Blasphemy
Ham's Restaurant & Brewhouse
- From:
- Ham's Restaurant & Brewhouse
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.49 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 12, 2009
- Added:
- Jan 12, 2009
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by cvstrickland from North Carolina
4.49/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
4.49/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
Just in time for Weyerbacher to retire their own "Blasphemy", our local hippie hero and brewmaster extraordinaire comes up with one of his own! An "India Pale Lager" he calls it...Yay! In the bland land of light-lager-loving college kids and wannabe hipsters, T.L., Ham's beer-genius in residence, has whipped us up a little hop bomb ... no, well, it's more of a "hop 'firecracker'" I guess...
The growler pours a clear, twinkling, shimmering polished copper body into my Kolsch stange and the resultant brew sports a two-finger thick head of creamy off-white foam atop. Fine, sticky webs of lacing cling to the glass, hash-marking the sip lines with predictable regularity.
The aroma is a mouth-watering, nearly eye-crossing perfume of pungent grapefruit laced with pine oil and orange blossom honey. If this brew came in bottles, I'd wear it as f*cking aftershave... and I'd get the chicks, too, dude! Well, maybe just the dirty little hopsuckers... anyway....
The taste is malty-crisp and softly, sweetly toasted, and is near-perfectly-accented with a dash of bitter citrus oil. Mild, mellow dry malt syrup lingers in the finish, deeply intertwined with grapefruit bitterness and sweetened by a spritz of mild grain and fresh, juicy orange. A dryish, tongue-coating maltiness lingers in the aftertaste, begging to be washed away by another sip.
The quaffable body is a perfect medium and the carbonation is nothing short of "spot-on". I had the privilege of sampling this brew straight from the fermenting tank and again in its gloriously-clear filter-finished form... and though I preferred the tank-brew, T.L.'s hop-forward lager-- his Blasphemy-- is simple, savory, and pretty damned wonderful.
Jan 12, 2009The growler pours a clear, twinkling, shimmering polished copper body into my Kolsch stange and the resultant brew sports a two-finger thick head of creamy off-white foam atop. Fine, sticky webs of lacing cling to the glass, hash-marking the sip lines with predictable regularity.
The aroma is a mouth-watering, nearly eye-crossing perfume of pungent grapefruit laced with pine oil and orange blossom honey. If this brew came in bottles, I'd wear it as f*cking aftershave... and I'd get the chicks, too, dude! Well, maybe just the dirty little hopsuckers... anyway....
The taste is malty-crisp and softly, sweetly toasted, and is near-perfectly-accented with a dash of bitter citrus oil. Mild, mellow dry malt syrup lingers in the finish, deeply intertwined with grapefruit bitterness and sweetened by a spritz of mild grain and fresh, juicy orange. A dryish, tongue-coating maltiness lingers in the aftertaste, begging to be washed away by another sip.
The quaffable body is a perfect medium and the carbonation is nothing short of "spot-on". I had the privilege of sampling this brew straight from the fermenting tank and again in its gloriously-clear filter-finished form... and though I preferred the tank-brew, T.L.'s hop-forward lager-- his Blasphemy-- is simple, savory, and pretty damned wonderful.
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