Stoneface Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Newington,
New Hampshire,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Stoneface Brewing Company
Established in 2014
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours deep clear gold into a tulip. White head with good retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Tropical fruit and resin aromas. Sharp to medium bodied with sweet mango and pineapple upfront turning to resin before the lasting pith finish.
CosmicCharlie (9609) reviewed Blip from Stoneface Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours light gold into a tulip. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Tropical fruit and resin aromas. Medium bodied with grapefruit pith upfront turning to citrus marshmallows before the lasting resin finish. Pretty big for a session - coming in at almost 6 - I’m not sure why it’s called that style...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours deep brown into an English pint. Mocha head with excellent retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Dark chocolate and charred espresso aromas. Medium bodied with dark caramel and chocolate upfront turning to smoky espresso in the lasting finish. Solid.
tfontana (7150) reviewed Blip from Stoneface Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg pour at NH Brewfest. Appearance is yellow pour without sparkle with finger-width white foamy head and nice lacing. Aroma is dominant mild spruce over pine hops. Taste is light corn, mainly spruce/pine, moderately bitter. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with average texture, average to lively carbonation with bitter spruce finish. Overall, bitter hops is definitely the theme here but not in an obnoxious way and not so dominant that you don’t get flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Mix review of taster pour at NH Brewfest and can pour into nonic pint glass. Appearance is opaque black with trace sparkle at the sides of the glass, two-finger width foamy light brown head with poor retention and no lacing. Aroma is roasted malts and cocoa, cardboard. Taste is roasted malts, chocolate and light coffee. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin, smooth texture, soft carbonation but a little sting to the tip of the tongue and mostly sweet with light bitter balanced finish. Overall, a really enjoyable beer with nice roasted character and decent balance for the style.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Keg pour at NH Brewfest. Appearance is opaque black pour with small off-white head and fair lacing. Aroma is deeply roasted malt with hints of coffee and chocolate. Taste is same as aroma--more medium roasted sweet maltiness with mild coffee/chocolate. Palate is medium bodied with average to lively carbonation with pleasant bitter finish. Overall, this fires on all cylinders.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, batch 1, a generous gift from Airforcehops, drunk 10/15/15.
Medium-sized tan head slowly recedes to cover/ring, but is coaxed out again with every swirl. Clarity is medium and despite spending 4 months in the fridge, there’s very little that’s dropped out, thus showing it to be fairly-to-heavily filtered. Kind of disappointing, but oh well.
Vanilla, fresh and strong is very evident in the nose. Aside from that, plenty of baker’s chocolate, light tobacco and hints of coffee come through. No booziness in the nose initially, with only a bit coming through with warming and breathing. Overall, aroma-wise, the vanilla’s a bit too dominant, but it’s not over-hopped or a boozy mess, so there are pros and cons.
Flavor wise, I’m impressed at the texture for a seemingly filtered beer. Rich, soft, creamy/silky and sweet, but yet not cloying in the least. The vanilla, of course, takes a big role, while chocolate, light ashiness and again, rather minimal coffee (fine with me) are noted. Even with warming, the alcohol is never problematic and the carbonation is quite appropriate, being neither too fizzy/forced nor too low. So it’s confusing here, it certainly dosent have the traits of a heavily filtered beer (fizzy, loose carbonation, thin texture, sugary finish) but yet why was there nothing in the bottom of the bottle? While I didn’t get any acetaldehyde like Mike, there certainly is a bit of raw ethanol that emerges after it warms. Perhaps that’s what he’s getting? Could very well be green apple, though I don’t know how you’d pinpoint that through all of this malt, vanilla and coffee. Anyways, acetaldehyde and ethanal certainly do have a much larger chance of being exposed with heavier filtration, so that works with my theory.
Anyways, to wrap up yet another rambling, ridiculous review (but hey, why am I on this site if not to indulge myself in such behavior?), this was a good beer doing a lot of things right (good attenuation, no sharp booze, no resin, good texture) and a few things that could use some work (way too much vanilla, could use a touch more complexity, some light alcohol notes in places, maybe a touch too sweet). Seems like an unfiltered version of this that was thrown in to a barrel would be incredibly, incredibly good. That would help cut some of the sweetness, add a bit more complexity and take some of the focus off the vanilla. Sounds like that’s in the works, so consider me excited.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours bright gold into an English pint. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Resin and pine aromas. Soft to medium bodied with bread and hay upfront turning to pine and grapefruit in the lasting finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Whole Foods Nashua Slightly hazy light golden color frothy white head. Sweet bready pils with a solid hit of spicy floral hops to counter. Nice blond!
Bytemesis (16171) reviewed Hopulization from Stoneface Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to Neil. Pours hazy golden orange, huge off-white head, sticky lacing. Aroma is citrus, lemon, herbal, lemongrass notes. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter, nice and dany herbal citrus. Medium body, soft mouthfeel. Solid and a bit out of the ordinary.
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