Quick3Beers (3144) reviewed Commonwealth from Troy City Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a hazy orange yellow from a can. Citrusy aroma, leaning lemon, and flavor. Okay beer.
CLW (17000) reviewed Year Two from Troy City Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
500 ml bottle purchased at the brewery. The flavor is layered: chocolate, roasted grain, coffee and the slightest earthy hop note in the finish. Tons of malt flavor with a lightly lingering molasses like hint. The mouth feeling body are appropriate for the style. Classic representation.
tfontana (7512) reviewed Battleship from Troy City Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can pour from trade with AirForceHops--thanks, Chris! It's a lightly hazy, bright golden yellow with mild sparkle, finger-plus width white foamy head with good retention and spotty lacing. Aroma is dank, fruit and milder citrus. Taste is dank, mix of sweet and tart fruit, mild biscuit and bitterness. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with thin, smooth, frothy texture, soft carbonation and crisp, finish dominated by mild bitterness. Overall, OK but a bit too dank and bitter to be a refreshing summer lager.
CLW (17000) reviewed Battleship from Troy City Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
16 oz. can. Aroma is mild grain with a light herbal hint. Texture is crisp with a very low bitterness. Overall, for the style it’s very respectable. Easy drinking summer hopped lager.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Maple Croft Maple Porter from Troy City Brewing 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Undated can drunk 6/17/21.
Dark mahogany with some deep garnet highlights. Seems like good clarity. Dark, ashy-beige head shows moderate retention.
Maple candy and milk chocolate in the nose suggest quite a bit of sweetness. Dark/roasted malts/barley are restrained but it seems fairly balanced. A bit of earthiness, light herbal hops at most and clean, minimal yeast character with light raisin, plum and fig on the finish. No alcohol noted.
Sweet, not too much so, with pretty good attenuation and plentiful maple and light roast. I like that it relies on the actual maltiness and maple for flavor rather than copious amounts of burnt/coffee flavor. Kind of like a brown porter of old. Vanilla, caramel, earth and light vegetal flavors linger on the finish with light-to-moderate plum/raisin acidity to balance. Fairly soft, malty texture with moderately engaging, low carbonation. No alcohol or flaw noted.
tfontana (7512) reviewed 7 Hillz from Troy City Brewing 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can pour (no date stamp) from Julio's Liquors. Appearance is opaque orange juice with nice sparkle at the edges of the glass, 2-finger width white foamy head with good retention and no lacing. Aroma is strong sweet/tart citrus (vaguely St. Joseph's aspirin) over malt base and a whiff of wet socks. Taste is strong, slightly astringent and tart citrus over bready malt base (and almost a late mild bubblegum?). Mouthfeel is medium side of light-to-medium bodied with thick, frothy texture, average-to-lively carbonation and crisp, fairly dry finish as taste. Overall, the tart/bubblegum/wet socks quality is either intentional and highly unusual for the style (in a good way?) or is indicative of age. Who knows? Intriguing to say the least.