Quick3Beers (3145) reviewed Day Sail from Hog Island Beer Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours a slightly hazy amber from a can. Nice floral aroma, someone else noted honey, I guess I'm picking up on that. I'm actually a fan of the big bitterness, a return to IPAs. I actually think this is one of the better session IPAs I've had. Good beer.
Jow (8309) reviewed Outermost IPA from Hog Island Beer Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Chatham Inn with wonderful meal. Clear burnt orange. Nose is citrus and some pine. Tastes of grapefruits, bready, pepper. Fairly bitter. Ok non descript
cheap (9533) reviewed Far Out Stout from Hog Island Beer Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bog pounder can from teh source. A very nice pour in the glass, big almost black a tan moose head. Aroma of decent stout, slightly burned on the olfactory. Stronger than anticipated. A little bitter up front like its been over roasted er sumthin. Nicely thick brew. At over 6% this stuff lacks any of that volatile impy stout feel, yet almost distressful. Gets a little more difficult in the middle. Old slightly damp wet previously burned feeling aged campfire wood in the end. Quite a personality.
cheap (9533) reviewed Outermost IPA from Hog Island Beer Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1
So, I got this pounder $4 can at the source before I drove home. Its a big green mean looking can like a bog brutal anchor coated with algae. Its big and its green and it has the impact like any other brutal IPA. Bitter blasting bold brutal boastful bossy bitchy bastard bacchanalian back breaker bad ass baffling baleful baneful bankrupt barbed barefaced barmy batty bawdy beastly bedlamite bellicose belligerent bent bereaved berserk besetting bestially biased bighead big-mouthed bigot. What else can be said of the 1 kilo thousand times 10 to the 100drth IPA out there? There, you have it: Beer need not be bitter. The best are without the hop preservative effects.
cheap (9533) reviewed White Shark Wheat from Hog Island Beer Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Pounder can for $4 at the source. Pour is somewhat muddy looking hefe. Smell just barely has the aroma of a hefe. Taste at first is a little rude, then it calms down a little. Still, it lacks any real hefe attributes but it does not really come across like a bitter wheat ale. Not sure what to think of this brew. It does seem to have this processed feel to it that leaves an odd bitterness in the back of your throat after each slug. Some creamy carbonation on the palate. A little uncivilized for me. Yea, the odd bitter feeling in the back of the throat hangs for a while after the finish.
cheap (9533) reviewed Day Sail from Hog Island Beer Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2
Pounder $4 can from the source in orleans on cape cod. Popping the can produces a permeating IPA nose without any BO. Pour is fairly clear with a big bad head. Taste is somewhat bitter IPA. Yes, a little bit of that veggie feel, as with many session IPA, but its not bad. Certainly IPA in nature but a little less bitter than expected for a real IPA. Yes, sometimes comes across more like a stronger personalty APA rather than an IPA. I'm not sure about why they make a bitter brew lower in alky, but what - ever. Its a beer and so be it but, I could appreciate a bitter brew with more alky and I guess some like it bitter without the alky. I just never developed an appreciation for purposefully bitter beer, oh well. I think it may be a manly thing, but that seems a little sexist, I'm not woke and will be cancelled. Overall its just another run of the mill IPA, there are a billion of them out there. And, they pretty much all tast the same. So be it. IPA is one of those style I just can't figger out but they make a great tik.
bb (18428) reviewed Outermost IPA from Hog Island Beer Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Rich amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and light pine flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and light pine linger with light caramel.
bb (18428) reviewed Day Sail from Hog Island Beer Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Golden beer with a whitish head. Grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit flavor with light pine. Medium bodied. Grapefruit and light pine linger.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours a black from a tap with a coffee-with-cream colored head. Aroma is malty, molasses and maybe some leather. Flavor is more subdued, a bit of chocolate, slightly sweet but finishes with some dryness. Pretty good beer.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Outermost IPA from Hog Island Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Can just says "6-3" on the bottom. Drunk 8/16/17.
Deep bronze-copper color. Lightly hazy. Beige head is small but stable at cover.
Spicy greenery in the nose with some juicy pineapple opens things up. Malts add sweet honey and a touch of bread crust on the end. No resin. Big juicy fruit characteristics with more warming. Pretty nice. Medium strength of aroma overall, but no alcohol or flaw. Maybe tending rather malty but at least it's almost all base malt character.
In the mouth it's shockingly dry, not malty and quite under-malted, actually, with a thin, washed-out texture. Very spicy hops with vague bitterness and weird soap and odd blandness persisting on the end. Very abrupt finish, with not much even through the middle. Eventually, astringency builds from husky malt and hop bitterness.
Why you would ever enter the Boston market (any market really) via Wachussett (where this is contract brewed/canned) is well beyond me. I'm sure they got a great deal on the contract but at what cost to your reputation when people try this crap. Or maybe their own beer is this bad too? Who knows.