Subsidiaries
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
S6L4F3T7O16+Shamans porter; on tap at the Bocktown; nice place. Nice dark creamy pour, has a pleasant head. Good mild roasty aroma. Very well behaved on the taste buds. Easy to like. Fun to get along with. Especially friendly and nifty. Overall good experience. First-rate appetizing finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Apr 2009
at 18:55
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Smells mildly like a dark beer, roasty and a tad sweet. There is also a slight soap perfume in there too. Initial impression is that it hides its alky content well for 6.5%. No head on the pour, it looks flat even tho it does have some hints of creamy carbonation on the tongue. Has gunk on the bottom of the bottle. Each slug is followed by a delayed cherry background reaction, it remains hidden until the finish takes place. Hide and seek cherry. Woody leather in there too. I liked this experience, normally I don’t care for these kinds of beers but I found this quite enjoyable. Finish is quite nice, no hints of alky is easily detected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2009
at 13:54
4.4/10
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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.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2009
at 22:09
4.9/10
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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.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2009
at 21:18
5.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2009
at 16:02
4.9/10
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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.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2009
at 08:15
4/10
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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.
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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2009
at 13:09
5.5/10
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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.
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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2009
at 13:05
4.6/10
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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.
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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2009
at 12:59
6.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2009
at 18:44