gnoff (11188) reviewed Honkers Ale from Goose Island Beer Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from a friend that brought it home from the USA to Sweden.Brown color. Scent and taste is well balanced by malt and hops. Nice enough bitterness.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle (courtesy of Dalaamar): Poured a pitch-black color stout with a large dark brown color foamy head with minimal retention. Aroma of bourbon is quite powering as well as some chocolate and vanilla. Taste is a mix between some chocolate malt with hints of vanilla, coffee and oak. Bourbon presence is interesting but a bit too powerful for my liking since it brings too much alcohol, which is not something that I necessarily enjoy. Body is full and has a creamy texture, which I quite enjoy. Overall, this is a very interesting creation, which I’m glad, got a chance to try but I feel I would probably prefer the non-barrel aged version more. Also, this is more of a sipper then anything else and half a bottle would probably be enough for one session.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Dark black with near black brief head. Aroma of vanilla and licorice. Sweet with full body and clean mouthfeel with intense oak barrel flavour. The barrel character goes overboard and along with excessive alcohol it gets too intense and unbalanced. A lot of flavour, but not a lot of flavours.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from jimbowood. Amber-orange body, thin/medium off-white head. Big piney, biscuity aroma with abundant citrus (grapefruit) rind. Rindy body, citric and bitter, with pine needles completing the hops contribution. Big, biscuity, caramely hops. Rich and potent, but doesn’t break any new ground. That’s not a flaw, however.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Matilda from Goose Island Beer Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Gold-amber beer, clear; amberish tinted small head. Brett nose, sourish, Orval-like with the near imperceptible Orval sourishness abnormally enlarged; very fruity, citrus, etc. Sweet taste, bit malty, little sourishness in the taste. Sweet dough - like taste, pinch of salt included. Dry, restrained hops, orange zeste. And, I think, fatty acids. Light to medium bodied, rather dry, but at the same time the fatty acids/ phenolic (?) feel. A good try - but no match for the original, not in a long time!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Small dark-foxy head over utterly black beer. Blueberries, brambles, licorice, black mushrooms, earthy, vinous and woody nose - definitely Bourbon casks. Woody, alcoholic, "jap" (liquorice sweets) and vanilla; coffee at the end. I enjoy the main taste enormously, but the finish is just a tad too harsh-licorice for me. Black Chinese tea with lots of higher alcohols and quite some tannines. Rich, voluptuous, oily MF. A truly great barrel-aged stout. Another one, I agree, but, hey, keep them coming. Big thanks, DavidA.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Honkers Ale from Goose Island Beer Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Utobeer. Copper red colour with beige head and yeasty hop aroma. Quite good minerally malt, some caramel. Hoppy grapefruit/tangerine finish. They’ve more or less done what they wanted, an English bitter (bit of boiled sweet) with green US hops
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed IPA from Goose Island Beer Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Utobeer. Copper colour with thin white head. Nicely aromatic US hop aroma, with a cross between grapefruit and tea. Fine in mouth, bit lacking in structure and malt balance, but hey. Finish is unsurprisingly zingy and hoppy with grapefruit and more tea. I mean yeah, it’s nice. Difficult to get a character in a beer so richly hopped 3.6/5 Re-rate 11/07/07 Bottle at Brew Wharf, Borough. Lovely beer. Lovely grapefruit hop aroma and excellent bitterness on finish. Really impressed.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy light amber colour. Lightly fruity, a bit apricotty. Very candy sweet. Full body, a bit sticky. Decent flavour development but you really need to be in the mood for sweet.
JK (8181) reviewed Pere Jacques from Goose Island Beer Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Mine is opaque brown, but I make a point to get the sediment into the glass. The head does start very big but never completely fades, staying at maybe 1/4 inch of foam ringing the edge of the glass. They nailed the aroma, with malt and light fruit, but it is a little light in that regard. Good flavor. Loads of sweet malt and lighter fruit. Lightly spiced. Yeast shows up in the aftertaste along with some alcohol, which is hidden fairly well by the substantial malt body. Very smooth and easy to drink. Should age well. Well done. But a screw off cap?