8.5/10
Love this one. West coast for the win
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jun 2021
at 18:26
8/10
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Tried
on 18 Jun 2021
at 18:25
8/10
Excited to visit my first Black-owned brewery. Been a long time coming. Blueberry golden ale. Really well done. Just enough blueb.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jun 2021
at 17:43
8/10
This was really good, but I forgot that I had just had a blood orange mead and I was looking for something milder. The brewer was kind enough to give me a sample.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2021
at 17:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
16 oz can. Well, the draft blueberry cheesecake variant as great, and this is the mere skeleton on which that pastry bomb was built. Pours a deep black color under a thick dark tan head. A note of Guinness sour in the nose, and some of that rye malt, too. Taste has that touch of tartness, and quite a bit of roast malt, again, like a Guinness Foreign Export. Despite, the roast, it's rather easy drinking, with the alcohol staying smooth.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Aug 2020
at 03:46
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft only variant at the taproom. Deep black with a parfait foam the color of a graham cracker crust. Oddly, Graham cracker is my first smell impression. Then some slightly tasty berry and rye malt, taste is deep and smooth! There's some malt roast here, but it's balanced with a lot of creamy lactose. Raspberry becomes more noticeable further along. Lactose and a bit of tart are actually making me think of cream cheese or yogurt. Of course the draft only version is my favorite!
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2020
at 03:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Hazy orange in plastic cup. Thin layer of foam remains on the entire surface. Light orange smell with a bit of tart zest, but still very subdued. Nice orange and citrus flavor with very little sourness. But yes, a bit of tart that comes with the orange flavor. This is actually understated among Black Horizon's many fruity and pastry beers.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2020
at 22:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Nice smell of grains and caramel today malt. Brown beer body, tan foam clinging around the edge. Roasty Malt, a bit of caramel sweetness and Ale fruitiness, balanced by some English style hops. Excellent summer beer, even though it is a bit heartier than your average lawnmower.
Tried
on 06 Jun 2020
at 21:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Taster for Illinois Craft Beer week. Mango is not my specialty, not like dreamsicle, is. Still, I can appreciate the tropical fruit nose and a thin layer of foam that’s still here on my fourth taster. After sampling, I’m still not crazy about mango taste in my beer. But that’s me. And I can tell when mango is present and done nicely. Somehow it invites more involved sipping. Goes down nicely, and yes, it’s an unusual taste to me, but I find myself getting behind it.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jun 2019
at 03:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster during Illinois Craft Beer Week. Sugary for sure, not so much a banana as maybe bananas foster. Taste is pretty sweet, but hopped up enough to counteract. Color is hazy yellow fading to white. A bit of sodium from the water, I think. The final result, kind of like a banana flavored Moon Pie. The vanilla bow s a good job of offsetting any a banana boat bomb.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2019
at 03:47