Gary's Chocolate Orange
Central City Brewers + Distillers
- From:
- Central City Brewers + Distillers
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.8 | pDev: 1.58%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 10, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 21, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
I’m not a fan of chocolate oranges - I tried busting one up on my forehead way back in my 20s, but I digress... I must admit I was skeptical about this one, but it was nicely put together. The beer base is nicely complemented by the festive flavors. I wouldn’t seek this out but I’m glad I had the chance to try it.
Dec 01, 2017
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
330ml bottle, day 1 of 'The Great White Wonder Adventure Pack', a collaboration between Central City and Parallel 49 to provide a Beer Advent (I can say that, even if they can't) holiday experience.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some scattered and sudsy island group lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.
It smells of zingy orange zest, cocoa powder, gritty and grainy pale malt, and some leafy, herbal, and estery floral green hop bitters. The taste is chalky chocolate (sorry), dried orange peel, grainy and crackery cereal malt, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate lifting and separating frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess skulking in under cover of night. It finishes trending dry, the guest flavours petering out, and the hops swooping in to seal the deal.
Overall - this is an a-ok brew, however, while the chocolate orange character starts strong, it does not possess much staying power, unlike the real confection. Simple, easy to drink, and a nice attempt at an obvious Christmas novelty offering.
Dec 01, 2017This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some scattered and sudsy island group lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.
It smells of zingy orange zest, cocoa powder, gritty and grainy pale malt, and some leafy, herbal, and estery floral green hop bitters. The taste is chalky chocolate (sorry), dried orange peel, grainy and crackery cereal malt, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate lifting and separating frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess skulking in under cover of night. It finishes trending dry, the guest flavours petering out, and the hops swooping in to seal the deal.
Overall - this is an a-ok brew, however, while the chocolate orange character starts strong, it does not possess much staying power, unlike the real confection. Simple, easy to drink, and a nice attempt at an obvious Christmas novelty offering.
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