Your Most Controversial Review

Talk Discussion in 'BeerAdvocate Talk' started by TastyAdventure, Jan 26, 2013.

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  1. TastyAdventure

    TastyAdventure Initiate (0) Nov 13, 2012 Kentucky

    What is your one review of a beer that is way off the mark of others' opinions on this site? What beer, when going to its page to review, were you floored by when you saw the incredibly high or low overall score after tasting yourself?


    Mine is Founders Breakfast Stout. Feel free to bash me for my opinion on it, but I'm more interested in hearing your own Controversial reviews on your beer.

    Here's mine:

    Founders Breakfast Stout. Bottle. 8.3%

    3.19/5 rDev -29.3%
    look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

    I was ready for this one. As famous as it is, I tried to manage my expectations and not hold the bar too high. I believe I did so, but was still very disappointed.

    Although it's not my favorite style, I have had a number of stouts, including Old Rasputin, which is in my 10 favorite beers.

    Poured this from a bottle into a pint glass.

    Here we go, the controversial opinion begins:

    A - brown one-and-half finger head, solid black. Looks like a stout.

    S - stale coffee. maybe a coffee flavored pastry.

    T - Day-old strong coffee, but not quite as bitter as coffee. A bit one-noted on the taste to be honest. I searched and searched for other flavors. Absolutely no chocolate flavor like the bottle says, a mild breadiness that might be reminiscent of a bland oatmeal and coffee breakfast. You wouldn't know there's any alcohol in here.

    M - Low carbonation, too low. Feels like coffee. Leaves a stickyness on the lips and back of throat like oatmeal does.

    Overall - Disappointment. This beer is very one-noted. Coffee, that's mainly all I taste.

    Serving type: bottle
     
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  2. RobertColianni

    RobertColianni Pooh-Bah (1,705) Nov 4, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    Your taste buds suck. Breakfast Stout is chocolate heavy. It's not even dry cocoa, it's creamy dutching chocolate with a vanilla and coffee bean finish.
     
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  3. kevanb

    kevanb Pooh-Bah (2,569) Apr 4, 2011 Illinois
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    Surly Sÿx

    2.4/5 rDev -38%
    look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
     
  4. BigCheese

    BigCheese Initiate (0) Jul 4, 2009 Massachusetts

    10 fidy is the worst RIS I've had, its not bad per se, but ive liked every other big stout I've had more. many like it. Its a good thing its a free country and we can buy what we want.
     
  5. tewaris

    tewaris Initiate (0) Jul 14, 2009 Minnesota

    No one pays, or should pay, any attention to any of my reviews for them to be "controversial". I am an anonymous person on the internet.
     
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  6. Rutager

    Rutager Initiate (0) Oct 18, 2010 Canada (BC)

    Your comment sucks. Taste is subjective.
     
  7. RobertColianni

    RobertColianni Pooh-Bah (1,705) Nov 4, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    That's an excuse for people with poor sense of taste/scent.
     
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  8. Rutager

    Rutager Initiate (0) Oct 18, 2010 Canada (BC)

    Wrong. It's a fact.
     
  9. texasdrugaddict

    texasdrugaddict Initiate (0) Oct 11, 2012 New Mexico

    I haven't done alot of reviews here but I find Ten Fidy overrated and that tends to disagree with alot of people. I think its ok but not worth the price. I had a 12 and a 10 and didn't think its was any better with age on it. I think Rasputin is better for the money. But Ten is not a bad beer by any means just not a great as people tend to think it is.


    Edit: I didn't read the thread or I would have just quote Big Cheese and said "This"
     
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  10. Chaney

    Chaney Pooh-Bah (1,957) Apr 20, 2006 District of Columbia
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    I had a couple of upset people contact me on here recently from a community that housed a brand spanking new brewery that they were rallying behind because I wrote: "This stout was as thin as Richard Simmons at a Bikram yoga retreat." Needless to say, I didn't make any friends on here from that small Midwestern town.
     
  11. TastyAdventure

    TastyAdventure Initiate (0) Nov 13, 2012 Kentucky

    if that's your attitude then why even bother posting on here? or there? or reading this?
     
  12. kdb150

    kdb150 Initiate (0) Mar 8, 2012 Pennsylvania

    Palate Wrecker. Simply the most unbalanced, unpleasant, and downright undrinkable beer I've had in a very long time. Do people realize that drinking a supremely bitter beer doesn't make them tough?
     
  13. Shagator

    Shagator Initiate (0) Mar 17, 2012 Kentucky

    my biggest one would have to be with two hearted. The first time I tried it I thought it was the worst thing I ever tasted. At the time I was a Miller fan and hot had my eyes opened. I have tried two hearted on several occasions since, i am still not a big fan. It could be because I am more of a double.imperial fan or its because I hold a grudge against a beer that is probably really good
     
  14. Shagator

    Shagator Initiate (0) Mar 17, 2012 Kentucky

  15. Grohnke

    Grohnke Initiate (0) Sep 15, 2009 Illinois

    Oh this thread will last long.
     
  16. CommanderOfAwesome

    CommanderOfAwesome Initiate (0) Aug 30, 2012 California

    Mine is Hop Crisis by 2st amendment. Terrible beer.
     
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  17. Grohnke

    Grohnke Initiate (0) Sep 15, 2009 Illinois

    My biggest deviation is -21% for Maui's Coconut porter. Beer was just not good. Lovely nose, terrible palate. Would like to try it again, as I there's always a possibility it was a bad can/ batch/old/etc
     
  18. RobertColianni

    RobertColianni Pooh-Bah (1,705) Nov 4, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    I disagree completely. The only thing subjective about taste is preference. While one may not be a fan of a certain flavor or may prefer more or less extremes of that flavor, there is no denying recipe or potency of an ingredient as perfected by the creator. Dutching chocolate is the overwhelming frontrunner within this beer, and while coffee follows, it follows for a reason; it is not dominant. Vanilla is an ingredient within the Dutching process. He's wrong for saying dry, stale coffee is the only contained flavor and I guarantee he will not own up to not being able to taste milk chocolate when consuming it.
     
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  19. BedetheVenerable

    BedetheVenerable Initiate (0) Sep 5, 2008 Missouri

    In terms of ones that don't make sense to me (i.e. my highest rating per rDev is O'Douls which, in my opinion, doesn't taste any worse than most macro-lagers so, for what it is, is pretty decent) is the Lagavulin cask JW Lees Vintage. I thought that stuff. Was. VILE. Which is funny, as I love single-malt Scotch and English barleywines...just didn't quite work for me.
     
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