Sticks & Stones
Hopworks Brewery
- From:
- Hopworks Brewery
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.36 | pDev: 17.56%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 30, 2015
- Added:
- Apr 22, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Moose90 from Washington
2.18/5 rDev -35.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.18/5 rDev -35.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Served On-Tap
A — Pours a deep and clear brown color, not black, actually very light for the style.
S — Smells slightly earthy and bitter, vegetal, herbal, little to no malt profile.
T — This beer tastes like patchouli oil smells, and not in a good way, like really bad, dirty, old, funky patchouli oil.
M — Light in body, thin, fleeting quick finish.
O — Never tasted a beer like this one, really off putting.
May 30, 2015A — Pours a deep and clear brown color, not black, actually very light for the style.
S — Smells slightly earthy and bitter, vegetal, herbal, little to no malt profile.
T — This beer tastes like patchouli oil smells, and not in a good way, like really bad, dirty, old, funky patchouli oil.
M — Light in body, thin, fleeting quick finish.
O — Never tasted a beer like this one, really off putting.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
16oz glass at Beer Revolution Oliver Square.
This beer appears a clear, dark ruby brown hue, with one skinny finger of loosely foamy and somewhat fizzy ecru head, which leaves some splattered snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.
It smells of bready, crackery pale malt, thin caramel, a minty leafiness, a bit of tart black orchard fruitiness, middling wood esters, and further sour herbal notes. The taste is rather tart and clipped off the start, some cooked lemon and white grapefruit rind mingling with a zippy black pepper spice, over a stunned crackery caramel malt, some raw mint hanging about, and a growing sharp grainy cedar woodiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its plainly pandering frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and not particularly smooth, what with that testy cigar box cedar character wafting about. It finishes dry, woody, and herbal - more like something that you'd smoke, instead of quaff.
Well, I can't complain that the aging in cedar had a less than engaging effect, as it certainly did. Woody, over a struggling varied maltiness, so much so that I'd have to call this disjointed - only if you're not totally into this exotic barrel treatment, that is.
May 26, 2015This beer appears a clear, dark ruby brown hue, with one skinny finger of loosely foamy and somewhat fizzy ecru head, which leaves some splattered snow rime lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.
It smells of bready, crackery pale malt, thin caramel, a minty leafiness, a bit of tart black orchard fruitiness, middling wood esters, and further sour herbal notes. The taste is rather tart and clipped off the start, some cooked lemon and white grapefruit rind mingling with a zippy black pepper spice, over a stunned crackery caramel malt, some raw mint hanging about, and a growing sharp grainy cedar woodiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its plainly pandering frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and not particularly smooth, what with that testy cigar box cedar character wafting about. It finishes dry, woody, and herbal - more like something that you'd smoke, instead of quaff.
Well, I can't complain that the aging in cedar had a less than engaging effect, as it certainly did. Woody, over a struggling varied maltiness, so much so that I'd have to call this disjointed - only if you're not totally into this exotic barrel treatment, that is.
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