Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Slightly hazy deep amber/copper coloured body with an absolutely huge and undrinkable tan head. Aroma of english hops, nice caramel malt, some metal and a solid amount of fruits-grapes, apricots and peaches. Medium-bodied; Mild malty taste with very minimal hops and a decent fruity flavour. Aftertaste very bland and showing a small amount of the character. Overall, a pretty bad offering - very mild tasting and the head and carbonation detract from the beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Merchant’s in Dearborn, Michigan on 12-September-2005.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
on tap-pours a light brown head and black with red color. Aroma is dark malt-coffee/roasty. Taste is sweet dark malt-coffee/roasty/some caramel. Some hops bitterness. Mild carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
on tap-pours a tan head and mahogany color. Aroma is nutty, medium/dark malt. Taste is nutty, medium/dark malt-peat/ashy, faint earthy hops. Malty.
jcwattsrugger (14801) reviewed Summer Brew from Motor City Brewing Works 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
on tap-pours a white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is herbal/honey, sweet grain. Taste is light body, herbal/honey, sweet grain. Easy. Mild.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
on tap-pours a rich thin head that laces and hazy amber/copper color. Aroma is medium malt-roasty/peat. Taste is medium/dark malt-chicory/molasses/roasty/peat, secondary earthy hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
on tap-pours a thin white head and cloudy/hazy yellow color. Aroma is sweet light malt, secondary light spicy hops. Taste is sweet light malt, secondary light spicy/herbal/lemon hops. OK/mild carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
on tap-pours a thin creamy off white head and cloudy yellow color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel, hint of hops. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel, secondary hops (some seem to be mostly English).
Silphium (4309) reviewed Honey Porter from Motor City Brewing Works 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Deep mostly opaque brown body with reddish highlights at the edges, thin buff head. Aroma of molasses, roasted malts, and chocolate, reminiscent of cocoa puffs, with very light honey. Light, bitter cocoa puffs body with roasted malts, watery, paired with subtle thin, sweet honey tones. Weak, watery finish. Motor City Brewing Works is currently putting out the worst bottled craft beer produced in the state. It’s great to see local beer in bottles, but these aren’t going to cut it against tough competition in local beer stores.
Silphium (4309) reviewed Summer Brew from Motor City Brewing Works 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Hazy tangerine-colored body with cakey yeast sediments, thin off-white head. Aroma of bready yeast, nuts, cereals, and light tart notes. Cerealy, nutty body, and watered down, characteristic of all of this brewer’s bottled beers, with light wet hay and citrusy wheat notes that play second fiddle. Sourish tang in the finish with wet socks and muddled esters. Thin and simply not good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Tap at HDG - cloudy medium red pour, with a lasting ring of lace - aroma of roasted nuts, vanilla, a bit of earthy, musty character - thin and quite dry - nutty character dominates, with some herbal notes, vanilla, minerals - loaded with oxidation, metallic character, and various other flaws that just pile on top of one another.