Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Pour is a dark black with a small tan head. Aroma is decent enought with some roasted malts with a bit of coffee in there. Flavor is some coffee but then the sourness hits you. Why is every beer from the brewer so sour? Nothing to look for here. Hands down the worst craft brewery in America.
thegreenrooster (7275) reviewed Pilsner from Atwater Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Pour is a golden with a large whtie head. Aroma has some slight bready malts with a grassy hop. Flavor is again some malt and grass but the finish is way too sour. Something went wrong here at the end. There are much better out there.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Pilsner from Atwater Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a clear medium golden color with a large white head. The aroma was spicy floral hops and sour malts. The flavor was dryish, tangy and malty with a dry crisp floral and fruity hop presence. The finish was medium length and dry. Decent.
cheap (9533) reviewed Teufel from Atwater Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
On draught. At the Bocktown, pleasant place! Atwater tuefl S6L4F2T408: Nice darker clear color. Decent tan head. Smell is beery fresh, rather fruity at times. Fairly strong alky bite on the taste buds. Almost like strong ale, or possibly even barley wine tripel status. Decent carbonation. Finish is medicinal linger, for a while anyway.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Dirty Blonde from Atwater Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Draught and bottled samples at Sunset Grill, Summer 2008.
It’s stuff like this that gives blonde ales a bad name. Dirty, not in the sense that the brewers were looking for, but in the sense of unclean, with glaring brewing flaws (diacetyl, metal, a dirty yeast blandness...) and almost no malt character. Tastes like you’re chewing on a handful of dirt and wheat. Some light citrus seems out of place on the end and the beer just tastes stale, cardboard-like and nothing remotely refreshing-like. Extremely poor aroma strength, maybe a touch of vanillin and old, crusty bread. Watery mouthfeel, though somewhat ameliorated by the wheat in the grist. Horribly boring yeast lacking any character.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Salvation IPA from Atwater Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle at Sunset Grill, mid 2008
Colorful, copper-orange body is topped by a small, but somewhat stable white head. Obvious, straightforward cascade hopping in the nose lends notes of marmalade and freshly cut oranges. Sweet, honey-like malts and notes of caramel butt in on the end but nothing really lingers, instead being replaced by a dry, cardboard-like blandness/nuttiness. Alcohol notes even creep in somewhat, spoiling the hop display.
Too sweet, as usual from this brewery, in flavor, with candied oranges and nearly cloying vanilla emerging as it warms and breathes. Sticky-sweet mouthfeel becomes lightly watery on the finish. Some coarse pine resin-like hop notes hang on the end, lending a light sourness.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Vanilla Java Porter from Atwater Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottles and draught at Sunset Grill mid-2008.
Filtered/force carbonated and I’m not sure whether they pasteurize or not. Regardless, these are some truly washed-out, lifeless beers that are no doubt sterile filtered and full of insipidly sweet, artificial flavors and underfermented sugars. Tastes like candy in a bottle. Sweeter than breckenridge vanilla porter and though it advertises java, it’s certainly not a particularly dainty flavor. The vanilla flavor sits heavily on the palate, mixing in with the chocolatey-sweet sugars and coffee is just an afterthought, adding nothing more than sourness. Little to no roastiness, poor balance, watery mouthfeel. They’ve taken the Stoney Creek Vanilla Porter and made it worse.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Vanilla Java Porter from Atwater Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle. Thick brown-black color. Sweet chocolate aroma. Sweet and medium bodied, with a slight sour quality to it. Very drinkable and smooth. The roasted malt, vanilla, and coffee flavors all. An interesting Black Ale, but not exactly world class stuff.
DSG (25977) reviewed Salvation IPA from Atwater Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle,. hazy orange with a huge but ugly-shaped off-white head - I have to wait a few minutes until I can even drink anything other than foam. Aroma of piney hops and caramel. Bitter hoppy flavor with some malty (maybe a bit grainy) sweetness and some pine needles. Light to medium-bodied.
DSG (25977) reviewed Vanilla Java Porter from Atwater Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Re-rate 5/4/11: Bottle. Beer of the month club. Black-colored with a small bubbly beige head. Aroma of vanilla, milk chocolate and coffee notes. Sweetish flavor roasty graininess, vegetal hints, vanilla, coffee, a bit of lactic sourness and a drier finish. Light-medium-bodied. Not great, but drinkable unlike last time. 6/3/5/3/11=2.8
Bottle. Beautiful black-colored beer with a magnificent big, stable, beige head. Aroma of roasted coffee, vanilla, some infected yeast acidity notes. Flavor starts sweet and a bit chocolatey with hints of vanilla and very unpleasant sourness, mostly towards the finish. Light-bodied. If it wasn’t for the nasty infection this would probably be a decent beer. I wouldn’t have rated it if I didn’t see in other ratings the infection seems to be a consistent thing. 5/5/3/2/7=2.2