SaltyGrog (4618) reviewed French Kiss from Bullfrog Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Notes from June 2009 On tap at the brewpub. Poured into a 10-12oz stemmed short flute. Pours out cloudy & turbulent. Quite a few of the beers seems unsettled(I saw someone changing out kegs an hour before the place opened). The color was a rusty mud. Off-white wisp of head. Scents of melon, bark, musk & some light spicing. It smelled really good, & I was awaiting something that tasted equally as great. The aroma was the better of the two though, leading up to a good bit of disappointment. Earthy, just a sharp flash of malt right at the beginning, bright bitter greens, grainy wheat-ish texture, & then dry. Very dry middle to end. It tasted like the bottom completely fermented out. I didn't get much of anything pleasant after half a second from the start. No real farmhouse elements past the smell. That & I guess the color didn't correspond to what I was drinking. I would of felt better of it if it was a lighter amber I was looking at. I drank my serving & quickly went back to the chalkboard for something else. Everyone else there seemed to think it was okay, maybe something else was on my mind at the time. ...
SaltyGrog (4618) reviewed Roggen Roll from Bullfrog Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
Notes from June 2009 This is a Roggenbier as described on the chalkboard, but has a lot of hef-ish texture & phenols working. A dunkel with a ton of rye? Or a roggen with wheat? It's tasty, that's all that matters. Draft at the brewpub. Poured into a (maybe) half liter, stubbed weiss glass. My tender shaved off most of the head, so I got a pretty hearty pour to work on. I think it was $5. Great value on their staple beers. Body was a muddled, bland, crayon scribble on cardboard brown. Pretty froth building up on every shake shake of the wrist. Smell is big on sweeter anise & less on hostile clove. Pumpernickel & really ripe & bruised banana play nice too. I could sense the alcohol. Taste was carmelized malt up front, quite minerally, a jab of lemon tartness & subtler banana, all spice & some more forceful clove, bland chocolate, & a little dusty, black tea-ish bitterness. A nice crusty bread aftertaste really sealed the deal for me. One of the thickest initial mouthfeels I've ever encountered. Not heavy thick, just heavy in froth, grainy grit, & maybe some dryness to make sure I was completely devoted to this partnership. It thinned out once it started moving & getting warm, but I don't remember ever having to pull a beer out of a glass before. It took effort. That was my exercise for the day. :) Alcohol tasted & felt higher then stated(I guessed 6.5ish), but since I was corrected there, & still quite hungry, I went for another(& the previously stated growlers). We never got past ordering appetizers. :D
SaltyGrog (4618) reviewed Frambozen from Bullfrog Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Notes from October 2009 3.59/5 rDev -12.4% look: 3.5 - smell: 4.5 - taste: 3.5 - feel: 2 - overall: 3.5 A pallet-load of thanks & positive karma goes out to Avalon68, DrinknDrive, & even Mr. Doug McMinn himself for making the 3 hour drive there & back a little less hostile. It was my fault we left later then we wanted. Me & my lack of direction. Shared twice over with the some of the local guys & gals, some that were just a little too pregnant or overburdened to take the trip down with us. Tight cork. Each experience, slightly different. Tulip, snifter, slurping dregs directly from the bottle. Faded strawberry & cider vinegar color. First time settled, second stirred up a bit on the express train over. Thin, rusty, filmy head, but lots of agitation below. Smells of sour raspberries, dusty wheat, green apple, lemon, & just a little more sweat & musk then that. I didn't dig the intense carbonation. It made me work that much harder. Tart & semisweet. Raspberry jam & apple cider vinegar. Pitty fruit bitterness & a little tangy radish bite. Drying wood. Yeasty. Sadly, I didn't get any vanilla. I like vanilla. Thin body, harsh bubbles, very acidic. Biting. Not anywhere close enough to something like a Raspberry Tart, lambic, or any wild ale that I've had. Maybe something like a 70/30 mix of Liefman's Frambozen & champagne. Refreshing, but not what I thought I was paying $20 for.
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