Scarlet Pimpernel
Great Waters Brewing
- From:
- Great Waters Brewing
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 3.04%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 14, 2005
- Added:
- Sep 14, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by tavernjef from Minnesota
4.07/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
4.07/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
On cask at the brewpub: No longer the red it once was as the beet juice has been removed from the finishing stages of the recipe from its earlier release. Now its a calming light gold hue with a clearish body. Solid capping of off-white froth sits on top with a bit of smoothed oatmealy texture. Lacing sticks in broken strings and spotting.
Aroma is a bit lemony and musty honeyish with a nice aromatic presence of chamomile and fresh spring flowers. A fairly strong bouquet here, perhaps a bit one sided with the incense-like demeanor but I like it.
Taste is sweet and tender with a nice crisp edge where some evident honey coated bread and candyish malting play within the chamomile and floral tones. Stays pretty flavorful with flowery spices and grasses, not the hot kind of spice, more like potpourri or candle-like incense. Chamomile is the biggest presence then I tend to think of jasmine, cinnamon, mint, and dried vegetable soup stock. Interesting play between the sweeter candy coated honey malt and its seasoning spices.
Feel is quick and clean with one very simple light body. Boldness or thickness isn't really meant to be its strong point, and that does tend to keep it from being, perhaps, a bit more entralling to the palate. I'm giving it a bit of a nudge up though for what it is and why its being offered as such. Trying to get the average drinker to try a cask/warm beer is difficult when its not a lighter styled beer. So this is their new lure. Not a bad idea nor a bad beer. I liked it and would and probably will have it again.
Oct 14, 2005Aroma is a bit lemony and musty honeyish with a nice aromatic presence of chamomile and fresh spring flowers. A fairly strong bouquet here, perhaps a bit one sided with the incense-like demeanor but I like it.
Taste is sweet and tender with a nice crisp edge where some evident honey coated bread and candyish malting play within the chamomile and floral tones. Stays pretty flavorful with flowery spices and grasses, not the hot kind of spice, more like potpourri or candle-like incense. Chamomile is the biggest presence then I tend to think of jasmine, cinnamon, mint, and dried vegetable soup stock. Interesting play between the sweeter candy coated honey malt and its seasoning spices.
Feel is quick and clean with one very simple light body. Boldness or thickness isn't really meant to be its strong point, and that does tend to keep it from being, perhaps, a bit more entralling to the palate. I'm giving it a bit of a nudge up though for what it is and why its being offered as such. Trying to get the average drinker to try a cask/warm beer is difficult when its not a lighter styled beer. So this is their new lure. Not a bad idea nor a bad beer. I liked it and would and probably will have it again.
Reviewed by ADR from Pennsylvania
3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On cask at the brewpub...
Reddish light amber color, settles as mildly hazy with a 1/2 inch head of very white color. Nice laces, very clingy with lots of collars down the glass. Aromas of a mostly perfumed floral impression. Lightish mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Honeyish flavors to begin, almost medicinal qualities, clove, unripe date, a bit of prune, herbal in many ways with a pleasant bitter edge on the back side. There's something cutting and different about this one, it definitely tunnels into the tastebuds. Its different, and I kind of like it, but have a feeling individual tastes might vary on this one.
Sep 14, 2005Reddish light amber color, settles as mildly hazy with a 1/2 inch head of very white color. Nice laces, very clingy with lots of collars down the glass. Aromas of a mostly perfumed floral impression. Lightish mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Honeyish flavors to begin, almost medicinal qualities, clove, unripe date, a bit of prune, herbal in many ways with a pleasant bitter edge on the back side. There's something cutting and different about this one, it definitely tunnels into the tastebuds. Its different, and I kind of like it, but have a feeling individual tastes might vary on this one.
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