Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Clear dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is light chocolate, medium body, lower carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is medium light chocolate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Mexicana IPA in a twist off bottle. Hoping for a smoother mexican style lager approach, but its not. Darker colored like a hazy barley wine. Taste is big dull IPA slap in the face. Smell is same. Bitter and astringent, pretty much like most ubiquitous IPA, terribly on style leaning towards American strong ale in nature. Finish is a long bitter astringent, almost cloying ending. Why has a mouth puckering hop preservative become a desired taste? A mouth coating medicinal & rude strong ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Twist off cap bottle, rare find. Big & black, interesting foamy head. Stuffy nose. Spiced black beer. Not sure if this is really a porter or if its one of those veggie spiced brews, you know, Spice/Herb/Vegetable. Yes, dark beer spirit with a spiced macro feel about it. Odd, medicinal at times near the finish. Certainly is a beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
A rare beer, from a bottle. Friendly porter aroma. Yes, quite strong black beery impact. Almost an imperial stout but that smoked sensation is ever present. Fairly flat. Somewhat dull stout impressions. Tho this would not be considered tart beer, there is a linger side of wildness to it. In the big swigs I do detect some cutting carbonation in thar. Better than expected.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Light brown without much head. Thinnish, light choc notes and a fair bit of vanilla as well. Kind of thin and light.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
New Beer Distributors, NYC bottle ($2.50): pours reddish with an off-white head. Aroma is mostly pine and caramel; I am really not getting too much agave out of this. Taste is fairly bitter; goes into the finish and aftertaste. Very minimal sweetness. Not too complex. My least favorite of this brewery’s beers so far.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
New Beer Distributors, NYC tap: Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma is very light amoke and a good bit of burnt sugar plus roast. Taste is not really sweet or bitter. Somewhere in between of each. Body is pleasant and very smooth. Tasty and a bit different.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
New Beer Distributors, NYC bottle: I think that this is being contract brewed by Cerveceria Mexicana in Tecate now... Anyway, it pours a dark muddy brown with a quickly dissipating head that leaves no lacing. Aroma is milk chocolate... and I guess horchata, although who really knows. Taste is pretty sweet. Body is pretty carbonated. Pretty simple, but pleasant enough. I suppose I will try the other beers that they got.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A golden reddish amber ipa with a thin light mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with smooth floral hops, light maple, very nice. In mouth, a nice caramel malt with good floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, very nice and surprising. Bottle at Crisanta.