Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pour is a dark brown with a average white head. Aroma is all candi sugar at first then comes a little spice. Flavor is some brown sugar, Belgain yeast and spice. A little fruityness is left on the tounge after the swallow. Decent dubbel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pour is a cloudy blonde with a large white head. Aroma is nice with lots of banana and wheat. I can smell it w/o even bringing the glas to my nose. Flavor is your typicall hefe with some clove, banana and wheat but all really stand out on their own. A well made hefe and my fav from this brewer so far.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pour is an orange with a large white head. Aroma was of citrus hops and some pale malt. Flavor is again a nice blast of fresh citrus hops and a soild malty backbone. I thought this would have been more of an english style IPA with the use of European hops but this is as piney/grapefruity then an American IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pour is a brown with a large tan head. Aroma is earthy and malty with a little hops in the backround. Flavor is again starts out eathy malts then comes a little nuttyness from the chestnuts. Decent beer but nothing to get excited about.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
A few glasses from a growler filled 6 days previous at the brewery tasting room in St Louis, Missouri. Pour is copper, mahogany, ruby with a tan head that leave behind some nice lacing. Aroma is smoked meat, fruit sweetness, and a malt base. The smoke is not over powering, very soft and approachable, nicely balanced with the malt. The taste is more smoked meat than the nose, and the sweetness picks up some as well. Nice balance, certainly a smoke beer, but not overpoweringly so. Palate is medium bodied, sweetness lingers in the finish. Nice smoke beer. Like with all of the UCBC beers I had, clean and expertly made.
theisti (5540) reviewed Hopfen from Urban Chestnut Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
A few glasses from a growler filled 6 days previous at the brewery tasting room in St Louis, Missouri. Pour is copper orange, with a bit of an off white head. Initial aroma is lemon pineapple citrus hops, along with straw and earthiness from the Hallertau, followed by some cereal malt. Fresh nose, really unique - don’t remember ever smelling anything near this. The very different hop varieties are having a bit of a battle, and each sniff seems different. The taste is lemon pineapple citrus, quite bitter, along with the herbal and earthiness. Very difficult taste to describe, really having a hard time describing. Palate is medium, a bit of a lingering bitterness. I really appreciated the uniqueness of this beer, but really was happy with just a single glass.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
A few glasses from a growler filled 6 days previous at the brewery tasting room in St Louis, Missouri. Pour is golden, nice soft haze with a smallish white head. Nice unfiltered look. Aroma is toasty cracker mildly sweet malt, along with fresh earthy hops. Super clean and balanced. Taste is the nose, toasted malt with the straw and earth hops, perfectly balanced really soft, delicate and fresh tasting. The mild sweetness if present, but even less than in the nose. Palate is medium to light bodied, unfiltered mouth feel, mineral finish, dry and crisp finish. Super easy drinking beer, right up my alley.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz footed pilsner draft at the brewery tasting room in St Louis, Missouri. Pour is a hazed green yellow with a nice fizzy white head. Aroma is wheat grain along with light lemon tartness - pretty muted nose, fresh and delicate. Taste is light bodied grainy wheat with just touch of the lemon tartness. Certainly on the less tart side of my understanding if the Berlinner Weisse style, but really superbly crisp and clean. Palate is the highlight of the beer, just stupid drinkable. Crisp, dry, light tartness begs for additional sips. The lemon picks up as it warms. Really tasty stuff.