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Pinball (15907) reviewed Super Nova from Parish Brewing Company 5 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Exotic fruity juicy hoppy aroma, also some more traditional herbal hoppy notes, but quite sweet and exotic fruity. Flavor is bitter hoppy, good pine into the aftertaste, grapefruit, sweet ripe exotic fruits, hoppy fruity sweet and bitter, i personally prefer sweet malty and bitter if it has to be sweet. ripe exotic fruits isn't my favoriute. good palate and good neutral malts with a good body. The beer is in fact all very good, just not my kind of flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
dark brown to black, baeautiful brown head with whiter areas.
aroma is roasted malts, fainter smoked malts, wood, charred wood, hard roasted malts. not sweet at all but still velvety , well blended and non-burnt. super fine aroma. also finer notes similar to espresso coffee, dark chocolate.
flavor is sweet from the bourbon, roasted malts, oak, licorice, faint coffee like note, end is roasted malty and slightly charred woody, far far end is dark caramelly, more wood, hints of bourbon.
pretty solid flavor. A great imp. porter and not at all pastry - old scool, and well done at that.
Pinball (15907) reviewed Cactus from Tilted Barn Brewery 5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
aroma is not that strong again, but really spot on classic west coast ipa, pine dominates, then some grapefruit, and then a crisp flavored, full bodied malty base. From aroma, though, i get the feel it might be a bit watery.
flavor is pine and grapefruit. licorice (which is a bit odd) neutral malts, the end is reasonably hopped, but the licorice flavor lingers and i wonder if it is meant to be or an accident. need to read the text on the can i guess.
Pinball (15907) reviewed Live For You from Track Brewing Co. 5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
strong pine, lots of grapefruit in the hoppy aroma, great aroma.
Flavor is much more exotic fruity than aroma. exotic fruits like pineapple and peaches dominate, grapefruit and herbal pine notes. Normally i don't like exotic fruity beers that are too sweet, and this one is too sweet, but they managed to amp up the hop bitterness in a flavorful way so that it actually works with the exotic fruits, the beer tastes fine, even when served at room temperature as my sample is right now.
Pinball has a new beer style achievement
Level 18 for Stout - Imperial ticks with a total of 800 ticks of this sub style.
Parabola (2025) from Firestone Walker Brewing was the one that did it!
5 months ago
Pinball (15907) reviewed Parabola (2025) from Firestone Walker Brewing 5 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, maybe some notes from bourbon. something resembling honey. The aroma is super well composed and blended and it is very hard to pick up the individual details. Aroma is very good.
flavor is salty, woody, charred woody, alcohol bite, roasted malts, hard roasted malts, almost but not quite a burnt caramel note. flavor is a lot less rounded than aroma, and have this dark caramelly/ burnt caramelly note that i don't like at all in my imp stouts. apart from that, the imp stout is fantastic and perhaps the burnt caramel will go away after a few years, i'm having this very fresh - vintage 2025 in sep 2025.
Pinball (15907) reviewed Wildflower - IPA from Ebeltoft Gårdbryggeri 5 months ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
pretty nice aroma, malty, flowery hoppy, also some pine.
some exotic fruits as it warms up. have a amateurish homebrew-ish kind of feel, the aroma.
flavor is bittersweet, more bitter than sweet, but flowery perhaps oranges pulp kind of sweet and then malts and herbal hops bitterness. the bitterness is of the slightly mouldy not really very refreshing kind.
Pinball (15907) reviewed Sonoma AF from Track Brewing Co. 5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
slightly hazy yellow, large creamy white head.
sweet malty bordering grassy , flowery hoppy, bitter hoppy aroma. sweet and crisp at the same time. Not much flavor, crisp mineral waterish note, faint flowery hops, faint pine like hops. it reminds me of the more flavorless spanish non-alc. beers. much closer to water than to IPA.
If you need refreshment and not alcohol it will suit that purpose very well, and it tastes a lot better than a can of sparkling water -but don't expect a light or nonalc fullbodied ipa - you'll be a bit dissapointed.
Pinball has a new beer style achievement
Level 18 for Stout - Imperial ticks with a total of 800 ticks of this sub style.
Bourbon County Brand Stout - Sir Isaac's (2022) from Goose Island Beer Company was the one that did it!
5 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Aroma is dark dried fruity, bordering slightly souris or tart, figs, alc. bite, chocolate, roasted malts.Flavor is as advertised chocolate cookies, or perhaps dry chocolate cake, but the figs are much more subtle than in the aroma, the overall feel is sweet, not dark fruity, tastes like a good dessert chocolate cake with frosting and all. bit sweet. very pastry stoutish, but fairly taste although quite sweet. good dark chocolate, there is some faint dark dried fruits just before the ending. quite complex.