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Timber Hog
Picaroons Traditional Ales
- From:
- Picaroons Traditional Ales
- New Brunswick, Canada
- Style:
- Irish Dry Stout
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 12.57%
- Reviews:
- 18
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 03, 2017
- Added:
- May 14, 2009
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 6
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Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)
3.63/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Coal black with small head. Light roasted malt nose. Smooth coffee malt body with dry notes. Light carbonation. There are better stouts out there.
Nov 03, 2017Reviewed by Grogsky from Canada ()
3.93/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Nice stout for those looking to expand into that style. Great colour, although the head doesn't last. Nice coffee and chocolate notes. Almost like drinking a lager, not as smooth as guinness, but not as carbonated as a standard lager/ale.
Apr 03, 2016Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.74/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
500ml bottle, the latest offering from this brewery to make it west to Alberta, and just in time for St. Paddy's Day!
This beer pours a rather solid black abyss, with subtle red cola basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and fairly creamy brown head, which leaves some spewing volcano effluvia lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet milk chocolate, roasted caramel malt, singed dark sugars, a bit of slightly off milkiness, faint black orchard fruit, and plain earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, bitter cocoa powder, day-old cafe-au-lait, muddled berry-like dark fruity notes, a hint of free-range wet ashiness, and more understated (but they're there) leafy, weedy, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is nice and active in its gently probing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and perhaps a bit too clammy to be deemed particularly smooth. It finishes off-dry, but not by too much - the roast and the hops keeping a stern but loving eye on the proceedings.
Overall, a generally well-made version of a dry Irish stout, with the roast maybe held back for the sweetness-craving North American palate. Easy to drink, but man, and maybe it's just me, but I could really go for some salty bread or lamb stew right now!
Mar 01, 2016This beer pours a rather solid black abyss, with subtle red cola basal edges, and three fingers of puffy, rocky, and fairly creamy brown head, which leaves some spewing volcano effluvia lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet milk chocolate, roasted caramel malt, singed dark sugars, a bit of slightly off milkiness, faint black orchard fruit, and plain earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, bitter cocoa powder, day-old cafe-au-lait, muddled berry-like dark fruity notes, a hint of free-range wet ashiness, and more understated (but they're there) leafy, weedy, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is nice and active in its gently probing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and perhaps a bit too clammy to be deemed particularly smooth. It finishes off-dry, but not by too much - the roast and the hops keeping a stern but loving eye on the proceedings.
Overall, a generally well-made version of a dry Irish stout, with the roast maybe held back for the sweetness-craving North American palate. Easy to drink, but man, and maybe it's just me, but I could really go for some salty bread or lamb stew right now!
Reviewed by souvenirs from Canada (BC)
3.96/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
A: Inky cola colour, with just a little bit of head.
S: Molasses and burnt sugar. Appealing.
T: Roasted grains, coffee, dark bitter chocolate.
F: Almost but not quite crisp.
This is a nice stout.
Aug 06, 2015S: Molasses and burnt sugar. Appealing.
T: Roasted grains, coffee, dark bitter chocolate.
F: Almost but not quite crisp.
This is a nice stout.
Reviewed by DaveBar from Canada (ON)
4.25/5 rDev +11.3%
4.25/5 rDev +11.3%
Got in a trade from Curtis. Good 'ol Curtis. Served at 4deg C in a draught glass
A- 4.5- Nice dark and cream head good. Dark brown head lasts and lasts
S- 4.25 Malty and smoky.
T- 4.25- Very refined stout in the background.
M- 3.75- Dry and tart. Coco.
O 4.21- This is the real rating. Good chocolate and so on but a bit light for me
Food Pairing
This pretty good stout went well with..... every thing I had at the Mandarin last night.
Enjoy
Sep 27, 2014A- 4.5- Nice dark and cream head good. Dark brown head lasts and lasts
S- 4.25 Malty and smoky.
T- 4.25- Very refined stout in the background.
M- 3.75- Dry and tart. Coco.
O 4.21- This is the real rating. Good chocolate and so on but a bit light for me
Food Pairing
This pretty good stout went well with..... every thing I had at the Mandarin last night.
Enjoy
Reviewed by johnnnniee from New Hampshire
3.97/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Bottle from the source.
Pours a solid dark brown with ruby highlights at the edges and a decent sized tan head that slowly dissipates to a ring on top. Aromas of dark and milk chocolate with lots of creamed coffee and bits of caramel and toffee to round it out. The flavor is rich chocolate and caramel with roasted creamed coffee and some light sugar and toffee to round it out. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation, and a creamy silky mouthfeel. I was impressed with this brew, its a very nice stout. Maybe a bit more body than an Irish dry should have, but I enjoyed the heck out of it.
Jul 17, 2014Pours a solid dark brown with ruby highlights at the edges and a decent sized tan head that slowly dissipates to a ring on top. Aromas of dark and milk chocolate with lots of creamed coffee and bits of caramel and toffee to round it out. The flavor is rich chocolate and caramel with roasted creamed coffee and some light sugar and toffee to round it out. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation, and a creamy silky mouthfeel. I was impressed with this brew, its a very nice stout. Maybe a bit more body than an Irish dry should have, but I enjoyed the heck out of it.
Reviewed by byronic from Canada (ON)
3.86/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.86/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Pours pitch black with a couple fingers worth of a mocha head. Decent retention leaving little puffy clouds on this dark brew.
Smells like a nice strong cup of coffee with a hint of sweetness.
Roasted grains and coffee, a nice touch of sweet appears as it warms.
Great mouthfeel all be it fairly thin, medium carbonation with a nice dry finish.
Jun 16, 2014Smells like a nice strong cup of coffee with a hint of sweetness.
Roasted grains and coffee, a nice touch of sweet appears as it warms.
Great mouthfeel all be it fairly thin, medium carbonation with a nice dry finish.
Timber Hog from Picaroons Traditional Ales
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
47 ratings
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