Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bronze beer with a dark cream head. Malt and earth aroma. Grapefruit and malt flavor. Medium bodied. Grapefruit and earth lingers with light caramel.
BoiseBrewBlog (9108) reviewed Capt. from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle black with a quick light tan head lots of sharp roasted flavors and muted bitter bite Lingering unfiltered feel
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Capt. from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
22oz bottle thanks to Eric. Pours out a dark brown almost black topped with a sand head. Nose is old hops sweet malts and some roast. Taste is more of the roast some malty notes and a bitterness on the end.
Tinus (5080) reviewed The Sauce from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Brown colour, white head. Aroma of coffee, roasted malts, toast, cold pressed coffee. Coffee flavour, light bitter, light sweet. Coffee finish, sweet malts.
(from 66cL bottle @ Sunday Bottle Share, CBC Clerkenwell, RBESG 2014, London)
bb (18428) reviewed Frank J IPA from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Amber beer with a dark cream head. Pine and earthy aroma with grapefruit and tropical fruit. Tropical fruit and earth flavor with pine and light grapefruit. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Dank earthy grapefruit lingers with pine and light tropical fruit.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Frank J IPA from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bomber from Corti Brothers. The test program was difficult to track. Changes in label colors suggested new versions, but the variations seemed subtle. So, here we finally are. Aroma is roasty malt and earthy/spice. Underlying fruit notes. Med + body. Flavor is spicy and roasty malt. Pretty earthy. The hop is more complex than I can easily decipher. One moment the brain says coffee. Then it says something else. Lots of something else. This is not one of those NW bombs, nor is it one of those here we go again IPAs. The flavors are somewhat mouth wrenching. In a good way. With time wood and leather are coming to mind. Sometimes the nose suggests dark sherry. It is somewhat astringent. It’s clearly bitter, but it is far from a harsh bite. Now some orange citrus seems to pop up. Mouth smacking. Whoops! Now the brain says smoky? Well, let’s just say it’s complex. Maybe even sophisticated. Mind, I just had half a bottle of Schramsberg bubbly, so I’m in verbose mode. Still, you really should get this and take it for a trial run. Good stuff.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Exquisite Kolsch from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught @ Junkyard, 12 Bridlesmith Walk, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 2FZ. [ As Ruhstaller Exquisite Kolsch ].Light unclear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, fruity malt, pale malt, light to moderate hoppy, grass, light to moderate yeasty. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, fruity yeast, malty, yeast, fruit, light grassy. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20141008]
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed The Kenyan [v.2] from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
66cl bomber, from Kingdom Liquors. Ambrée, col beige. Arôme est malté et présentant un bouquet fort centré sur le café, le tout restant assez frais-moulu. Retrouve aussi un léger rétro de biscuité - grains. Palais est malté grillé, un café imposant mais qui ne tombe pas dans le surfait. Ce dernier devient, néanmoins, vite présent et parfois un peu trop pour boire cette bière tout seul. L’houblonné reste présent mais plus à tire indicatif, ajoutant un léger fini agrumes, sec sur la fin avec un café restant persistant.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed The Kenyan [v.2] from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Courtesy of sebletitje. The bottle says ’Sacramento has soul’ and apparently this is a collaboration with Old Soul so that makes sense I guess, I therefore assume this is the same beer. Creamy, thick, light beige head, deep reddish copper colour with some minute yeast bits floating. Aroma dominated by generic coffee powder and coffee with milk, otherwise toast, dried leaves, dried apricot, raisins, old cookies, hazelnuts. Dried fruit taste, orange peel accent, hints of peach and berries, medium carbo, nutty and toasted maltiness with a somewhat resiny mouthfeel but otherwise thinnish body, touch of leafy and peppery hops in the finish but mostly toasted maltiness persisting along with, of course, a big but somewhat generic and not very refined coffee powder flavour. Only truly enjoyable if you like coffee in general, otherwise a bit one-sided, but technically a good beer.
77ships (14506) reviewed The Kenyan [v.2] from Ruhstaller Beer 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanks to sebletitje! 660 ml. bottle sampled. Move aside wax, this bottle has a piece of cloth glued to the neck… Ridiculous really. Amber brown, little mocha / tanned bubbles. Nose is big vegetable roasted coffee, herbal, some sweetness, light malts,… Taste is bitter vegetable roasted coffee, some sweetness, grains, sugar,… A bit. Totally dominated by overly vegetable coffee, I might appreciate sweet & sugary coffee but heavily vegetable coffee isn’t really for me.