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The Bruery

Here's another older beer review, consumed March Madness 2023, but the bottle is much older than that.

Pours a dark golden color leaning into beige. Impressive head, 6/7", white, good retention. The aroma was a hearty amount of spice rack. To a lesser extent, the kumquat was giving those middle of the road tropical meets citrus meets stone fruit impressions. It ain't me babe, its the kumquats.

The taste was so typical of a Dogfish Head involvement, there's all your esoteric spices and shit almost no other brewer would put into a beer, and as usual, it doesn't really work that well beyond the "uniqueness" of it. I was surprised that the booziness was so evident too, I thought well, at least the Bruery is good at hiding the abv, but no, that didn't pan out here. I dunno, it wasn't very sweet, and that is usually how they mask that booziness. Here it binded with some excessive bitterness I could have done without.

I like Daft Punk, but even I have my limits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light color body, with a thick white fizzy head.
Taste has a yeasty taste to it. Nice kumquat flavor with a little clove.
Darn good beer.

 

 

 

 

Poured from a 750mL bottle into a flared glass at a DFH dinner at Rapture. From notes. Reviewed 16 January 2012.

A: A finger of stark white head fades fast. Lots of bubbles in this pale, clear ale. Decent lacing.

S: Tart kumquats, tripel-ly spices, and clean Belgian(?) yeast. Nope, apparently it's sake yeast. Interesting. Smells like a BSPA.

T: And it *tastes* like a BSPA. Very clean, subdued, grassy flavors. The spices aren't very spicy (i.e., not pepper). Light in taste for 8.2%. Vague clove, but the fruitiness is the star of the show -- light citrus; roundly pleasant.

M: The mouthfeel is excellent. Champagne-like, spritzy, light, refreshing, and, overall, delicate.

O: Good beer, but perhaps not exceptional. Recommended for lovers of odd yeasy and (BS)PAs.