Terrapin Side Project Gamma Ray

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Barley Wine
Athens, Georgia USA

Bottle. Pours a brown body with a white head. Fruity citrus and passion fruit. A bit boozy warm and devoid of hop character. Plum and pear notes and some gummy bazooka gum ester types. Nice.

Bottle sampled on 10/25/08: Pours a hazy pale bronze golden with a wispy-lacing white head. Aroma of sweet wheaty caramel and doughy yeast. Starts with good sugary sweetness and malted wheat with a good bittering hop balance. Pretty true to style, but could use a little cellar time to mellow.

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of honey, light fruit, slight spice, slight alcohol, light wheat, light orange, and some grapes. Poured orange in color with a tiny off-white head that disappeared quickly but lasted around the edges. Cloudy. Lightly sparkling. Flavor is medium to heavily sweet. Tastes of honey, fruit, wheat, light hops, grapes, slight grains, slight vanilla, and a hint of spices. Medium body. Lightly grainy, lightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Light to medium sweet, fruity, honey finish is slightly dry. Lots of honey. 11%ABV is very well hidden.

bottle thanks to emacgee. poured gold with a white head. aroma was white grape, wheat, red wine, and honey. the only thing i could get out of the flavor was white wine and alcohol. i really enjoyed this one. i was different/interesting but good. would like to have another.

Bottle thanks to ericandersnavy. Pours a somewhat hazy gold with off-white head. Aroma of nice fruit, malt, very faint funk. Flavor is very interesting.....Wheat malt, fruit, semi sweet, grape, alcohol, signs of funk....Mouth feel is medium body with medium-high carbonation. Overall, a very enjoyable, interesting beer.....good shit..!

Pours a hazy bright orange color with a very very thin layer of bubbly white head that quickly dissapates. Aroma is sweet honey and a bit of orange and lemon. Flavor is a mix of a lot of fruits: oranges, pears, sour apples, and lemon with lots of sweet honey and a boozy undertone. Overall, very enjoyable.

Bottle. Little to no head poured on top of a slightly cloudy gold body. Nose is instant green olives and acetylhyde, with a pungent garlic and vinegar bite that is really, honestly hitting my gag reflex. Texture is thick and oily. Turns overtly sweet across the middle and increased into the finish, which is dominated by an aspartame and honey flavor. Sweet, sugary, oily olives and herbs throughout. Disgusting.

Pours a cloudy orange. Thin white head. Aroma of orange, honey and wheat. Taste of oranges and the honey masks the alcohol well. Little bit of a spicy after-taste. Didn’t taste the alcohol nearly as much as I expected. This is a pretty interesting brew - I like it and I am not usually big on anything with honey it.