Bay State Brewing Company
Microbrewery in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Established in 2012
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Taster pour on tap at Craft Brew Race, Worcester. Appearance is cloudy, murky, pulpy yellow juice bomb, no discernible sparkle, thin ring of white head. Aroma is mainly grapefruit, other fruit. Taste is not terribly strong flavor. What there is is on the grapefruit side, though dominant experience is dry bitterness. Palate is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with thick texture, average-to-lively carbonation with dry, crisp finish as taste. Overall, has the look and feel of an NEIPA but taste/bitter experience like a West Coast IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 May 2019
at 11:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can split at L6, thanks to Leighton, 20/08/18. Hazed golden orange with a decent off white covering. Nose is orange pith, pine needle, grass, airy malts, citric rinds, melon. Taste comprises grapefruit, orange peel, pine needle, toasted grains, grassy. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with balanced hop bitterness. Ok old skool kind of an offering.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Aug 2018
at 11:57
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can shared at Columbus tasting, 20/08/2018. Huge thanks to Leighton for this one. A clear bright orange coloured pour with a a halo go sticky white. Aroma is sweet toffee. Pine. Orange. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, orange rind, melon, toffee.. Palate is semi sweet, moderate, ok. Little sweet. Decent old school ipa.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Aug 2018
at 18:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
20th August 2018
Level 6 Bottleshare. Big thanks to Leighton for the can. Light haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, light and fairly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, little creamy sweetness. Trace of vanilla. Orange peel, slighty bitter. Smooth semi dry finish. Not bad.
Level 6 Bottleshare. Big thanks to Leighton for the can. Light haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, light and fairly dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Smooth malts, little creamy sweetness. Trace of vanilla. Orange peel, slighty bitter. Smooth semi dry finish. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2018
at 20:07
7/10
Tried
on 20 Aug 2018
at 20:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can shared in London - picked up in Boston. Pours mostly clear orange-gold with a foamy, white head. Nice overall, notes of peach, pithy citrus, bready pale malts, oranges, pine needles. Full bodied, lightly oily, with fine carbonation. Soft warmth in the finish, more pale bread, pine needles, peach, tangerine. Not bad overall.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Aug 2018
at 20:00
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from can dated 6/14/17 thanks Willrunforbeer copper gold with a thin white head. Aromas of floral melon and grassy notes. Taste is malty thin citrus with a lingering grassy bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2017
at 13:57
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
16 oz. can from a trade with Willrunforbeer. Date on the for pack holder read 6/14/17. Pours a hazy gold with an soapy head. Aroma shows me mostly grass, light tropical fruit and heavy sweet grain. Flavor displays mostly grassy hops with a huge sweet grain bill. The grain gives a heavy sweetness. The bitterness is low because of the massive amounts of malt. The 10 % isn’t noticed but not much can be with the huge sweetness.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Aug 2017
at 21:41
6/10
Tried
on 19 Aug 2017
at 20:17
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Poured into a pilsener glass, the appearance was a bright golden color with a decent transparency about it. Carbonation could be seen rising at a rapid pace to fill a finger’s worth of fizzy white head. Seemed to die off as quickly as a bat leaves hell. Ask me about the lace. Correct, no lace.
The aroma - uh....what aroma, how about stale crackers that smelled like they were dropped in cough syrup with some stale grassiness.
The flavor - ugh, do I have to proceed. Stinky driftwood, some turpentine and stale crackers dropped in cough syrup. I can’t mention what the aftertaste was like online as I think that would be illegal to say here. Finish, what finish, the hell if I know.
The feel, somewhere between light and medium bodied with no sessionability whatsoever. Carbonation actually felt fine - fairly low which is the only somewhat saving sort of grace about this beer. ABV didn’t feel as projected.
Overall, like I said in the other beer by these guys - oh never mind, but I did hear that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
The aroma - uh....what aroma, how about stale crackers that smelled like they were dropped in cough syrup with some stale grassiness.
The flavor - ugh, do I have to proceed. Stinky driftwood, some turpentine and stale crackers dropped in cough syrup. I can’t mention what the aftertaste was like online as I think that would be illegal to say here. Finish, what finish, the hell if I know.
The feel, somewhere between light and medium bodied with no sessionability whatsoever. Carbonation actually felt fine - fairly low which is the only somewhat saving sort of grace about this beer. ABV didn’t feel as projected.
Overall, like I said in the other beer by these guys - oh never mind, but I did hear that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2017
at 20:57