Scopey (25115) reviewed Pacific Union from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle thanks to Leighton at the Night of Garbage. It pours lightly hazy golden-amber with a small beige head. The nose is orange sponge cake, toasty, muffin and marmalade. The taste is bitter-sweet, pine, orange peel, minerals, decent bitterness, resin and tangy citrus with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Fine.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Windy Miller Oat Malt Stout from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at the Night of Garbage, thanks to Leighton. It pours hazy deep brown with a medium off-white head. The nose is toast, dried fruits, light tang, candy, caramel, and vinous notes. The taste is smooth, wood, earthy, candy, caramel, toast, cocoa, leather, varnish and dried fruits with dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Fine.
Scopey (25115) reviewed Victorian Porter from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at the Night of Garbage, thanks to Leighton. It pours darkest brown (near black) with a medium beige head. The nose is bitter-sweet, roasted malt, caramel, chocolate, light smoke and ash. The taste is bitter-sweet, roasty, toast, mild acidity, cocoa, coffee and decent bitterness with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. A solid porter by all accounts.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Pacific Union from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500ml Bottle conditioned: BBD Apr 14. Poured into a tall ’8 Sail Brewery’ badged pint glass at home on 20th Dec 13. Nice little story on the well made wrap around label. This is a beer in the ’Deacon John Ales’ series and I’d like some more of them. Pours a hazy amber with a staying off-white head, I left most of the sediment in the bottle, even so it was still a cloudy brew. Intense hop aroma and taste (very West Coast): bitter and tasty. I also got good old farmyard smells and tastes from the beer. Medium bodied and it hid the alcohol very well: I’m warming to this brewery.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Victorian Porter from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
20th December 2013
The (not so) shit beer tasting at Leightons stratospheric flat. Almost opaque brown beer, good pale cream - tan coloured head. Palate is crisp anx dry. Light and crisp mellow dark malt, pleasant light roast. Dark malt tang. Light dry dark malt cream. Comes together well. Light dry finish.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Damson Porter from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle conditioned 500ml: BBD Apr 14, poured carefully into a glass tankard at home on 20 Dec 13. Even with the careful pour I got a huge billowing pillow of tanned foam on my deep, deep brown beer (read black). The pillow soon however became a thin blanket covering. Malty molasses rule the nose and taste: semi-sweet and roasted, not burnt or toasted, just lightly roasted malts giving an even, malty feel to both the aroma and flavouring. There is some fruitiness, plums, OK, damsons too (is there much difference in taste and aroma). A farmyard feel arrived mid-tasting: in the smell and taste as the yeast became more evident with the warming beer. Different and interesting, a little ’home brew’ in some aspects but overall not bad at all: I look forward to trying more beers from these guys.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Pacific Union from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at the Night of Garbage - got of the Internet. Pours hazy gold with a creamy white head. The nose has tangerine, minerals, pine needles, slight marmalade. Medium sweet flavor with further minerals, light sweaty brett, tangerine, grass. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Light piney resins to finish, more minerals, slight bretty tang, poo, tangerine. Nice beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared at the Night of Garbage. More Internet garbage. Pours clear, amber-brown with s creamy tan head. The nose has dry fruits, light tangy semi-dark malts, suggestions of meat. Light to medium sweet with hints of brett, mild earth, grass, leather, dried berries. Light bodied with average carbonation. Lightly drying to finish with mild bretty poo, some dried grassy bitterness, leathery fruits. Very decent.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Victorian Porter from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared at the Night of Garbage. Got from the Net. Pours rich brown with a foamy tan head. The nose has dry chocolate, faint tangy dark fruits, coffee. Light sweet flavor with moderate roast, dirt, mellow coffee, raisins, faint char. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Balanced finish, some tar, cocoa, lightly acidic coffee, dried berries. Nice.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Baltic Amber from 8 Sail Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
500ml Bottle conditioned: BBD Mar 14, poured into an Abbot ale glass tankard @ home on 8th Dec 13. Slight gush as the bottle was opened, the pour produced an amber/brown bodied beer with a mini-haze to it. The head was a huge billowing pillow of white foam. Yeast and musty old wooden barrels came to mind from the smells I got: not unpleasant, but unexpected and very unusual. The taste was similar to the aroma in it’s flavours; musty wood and yeast with a hop sharpness and bitter bite. Different and enjoyable.