Buoy Beer Company

Microbrewery in Astoria, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2013

Contact
1 8th St, Astoria, OR, 97103, United States
Description
Together we spend our days (and nights) making damn good beer, great food, and working hard to create a tremendous space and culture for our community to enjoy with us. And we’re proud of that.

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8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle, 2022 version: Pours muddy brown with a modest beige head. The nose is rich with bourbon barrel notes, some sweeter caramelized sugar notes and chocolate. Tastes sweet, balanced with a light earthy bit and is complimented by the barrel notes. Earthy, leathery, caramel, creme brulee, chocolate, bourbon.. lots of layers. Quite good.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Oct 2022 at 19:37

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
12oz can from Hops & Bottles. Dark, cloudy golden, fizzy head. Malty, bready aroma. Taste is sweet, malty. Full, creamy body. Light tingly finish. Solid.
Tried from Can on 11 Aug 2022 at 22:52

7.8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
12 oz from a six pack from the grocery store. Aroma has notes of cantaloupe, peach, flowers, orange. Pours hazy deep golden with a two+ finger cream white head with excellent retention. Taste is lightly to moderately bitter with some restrained malt sweetness. Standard, straightforward and solid NW IPA.
Tried from Can on 17 Apr 2022 at 02:36

5.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
On tap at 40 Taps, Pendleton. Clear deep golden thin fine white head. Plain light malts and subtle piney hop character that seem chemically and and a little juniper.
Tried from Draft on 22 Feb 2022 at 04:06

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Cask at the Great British Beer Festival 2016, day 2 - London. Pours clear gold with a frothy, white head. Bready malts in the nose, ripe oranges. Moderately sweet with more orange, rindy bitterness. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Resinous finish, juicy oranges. Good one.
Tried from Cask on 10 Aug 2021 at 21:23

7.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 5.5
Gold body with thick white head. Light grassy aroma. Restrained taste then it comes forward with a clean long hop finish. Light to medium body like it should be
Tried on 07 Aug 2021 at 05:08

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
From can to glass. Orange and slight pine. Hazy sunset orange. White head with moderate patterns. Orange and pine flavor.
Tried from Can on 25 Jul 2021 at 04:42

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Saaz hops and raw barley. A little mercury. Golden pour with good head. Crisp bitter end.
Tried on 17 May 2021 at 21:39

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Super clear copper and bronze coloured body with a thinnish tan head with a lot of small bubbles rising from the bottom, all leaving a small lace on the top. Aroma of light grassy and herbal hops with a big hit of fresh cut grass and some light grapefruit and piney notes with a touch of malts and a subtle dose of alcohol noticeable in the nose. Light-bodied; Sharp astringent metallic and grainy flavour at first with a big hit of grass and pine following right behind with a touch of flowers and subtle honey and a dash of grains as well, but not much else going on, especially at the end. Aftertaste shows a pretty good balance of malt and hops with a deep resinous bite, some fresh-cut grass and a very astringent and metallic note that ends fairly strongly. Overall, a decent enough IPA that shows more of an English Pale with less bitterness from the alpha acids [of the hops] and more from the malts and metallic flavour, but still nice to try given that I've never seen this one before. I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Trader Joe's in Bend, Oregon on 29-March-2021 for US$1,59 sampled in my hotel room here in Crescent City, California on 30-March-2021.
Tried from Can on 31 Mar 2021 at 00:27

8.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 7
Black body with tan head. Full malt and roast aroma. Malty taste, with roast and a bit of lagerness. Full malt finish
Tried on 06 Feb 2021 at 05:32