Beer Ratings: Most Recent

Barncat Artisan Ales Cambridge, Ontario

500ml (thx, Brian C.!) @ Matt's house. Appearance: a bit hazy copper with a white head. Aroma: fruity, a bit boozy, bold, some light fruity acidity. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: ok.

Reuben's Brews Seattle, Washington

650ml bottle @ Matt's. Pour an opaque dark brown colour with a thin beige head. Nose is predominantly boozy, with plenty of woody notes. Flavour is also boozy but presents the amburana rather nicely. Medium bodied, mild carbonation, and a decent sweetness.

Tusket Falls Brewing Company Tusket, Nova Scotia

Dark brown, with a fudgey note, and a toasty accent. There's a molasses accent, veering towards a cassareep sort of character, a bit nutty. Pretty good, lightish body for its size, but overall I'll say this is quite balanced, and with good complexity.

Tusket Falls Brewing Company Tusket, Nova Scotia

473mL can. Pours black with thin beige head. Aroma is earthy, lots of toasted malts. Flavour has some good toasty malts, a bit of chocolate; generally very earthy. Nice overall, but not the most complex.

Reuben's Brews Seattle, Washington

22oz @ Matt's (thx, dude!) house. Appearance: dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: nicely balanced spices from amburana barrel, some sweetness, and a bit of booziness. Taste: along the same lines, a bit on the boozy side. Overall: interesting, nice balance between bourbon and amburana.

Tusket Falls Brewing Company Tusket, Nova Scotia

473mL can, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out lots of dry coffee, earthiness, and toasted notes. Flavour is very roasty, with intense roasted malt, plenty of hops, earthiness, and a touch of dark fruits. Earthy, roasty, and hoppy in good balance; a bit harsh, but solid enough.

Reuben's Brews Seattle, Washington

750mL bottle. Pours black with minimal head. Aroma has some toasted malts, a bit of liquor and wood; a bit bitter. Flavour has a decent balance bourbon, chocolate, and amburana. A bit harsh, but the flavour is still good.

Taneum Creek Brewing Cle Elum, WA 98922, Washington

Bottle at share. Clear golden pour, with a nice high foamy white head. Aroma is grassy, biscuity and a touch of yeast. Yeasty notes increase in the taste,soft bready malts behind, grassy, floral. So light on the palate.

Reuben's Brews Seattle, Washington

22 oz. bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of amburana wood, light bourbon, and a touch of dark sugars. Flavour is somewhat boozy, with boozy bourbon, light amburana, and some dark sugars. Lightly boozy, nicely woody finish. Not the most refined but pleasant enough.

Fremont Brewing Company Seattle, Washington

Bottle at share. Dark brown pour, muddy, small frothy beige head. Sweet aroma malty, molasses, vanilla. Taste is sweet, more vanilla, chocolate, barrel notes. Hefty feel.

Bishop Nick Brewery Braintree, Essex

Cask, 1/2 pint at The Richmal Crompton (JDW), Bromley. 23.4.24 Appearance is clear amber with a cream head. Mouthfeel is medium. Aroma of malts with fruity hops. Taste is fruity hops, mixed malts, slightly sweet. Dry finish.

Reuben's Brews Seattle, Washington

2023 bottle. Dark brown, not much head. Fairly rich chocolate, big thick rich, some amburana. Good balance. Soft, mellow amburana, chocolate, nice spiciness, and full body.

WeldWerks Brewing Company Greeley, Colorado

500ml bottle from Tavour. Black, oily pour, kin of dark tan head, Bourbon prominrnt in the aroma, chocolate, toffee, vanilla. Taste brings bourbon warmth, with a sweet, roasty malt base, notes of vasnilla and walnuts.

Rogue Ales Newport, Oregon

Aroma is a mix of sweet citrus and bitter citrus peel. The flavor is fruit, big citrus/citrus peel , malts and a spicy hop/assuming slightly sweet rose hops finish.

Barncat Artisan Ales Cambridge, Ontario

500mL bottle, pours a hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is full of maple syrup, toffee, and some brown sugar. Flavour has toffee, brown sugar, and a touch of maple syrup. A bit thin-boded, but has a nice malt character. Good stuff.