stevoj (18327) reviewed No Use for Smugglers from Brick & Feather Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
16oz can from Tavour. Hazy orange golden color, thick, fluffy white head, floaties. Light fruity, citrus aroma. Taste brings in citrus peel astringency, grapefruit. Feels thick in body, but thin on the palate. Feels like something's missing.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
Can at home. Never heard of these fellas. Felt guilty drinking a NY beer while root for Celts over Nets in game one so quickly switched to Mass brew. Dirty golden and foamy white head. Nose is yeasty and some citrus. Tastes of dough, orange, bubblegum, some herbs. Chewy palate. Not all that crisp or zippy for style. Still pleasant though
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a slightly hazy copper-orange, with minimal head. Aroma has some citrus and tropical fruit elements. Flavor is citrus, with some hop-pine bitterness in the finish. Nothing too distinguished here.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours a hazy, yellow mustard color, with mid-sized head. Aroma of rotting tropical fruit, some dankness and sour washcloth. Flavor has tropical fruit, notably pineapple, some citrus, and lot of pine/spruce hop bitterness. Good, but a little overbalanced in favor of the bitterness.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours a hazy, orange-yellow, with smallish head. Aromas of citrus and tropical fruit. Flavors follow, with a light sweetness, some grass, and just a touch of hop-pine bitterness at the finish. Well-balanced and very drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tap at Dive Bar, Worcester. Color is slightly cloudy orange with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, hops and malts. Simple but nice drinkability. Little bit of on the malty APA side.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed A Spider Salutation from Brick & Feather Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours clear blonde, small white head. Smell is bit malty,mild spicy by the yeast. Taste is bit spiced by the yeast, mild maltyness. Not very dry. Ok impression of a saison.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/27/17.
Soupy, though not chunky, bright apricot and canteloupe orange with a small, white head showing moderately-low to low retention.
Very orange creamsicle-like in the nose, with layers of various citrus in between pineapple, guava and mango. Low spiciness, little/no pine and displaying some very lightly caramel-tinged honey-like malt notes that further sweeten things. For the strongest beer abv-wise of the four I had while there, this might seem like the softest/mildest. A touch of dough and mild ester with no alcohol or flaw noted. Quite juicy.
Juicy again in the mouth with light pine, grapefruit and spicy, almost herbal bitterness creating a reasonable amount of balance. Malts are pillowy-soft and the carbonation is low but reasonably engaging. Dough, biscuit, honey and tropical fruits linger lone with just a touch of piney resin on the very end. No alcohol or flaw. I actually would prefer it have more carbonation, to disperse some of the sweet, doughy and juicy notes more evenly, but I guess not everyone prefers that. Melon building up somewhat with a touch of sourdough character as you get near the end.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed In Absentia from Brick & Feather Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/27/17.
Glowing canteloupe-to-copper-golden with a small but firm white head and a heavy haziness.
Pure, delightful, unadulterated juice in the nose showing the "new classic" notes of melon, mango, papaya and pineapple over a base of lightly grainy, biscuit and cracker malts that impart a bit of dainty honey-like sweetness. For all the PNW hops in here, they’ve sure done one hell of a job of keeping this stuff intensely juicy and mostly free of heavy citrus and pine. Almost no resin and what citrus there is helps to undercut the juiciness lightly and keeps it quite bright.
Juicy and soft in the mouth with light biscuit and honey from the malt and a high attenuation and tight carbonation. A bit of rustic graininess, lots of melon and light pine lingering. Clean and with no alcohol. Lovely. Brick and Feather certainly is the real deal.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/27/17.
Heavily hazy, though not soupy, bronze-copper-golden with a medium-to-small, off-white head atop showing moderate to moderately-low retention.
Thoroughly spicy nose really highlighting the cascade. It’s like a big whiff of marmalade with juicy grapefruit and finally more pine and lemon on the finish, thanks to the Simcoe. A bit intense for me, and the cracker-like malt character, very sparse and dry itself only seems to intensify, or maybe more accurately, exacerbate things. Light scallion and a touch of catty character, but otherwise clean and still fairly low on resin despite all of the pine and grapefruit. No alcohol.
Spicy and fairly bitter, much more so than your typical NE IPA. Light green onion, grapefruit, pineapple and tons of orange rind and lemon. The malts are indeed very dry, crackery and while still reasonably deep/supple, provide almost zero sweetness for balance. As well, it’s a touch on the watery/loose side. Still, it’s interesting and good to see they’re not just pumping out the same old ubiquitous tropical fruit juice bomb IPA.