Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from ericandersnavy. Pours dark gold with a multifinger foamy off-white head. Lots of hop aroma - seems to be mixed citrus/pine. Medium body with foamy carbonation. Flavor is fruity/floral hop over light malt. It is just excellent. Quite tasty.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed Blonde Ale from Twisted Pine Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from ericandersnavy. Pours hazy orange gold with a decent foamy white head. Aromas of mild stone fruit and maybe grassy hop. Near medium body with very foamy carbonation. Flavor hints of citrus, peach and mild citric hop. Finishes mildly bitter. One of the more pleasing Kolsch I can recall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from ericandersnavy. Pours light yellow with a three-finger foamy white head. Aroma is definitely raspberry. Near medium body with somewhat frothy carbonation. Flavor is papery wheat with a light raspberry overlay. Light drinkable beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle pours out a dark brown almost black topped with a tan head. Aroma is of day old coffee, rich roast malts, and some sweetness. Taste is much of the aroma more of the coffee (odd Espresso Stout the name of this brew) So coffee who would have guessed. The rich sweet malts made this one for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Fairly viscous black pour for a lower abv beer, with an impressive tan lace - nose of coffee and vanilla beans, even a bit of maple and anise, with some tail-end roast and bitterness - creamy, medium-bodied - decent coffee flavor is showcase, without a great deal of the bitterness and/or acidity associated with it - black malt character compliments this - a bit of sweet cream character, nuttiness, vanilla bean and bittersweet chocolate - nicely balanced for a coffee beer, with the flavor showcased well.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bomber - black pour, with a thick, sticky, dark tan lacing - semi-sweet, doughy aroma, with chocolate, vanilla, some char - creamy, medium-bodied - nice balance of sweetness, roast, and touches of black malt and hop bitterness - espresso, cocoa, vanilla beans - a bit of blueberry and other subtle fruity notes - hard to tell if this is lagered or not, but it is certainly smooth (real smooth, mike! - it’s got all sorts of flavors and notes!) - alcohol warmth in the finish, and some lingering coffee-like bitterness, as well as a bit of tobacco leaf - refreshingly understated for an imperial porter.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle thanks to swalden28. Pours with a hazy yellow body and a thin white head. Aroma of raspberry and honey with a bit of grassyness. Flavor is wheat and a lot of butter and raspberries. Not pleasant, tons of fake raspberry syrup. Fizzy and thin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle at a friends BBQ - meh, I’m not a fan of brown ales, and the honey in here isn’t really helping the cause - I guess the earthiness of the honey is there, but it doesn’t really work with the chocolate and roasted nut character of your typical brown ale - a bit of maple syrup - a bit too sweet, and lacking depth.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at a friend’s BBQ - a decent sweet stout that isn’t as heavy on the sweet as some others of the style - quite a bit of molasses, vanilla, and a light touch of coffee and black malt bitterness - creamy, mild carbonation - a bit of raisin - a touch of roast in the finish - a decent stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy gold, with a lot of fine floating particles - the aroma is almost all peppers (earthy, lightly vegetal), but with a faint whiff of tangy wheat - the flavor is much the same - it showcases the flavor of the peppers, but with a fraction of their heat - don’t get me wrong, there is some spice, but not nearly as much as some other hot pepper beers - aside from the pepper flavor, however, there is not that much going on - just faint notes of the wheat beer underneath - but I suppose that it the point - we want to highlight the flavor of the peppers, and this beer does that quite well - quite approachable for the style.