Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle brought back from SoCal trip. Clear dark brown with a full lasting tan head. Slightly sweet woody roasted aroma with some vanilla. Pretty mild. Nice bold roasted flavor with some coffee and a bit of ash and fairly barrel aged tasting for a non BA beer. Decent bitterness at the end and a slight metallic note. Fairly thin dry pallate and appropriately soft carbonation. Don’t pick up much Vanilla. Decent all around porter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Slightly hazy golden coloured body with a orange tint and a thinnish off-white head, about only a centimetre tall. Aroma of alcohol, yeast, coriander seed, curacao and a bit of rye - not much though. Medium-bodied; Assertive yeast and a good amount of coriander seed and lemon and orange rinds. Aftertaste is fairly mild with the yeast and malt coming through but not much of anything else. A touch of sugars at the end with a hint of bitterness. Overall, an acceptable beer - but nothing sublime and with a few good tastes, nice, but not as complex as I was expecting. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Super Jr Market (BestDamnBeer Shop) in San Diego, California on 06-May-2012 for US$6.49 sampled at home in Washington on 05-July-2012.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22oz bomber pours clear copper with tan head. The aroma has a good load of bitter hops that are vaguely spicy, pine and earthy citrus with a light background of biscuit malts. The taste is pleasingly hoppy with both flavor and bitter hops creating a sweet orange hard candy sensation along side of resiny pine bitterness. To midway the bitterness really ramps up and into the finish it gives way to hints of biscuit malts and caramel malts. Nice full hoppy rich brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a clear golden / copper with a tiny, quickly-dissipating white head. Aroma exudes loads of resinous hops, moderate tropical fruit character (mango and pineapple), and a generous portion of caramel malt - slight candied sugar component too though not dominant. Flavour has truckloads of resinous hops, not much of the tropical fruits, a perfect amount of sweetness, and just enough backing of caramel malt. Extremely hoppy and quite bitter, though never too puckering on the palate. Certainly a superior example of how you do a Imperial IPA - brilliantly balanced while still being very hoppy but not too annoyingly astringent. Most excellent and highly drinkable.
bb (18428) reviewed Simtra Triple IPA from Knee Deep Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream colored head. Huge summer fruit and grapefruit aroma with light pine. Summer fruit and caramel flavor with light alcohol and pine. Medium-plus bodied. Good bitterness. Summer fruit and caramel lingers with grapefruit, pine, and alcohol.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Hoptologist from Knee Deep Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
22 oz. bottle, pours almost clear golden with a small off-white head. Aroma of pineapple, candied sugar, and some citrus hops - hinting at a sweeter IIPA than normal. Flavour of pineapple, mangos, caramel malt, candied sugar, leaving just a small citrus hoppiness on the finish. Too much residual sugar for my liking for a IIPA, but still mildly enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bomber from BevMo Salinas. Nose is piney hops with an ivy bit. Clear copper orange with a medium, heavy lacing, pale yellow head. Flavor is fairly lightly bitter with pine in the background.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed IPA from Knee Deep Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
From the 6/2012 3R6P tasting +++ Sampled from a 22 oz brown bottle this beer poured an orange-caramel color with a large foamy orange-tan head that lingered and left ok lacing. The aroma was sweetish and tangy caramel, honey, grapefruit and pine. The flavor was bitter and dryish caramel, nut, pine, grapefruit, peach and a touch of pepper. The finish was long, tangy and sour with lingering caramel, pine and grapefruit. Moderately full bodied. Solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
22oz bomber pours clear deep copper with thin near white head. The aroma pulses with firm levels of grapefruit, tangelo and mango as well as a bit of sweet candy like maltiness. The taste feels Pale Ale thin and sessionable with crisp bold bitter and flavor citrus hops. I get malt sweetened grapefruit and mango and then slight spicy hop notes here and there too. This is good clean fun. Nice!
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
sweet candy lager aroma. i wish my bomber bottle label looked like the one on the bomber pictured. Lots of flavor in this alky mild beer. very nice head that fades rapidly. taste is somewhat chewy and may i say leathery. pale yellow color. finish is quite beery but not really rude, goes down easy. good sizzle. not as behaved as a real golden or blonde lager but ok none the less. intriguing.