Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
12oz can from Grocery Outlet. Dark, clear brown body, off-white foamy head settles out to a thin ring. Peaty, malty aroma, earthy. Taste hits the mark, peaty, earthy, malty, tobacco. Smooth with some lingering maltiness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz can from Grocery Outlet. Dark brown pour, fizzy beige head. Aroma is brown sugar and cinnamon. Taste is cinnamon, pumpkin, nutmeg and ginger. Flavors aren't very bold.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
12oz can from Grocery Outlet Baker City. Near black pour , small beige head. Mellow roasty aroma and taste. Nice chocolaty bitterness with soem residual sweetness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap pours out amber topped with a sand head. Nose is citrus forward some pine and bread malts. Taste is more of the nice hop mix and a well balanced malt.
stevoj (18327) reviewed Green Cross IPA from Beer Valley Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Benchwarmers. Amber dolored pour, with a small off-white foamy head. Aroma is hops, citrusy floral, earthy. Taste balances the malts with some citrusy, floral hops. A bit old school IPA as you go deeper.
stevoj (18327) reviewed Mother Chukar from Beer Valley Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at Benchwarmers. Pale golden, clear, thin skin of head. Sweet malty aroma. Taste is more sweet malts. Creamy, smooth. Poundable.
Helt grei
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From Jun 2008
This pours a pitch black with a huge +2 finger head of tan foam.
The smell has notes of roasted malt, coffee, and hoppy bitterness.
The taste has big roasted malt, coffee, a touch of dark fruit, and a quite big hop profile. In fact, this is a *very* hoppy Imperial Stout. The roasted malt is big too. as is the coffee, but they are having a heck of a time competing with the hops. I think if the hops were calmed down to a lower presence, this would be quite the good example of the style but as is, the hops are just too much. Perhaps some aging would help but as this is my only bottle, I'll leave it to someone else to find out. ;^)
It has a nice thickish mouthfeel and the carbonation is light and right for the style. And it *is* one heck of a looker in the glass. Lots of lacing and the head retention is awesome. I'm very glad I got to try it but I probably won't seek it out again.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sampled at GTBF 2006: Jet black, creamy brown head. Fairly fruity nose. Big preserved fruit notes. Medium body, chewy thick (but not nasty like the slogan claims). Fruity aftertaste. Bought the awesome T-shirt.