Dirty Ol' Town
Garrison Brewing Company
- From:
- Garrison Brewing Company
- Nova Scotia, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 3.89%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 28, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 03, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.79/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
341ml bottle - I suppose I'll have to cue up some Pogues for this review, and it's not even St. Patrick's Day!
This beer pours a clear, very dark orange-tinted brown colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky beige head, which leaves some wispy high altitude cloud pattern lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of lightly roasted caramel malt, some testy white grapefruit and orange citrus rind, a bit of dry chocolate, some free-range ashiness, and more leafy, piney, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser bready caramel sweetness, acrid grapefruit, lemon, and orange citrus pith, wet char, ethereal cocoa powder notes, and more earthy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-taunting frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and sort of smooth, as that dry roasted essence starts to tug at my tongue, more and more. It finishes barely off-dry, the base malt really flailing amongst the lingering citrus, pine, and char.
Overall, this is an appreciable version of the style, in that Garrison surely brought the blackening - lots of dry, roasted stuff going on here. Add to that a decent (dry-?) hoppy character, and we've got something that is very drinkable, and enjoyable, at least until my throat cinches up.
Feb 07, 2017This beer pours a clear, very dark orange-tinted brown colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky beige head, which leaves some wispy high altitude cloud pattern lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of lightly roasted caramel malt, some testy white grapefruit and orange citrus rind, a bit of dry chocolate, some free-range ashiness, and more leafy, piney, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser bready caramel sweetness, acrid grapefruit, lemon, and orange citrus pith, wet char, ethereal cocoa powder notes, and more earthy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-taunting frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and sort of smooth, as that dry roasted essence starts to tug at my tongue, more and more. It finishes barely off-dry, the base malt really flailing amongst the lingering citrus, pine, and char.
Overall, this is an appreciable version of the style, in that Garrison surely brought the blackening - lots of dry, roasted stuff going on here. Add to that a decent (dry-?) hoppy character, and we've got something that is very drinkable, and enjoyable, at least until my throat cinches up.
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