Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
16 ounce can. Hazy orange gold color. Frothy white head. Spotty lacing. Earthy malt aroma has yeasty notes. Hints of citrus and stone fruit. Flavor is bittersweet citrus and spicy malt. Tangy notes of orange, grapefruit and lemon. Some bitter hops on backend. Dry finish.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Pitter Pater from Cambridge Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
375mL 2023 bottle drunk 8/19/24. Clear, blonde-flaxen-golden. Large, frothy, well-retained, white head. Rustic grains with tons of stone fruit and light pepper. Some herbal hops and nothing crude from the yeast. Just honeyed grains, pepper and gentle, playful fruit for days. About as good or better than any Belgian golden ale I can remember having in quite a while. Just such a clean yeast character yet it's very aromatic. The wonder continues in the mouth with pepper and herbs from the hops and yeast, followed by bright fruity esters and balancing, honey-like malts that dry out perfectly on the finish. Clean, distinctly Belgian. No crude phenols/esters. No alcohol. A real delight. Gonna miss these guys....
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375 ml bottle shared by ClarkVV. Aroma is soft apple, mild wood, light yeast. Flavor is lightly sweet apple with a mild oak and booze finish. Nice!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375mL bottle drunk 8/3/24. Clear brass-applesauce. Thin white head. Juicy, spicy apple. Brandy adding depth and intensity. Attenuated, honey and white bread malts. Juicy almost. Nicely aged. Soft, rich, malty, juicy apple and spicy brandy. Pepper and malt drying out nicely with more juicy apple. Clean, no alcohol. The base is a robust, on the stronger, sharper side triple and the apple brandy doesn't mitigate that, but impressively, I don't think it exacerbates it either.
Aroma is Belgian yeast, apple, oak, caramel. Taste is nice and follows aroma with a nice lingering finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Brewery draught, 7/30/24. Lightly hazy blueberry served on ice....bit of pinkish head. Heavy black pepper, blueberry skin, seed and softer than expected gin character adding lots of fruit and moderate florals. No booze, very aromatic, very interesting. Wow that IS very intense, I see why they suggest icing it. Rich, intense, syrupy malts with strong bitterness from the gin. Blueberry throughout, somewhat lightening the mood. I like all the malt here, to stand up to the gin barrel aging. This would be pretty insane straight; definitely too much. As is, still pushing it on the gin, but it's endearing and highly flavorful.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Brewery draught, 7/30/24. Rich, coppery amber. Clear. Off-white head is sizeable, well-retained. Biscuity with a bit of caramel and toast. Scant mineral, low hop. Clean. Good base malt mixing with the medium malt creating a toffee and toast flavor. The malt is lovely, but I wouldn't hate some hop. There's basically none. Just a light, peppery bitterness as an afterthought. But it's clean and malty and dries out appropriately in the finish.
iphonephan (11575) reviewed Arquebus from Cambridge Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From a bottle vintage 2017. Pours a hazy cider with an off white head. Aromas of honey and toffee. Flavors are sweet brown sugar with some wine barrel grape notes in the finish. Seems to have aged well.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Brewery draught, 1/27/24. Dark, hazy, amber. No head. Yeah...there's the PX...salt, graphite, fig, date, vanilla, oak, golden raisin. WOW. So this is a beer?! Or is it an incredible Jerez???? My God. The lines have blurred. Addendum: Is this really a 5.0? No, probably not on a purely technical rating. It is a bit dominant in the sherry flavor and could probably use a pinch more dryness at points, with maybe a touch fuller body, even. But I'm giving it a 5.0 based mostly on innovation/uniqueness. And also, I frickin' LOVE sherry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
2016 brewery draught, 1/27/24. Lightly hazy/glassy, amber-honey. Minimal head. Big white grape. Spice, liquor, chalk. Very, very fruity. Soft, sweet, spicy, leathery, lots of strawberry skin. Excellent maltiness with almost a hint of tobacco. Lots of strawberry lingering. Juicy.