a brewery that tries to do this as a side. But this is pretty solid, a table beer in that you'll want to sit and enjoy this instead of slamming it while mowing the lawn.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Flight taster. Truly hazy yellow, more leggy foam. The Amarillo cat box smell I first noticed way back with my first Gumballhead. Thick and chewy beer, with some fruit, a not of citrus, and pine resin bitterness. Hoppy and fruity like you'd expect.
McDermottDrink (4627) reviewed La Calavera from Soundgrowler Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sample at Soundgrowler. A bit more color than the Tortilla Hands. This one is done with less corn. Rather nondescript, light beer nose. Frankly, more in the BudMiller wheelhouse. A bit of sharp hop in the palate. Just circling back to regular beers lets me see what I like about it in the first place.