 5000 (2409), Hardened Liver, Washington, USA
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 10/20 |
Sep 2, 2007 Bottle: Fiery amber, very clear, moderate dishwater like head, falls quickly, sparce lacing. After a while, no head, no bubbles, no lacing... what gives? This ain’t no old brew neither. Moving on... Meaty malt oriented nose. Pomegranate? Slight phenols, alcohol, and flora on the nose. Seems sickly sweet. Subtle pomegrante on the tongue. Malty, definitely malty, with a warming alcohol tinge. Fruit aspect is light. More of an Imperial Amber, if you could even call it that. Moderate body and mouthfeel. Has a greenish aspect to it, like its not yet ready to really enjoy. Finish is a little thin. Also seems a bit astringent. This is much a Fruit Beer as it is an Imperial Stout. Not all that fruity to me. I don’t really know what to make of this one. Some aspects of perfumed hairspray linger. Ugh... if you are going to have a He’Brew I would stick with the Lenny’s R.I.P.A.
kp (8396), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Sep 1, 2007 Updated: Jun 2, 2008Name: Origin Pomegranate Ale
Date: 04/01/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip
clear orange, fine off white head, touch of lace, sweet malt and tart fruit aroma with light earthy hops, fruity flavor with a nice tartness, balanced with some earthy bitterness, brewed with pomegranate, a bit too dry with the tart fruit but otherwise a nice complex character, interesting but the least favorate of the special series
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4
SledgeJr (2961), Omaha, Nebraska, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 23, 2007 In the bottle from Beertopia. Pours a deep gold with a small off white head. This beer has a fruity cotton candy-like aroma. This is very sweet at first, sort of tasting like Juicy Juice Very Berry. Then there’s a strong bitterness that washes over the tongue. The bitter flavor that you get if you chew fruit seeds too long. The fruitiness is then easily overwhelmed by the dense malt thickness and the cyanide-like bitterness. Then, toward the end of the beer at warming, everything reverses and the fruitiness returns and the bitterness becomes subdued.
kitschy (201), Nebraska, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 23, 2007 In the bottle. amber color, slight head. flavor starts out like a hopped amber, then gets fruitier and fruitier - is that cherries? tangerine? pear? no, it’s pomegranate. with nice finishing hops. and good malt balance. An intriguing, tasty beer.
bbbrew (183), Washington DC, USA
| 2.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 4/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Aug 19, 2007 bottle. golden dark amber pour with funky head. lingering head. bready sweet nose. definately alcohol and tart.
JFURYCAT (791), East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 19, 2007 The fruit flavor here seems kind of sour and bittersweet (like an amber) with some malt to it. There seems to be some yeasty fruit which I’m not sure I find overly appealing even though Muhammad told me to drink this beer (the funny label). The aftertaste has a nice warm feel to it. It has some dryness and a decent sippable texture with some carbonation.
JAF737300 (797), Tampa, Florida, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 13, 2007 This beer poured hazy rust. The nose showed malt and some light pomergrantite. The malt showed sweeter on the palate and drove the pomergranite off the flavor a bit. It finsished with a sense of smoothness.
xav33 (313), Midland, MI, Michigan, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Aug 11, 2007 HeBrew Origin Pomegranate Ale
22 oz bomber
Moderate pour in a shaker
Poured a clear orange amber, with a peculiar slight red brightness to it, with a medium white fizzy mostly diminishing head.
Smelt of strong caramel and pomegranate.
Taste was upfront sweet caramel malt and pomegranate with a moderate bitter grassy hops and toasted grain followed by a strong bitter pomegranate flesh and toasted grain on an average to long bitter pomegranate finish.
Palate was medium bodied, creamy, lively carbonated and strongly astringent.
Overall, this beer captures the pomegranate taste very well, but it still somehow doesn’t work. Sometimes it feels too sweet from the strong caramel malt backbone, and sometimes it feels too bitter and a bit tart from the pomegranate. It just doesn’t work for me. Very interesting and unique though!
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