Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours clear amber color with off white head. Floral and citrus hop aromas with caramel. Sweet caramel flavor with pine and citrus. Medium body with average carbonation and a syrupy mouthfeel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours with a crystal clear fuller golden hued body with a foamy off-white head that lasts. Aromas are of grassy and dank hops, lightly citrusy, pine, grapefruit, resin, cohumulone. Flavors are of mildly sweet caramel malt, herbal, grassy citrusy and hoppy. Pretty dank and resiny. Medium bodied, fruity. Medium carbonation. Good, but I’d definitely take a fresh Double Jack over it.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Humboldt 500 BC from Humboldt Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a clear copper / bronze with a small off-white head. Nose brings out piney hops, quite a bit of resin, and sticky toffee malts. Flavour brings out piney hops, crackery malt (from crystal malt no doubt), and some slight floral notes. Good balance between the piney hops and crackery, bready malt, with a tinge of toffee-like sweetness. Easy to drink and well-balanced, though nothing extraordinary. Not on the level of Firestone Walker's other big beers, but still solidly made.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 6/4/2013. Pours hazy deep orange amber color with a 1-2 finger dense cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with some light streaming carbonation. Aromas of big grapefruit, orange zest, tangerine, lemon zest, pine, floral, grass, caramel, bread, toast, and floral earthiness. Very nice aromas with good complexity of citrus/pine hops and moderate malt balance; with good strength. Taste of grapefruit, tangerine, orange zest, lemon zest, floral, grass, pine, caramel, toast, bread, and floral earthiness. Fair amount of floral/pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, orange/lemon zest, floral, grass, pine, caramel, toast, and floral earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity of citrus hop flavors and moderate malt balance; with a moderately crisp malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a lightly creamy, crisp, and moderately sticky mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall, despite the age of the bottle, this was a very nice IPA. Nice complexity of hop flavors with moderate malt balance; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From a 12 oz bottle shared at home. Pours a hazy copper with an thick off white head. Fruity hop nose. Flavors of orange and grapefruit. Medium bodied, high carbonation, bitter finish.
Erzengel (18514) reviewed Black Xantus from Humboldt Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Rating from 2010: Tiefschwarze Farbe, malzig-röstmalzig-schwerer Geruch. Der Antrunk ist alkoholisch-röstmalzig-trocken mit angenehm verbrannt-röstmalziger Notw. Zum Hauptteil kommen schwarze Schookolade, Espresso, dunkle Trockenfrüchte hinzu, die alkoholische Note hält sich wärmend, auch noch im Nachgeschmack lange auf der Zunge. Zum Nachgeschmack hin taucht auch noch eine deutlich herbe Komponente auf, die sich wunderbar in das Gesamtbild einpasst. Der Nachgeschmack selber ist alkoholisch-röstmalzig mit ganz leichter, aber angenehmer Süße. Sehr lang anhaltend, toffe-verbrannter Kaffee, brauner Zucker. herrlich. → Ganz tolles Bier! Vielen Dank an kappldav. Mir persönlich wären aber ein paar % weniger lieber gewesen, die dem Bier etwas von seiner alkoholischen Schärfe genommen hätten, die gerade nach einem halben Glas noch deutlicher hervortritt, als am Anfang, und schon fast etwas zu stören vermag. Dafür gibt’s für dieses fast perfekte Bier aber Punktabzug!
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jcr (3164) reviewed Red Nectar from Humboldt Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 13
Bottle. Amber body with a frothy, off-white head. Aroma of toasted grain, caramel, resin, pine. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, moderate carbonation. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Taste of toasted malts, caramel and resin. Nice balance in the flavors.
_angst_ (8410) reviewed Black Xantus from Humboldt Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bomber courtesy of Kaj (non-RB). Pours very dark brown, almost black, with a frothy goldenish brown head that slowly dissipates while leaving a small trace on the glass. Smell is sweet, malty and tiny fruity with roasted malts, sweetened dark roast coffee, milk chocolate, vanilla fudge, bourbon, charred wood, moist soil, green peppers, alcohol, sweet liquorice candy and caramel. Taste is sweet, malty and tiny fruity with roasted malts, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, green pepper, black pepper corns, bourbon, charred wood vanilla fudge, hay, oatmeal cookies, caramel and alcohol. Mouthfeel is round, velvety, smooth and near full bodied. finish is tiny sweet and bitter with roasted malts, dark roast coffee, bourbon, bitter chocolate, charred wood, vanilla fudge and moist soil. Nice coffee stout!
Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Black Xantus from Humboldt Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
650 ml bottle. Pours black with almost no head. Aromas of sweet chocolate, sour black coffee, heavily roasted malts, and some spice. Rich flavors of chicory, dark fruit/figs, vanilla, sweet chocolate and light coffee. Excellent.
DSG (25977) reviewed Red Nectar from Humboldt Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at a tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Clear amber. Aroma of slightly stale hops, piney, "green" and a bit fruity. Flavor hasd a bit of sweetish malt, caramel and a bitter hoppy finish, a bit stale. Medium-bodied.