bhensonb (22605) reviewed Mexican Hat from Solid Ground Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can from Corti Bros. Pours golden amber with a white head. Mildly roasty caramel aroma. Med minus body. Tastes like a very nice Vienna. A bit Noble hop; a bit caramelized breadiness. Not very dry, and mildly bitter. Fits the style.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Wiesn from Solid Ground Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Cap Hop. Pours hazy amber gold with a creamy whitish head. Aroma is a pleasant level of clove with discernible banana. Med body. Flavor is a nice mix of banana and clove. Wheat seems detectable. Fairly well towards dry. Clove covers for bitter. A very tasty here.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Trango from Solid Ground Brewing 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Corti Bros. Pours very hazy grapefruit color gold with a white head. Aroma of tropical and vanilla. Med body. Flavor has a certain tang. It starts juicy, some tropical, some citrus, vanilla hard to get, then it drops into earthy. Pretty dry. Pretty hoppy. Sort of tangy bitter. The earthy part somehow suggest the approaching of dankness. Don't think it gets there tho. A different sort of hazy/juicy IPA. Good stuff.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Arzelle from Solid Ground Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tap at Cap Hop. Pours bright brassy gold with a white head. Aroma is earthy, dusty, gingery, fruity. Med body or better. Flavor starts with apricot, delivers ginger, and arguably some white berry. It’s pretty dry; moderately bitter. It has a fruity richness I’ve seldom encountered. Very nice; deadly drinkable.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Kabru from Solid Ground Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tap at CBF 2018. Pours brassy gold with a white head. Aroma: melon/tropical/citrus/spice? Med body. Flavor is earthy/melon/citrus/tropical?/spice kick in the end. Fruity/bitter/towards dry. Nice.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Cosmic from Solid Ground Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sample shared at Cap Hop by the Solid Ground rep. Pours darkly juicy gold. White head. Aroma is almost dankly juicy, but let’s go with juicy. More citrus than anything, but there’s other fruit. Med body at least. Flavor is juicy, and it’s unexpectedly flavorful citrusy juicy. Not the citrus, just that the flavor is a bit off the current juicy path. Clearly another really good beer from Solid Ground.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Rampart from Solid Ground Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Cap Hop. Pours bright gold with a white head. Aroma is bready with a touch of Noble hop - grassy? Med body. Flavor could be considered crisp and bready. Still thinking grassy hop, but there’s not a lot. More dry than night. Lightly bitter. Flavors seem strong and surprisingly pleasing for me - considering it’s 1) a lager and 2) lightly hopped. Likin’ it.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Šipka from Solid Ground Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Flaming Grill in West Sacramento, CA. Pours brassy gold with a white head. Aroma is bready and a bit herbal. Med body or so. Flavor is decently bitter, with some bready character and something like Saphir hop. Enough flavor to make it pleasantly drinkable Develops some earthiness.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Caledonia from Solid Ground Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Cap Hop. Pours translucent gold with a white head. Moderate pale stone fruit aroma. Med body or better. Flavor is mostly pale prunus fruits with a touch of citrus. Decently dry. Decently bitter. Not breaking new ground, but quite pleasing.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Darvaza from Solid Ground Brewing 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tap at Cap Hop. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Aroma is fruit and citrus. Plus a possible herb/veg note. Med + body. Flavor is towards dank with pale prunus fruits and citrus. Dry. Bitter. Perhaps a touch earthy. It is worthy!