8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from bottle dated 12 / 19 / 16 light golden orange with a nice white head. Aromas of tropical fruit nice citrusy notes floral tones and light caramel. Taste is smooth and juicy citrus honey malt and nice hop finish. Well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2017
at 20:42
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Sweet heather and hay aromas. Crisp with sweet bready hay and grass upfront turning to bitter hay in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2016
at 16:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
32 oz. Growler filled at the source. Aroma of grain / oats, tropical fruit, mellow citrus.
Flavor shows the oats, pineapple, citrus, celery. Mild grass. Blonde malts that finish with a dry texture. Well balanced with a moderate grassy bitterness. Very similar to another New England oat based IPA / pale ale I recently sampled. Medium-full-bodied, chewy. Very well made. Glad I like it because I have a ton of it to drink.
Flavor shows the oats, pineapple, citrus, celery. Mild grass. Blonde malts that finish with a dry texture. Well balanced with a moderate grassy bitterness. Very similar to another New England oat based IPA / pale ale I recently sampled. Medium-full-bodied, chewy. Very well made. Glad I like it because I have a ton of it to drink.
Tried
from Growler
on 29 Dec 2016
at 17:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
From a 500 ml bottle. Pours a clear deep cola brown with a tan head. Roasted grain aromas. Flavors of licorice and leather. Smooth and velvety. Light bitter roast finish,
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2016
at 16:51
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bourbon and rum barrel RIS from Stoneface amber cola with nice lacing and a thin mocha head. Aromas of bourbon rum alcohol caramel chocolate mild roasted malt. Taste is smooth rich very hot boozy nice mouthfeel caramel vanilla barrel notes. Cellar this for the win.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2016
at 18:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours hazy gold into a shaker. Bright white head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Tropical fruit aromas. Dry with mango and yeast upfront turning dry in the lasting resin finish.
Tried
on 24 Nov 2016
at 17:55
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours black into a snifter. Dark chocolate, bourbon and vanilla aromas. Mocha head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Dark hot chocolate and soy upfront turning to warm vanilla and bourbon before the lasting dry oaked espresso finish.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2016
at 13:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg pour into taster cup at NH Brewfest. Appearance is dark orange/light brown with small ring of white head, trace sparkle. Aroma is more restrained caramel than the Jack’s Abby brewed variant, with an "other" sweetness that was a little hard to place--perhaps the sweetness of inner tree bark or sap?, candied sugar?, mint? Taste is caramel with candied sugar/interesting sweetness--both sweet and light--with bubble gum, esters. Palate is medium bodied with average texture, soft-to-average carbonation with sweet finish like the taste. Overall, less richly sweet than the Jack’s Abby variant with more intricacy with the bubble gum and ester quality. Most interesting hard-to-pin-down sweetness. Very good and interesting.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Nov 2016
at 13:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
East Coast IPA shared with tderoeck, Ster and Erwin at tderoeck’s place. Very thick, frothy, dense, egg-white head, stable and leaving steady lacing over a hazy orange blonde beer with ochre-ish hue. Aroma of lime blossom, grapefruit peel, limoncello, ripe papaja, granadilla, strawberry, soggy sandwiches, lemon-scented hand soap, green banana. Lively fruitiness in the onset, passionfruit, starfruit and mango, some drier green banana too, medium carbo, slick and slightly soapy mouthfeel. Cereally, lightly bready malt middle supports an aromatic hop character, yielding lovely tropical fruit aromas retronasally (mango, pink grapefruit, lime, passionfruit) but providing only a mild, resinous, softly spicy bitterness allowing for a juicy finish. Another typical New England IPA, hazy and yeasty with as much sweet and tropical hop aroma as possible without the typical long-lasting, tonic water-like bitterness of the average West Coast IPA. Not the single most remarkable example in this substyle I had so far, but certainly very pleasant and enjoyable in all respects.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2016
at 16:35
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Stoneface IPA (by Stoneface Brewing Company):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
31/X/16 - 1pt. 9Fl. Oz. bottle @ home - Ster's first Ghentian tasting, BB: n/a, bottled: VIII/15/16 (2016-1260) Thanks to Bouvier for the bottle!
Clear orange beer, big solid creamy off-white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: floral, resinous, citrus, bit fruity, grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, floral touch, little soapy, slightly sweet, pineapple, lovely stuff. Aftertaste: bit resinous, fruity, floral touch, pretty bitter, lovely beer!
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
31/X/16 - 1pt. 9Fl. Oz. bottle @ home - Ster's first Ghentian tasting, BB: n/a, bottled: VIII/15/16 (2016-1260) Thanks to Bouvier for the bottle!
Clear orange beer, big solid creamy off-white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: floral, resinous, citrus, bit fruity, grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, floral touch, little soapy, slightly sweet, pineapple, lovely stuff. Aftertaste: bit resinous, fruity, floral touch, pretty bitter, lovely beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2016
at 16:11