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Boom Shakalager
Terrapin Beer Company
- From:
- Terrapin Beer Company
- Georgia, United States
- Style:
- Märzen
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- 78
- Avg:
- 3.37 | pDev: 16.62%
- Reviews:
- 91
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 16, 2015
- Added:
- May 28, 2010
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 3
Side Project #11
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Reviewed by Jadjunk from Georgia
2.87/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.87/5 rDev -14.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
"Boom Shaka-Lager is the next installment in Terrapin's "Side Project" series if beers. This Imperial Lager is made exclusively with German malts, German Hops and a true Bavarian lager yeast strain. While 99% of the beers brewed with Terrapin are ales, we figured we should show some love to the lager style as well. Not that this one-beat, big beer is going to be brewed to a traditional style or anything. Spike's Brewing Words of Wisdom: Guaranteed to turn any Fest Hall Fraulein's head." Brewed in the style of an Oktoberfest/Märzen. Side Project #11 released in May 2010, some bottles are still floating around in the Athens, Georgia area.
Poured from a 22 oz. bottle to an imperial pint glass. Served north of 53º Fahrenheit.
(Appearance) Head pours a cream white foam over a deep amber body with a deep haze and ample carbonation. Head retention is quite good, lacing is medium thick and consistent. A nice appearance. 4.25
(Smell) Aroma is largely muddied with time but there is a notable bready sweet malt, a touch of caramel, and a murky grass hop note. Very heavy yeast presence, slightly phenolic and even a touch oxidized. Aroma hasn't maintained well. 2.75
(Taste) Up front caramel and rye bread with a syrupy sweet presence. Sharp alcohol on the finish exposed through a faded body but a residual caramel sweetness still remains for a mildly dry finish. Hop presence is pretty much gone. 2.5
(Mouthfeel) Creamy and smooth with a syrupy sweet finish and booze. Body is heavy for the style, medium/heavy overall. 3.5
(Overall) It's past it's prime, I'm afraid, but still manages to be really sweet and heavily-bodied nonetheless, which isn't all that impressive by German Lager standards. 3
Terrapin Beer Company's
Side Project Volume 11: Boom Shakalager Bavarian Style Imperial Lager
2.84/5.00
Apr 19, 2013Poured from a 22 oz. bottle to an imperial pint glass. Served north of 53º Fahrenheit.
(Appearance) Head pours a cream white foam over a deep amber body with a deep haze and ample carbonation. Head retention is quite good, lacing is medium thick and consistent. A nice appearance. 4.25
(Smell) Aroma is largely muddied with time but there is a notable bready sweet malt, a touch of caramel, and a murky grass hop note. Very heavy yeast presence, slightly phenolic and even a touch oxidized. Aroma hasn't maintained well. 2.75
(Taste) Up front caramel and rye bread with a syrupy sweet presence. Sharp alcohol on the finish exposed through a faded body but a residual caramel sweetness still remains for a mildly dry finish. Hop presence is pretty much gone. 2.5
(Mouthfeel) Creamy and smooth with a syrupy sweet finish and booze. Body is heavy for the style, medium/heavy overall. 3.5
(Overall) It's past it's prime, I'm afraid, but still manages to be really sweet and heavily-bodied nonetheless, which isn't all that impressive by German Lager standards. 3
Terrapin Beer Company's
Side Project Volume 11: Boom Shakalager Bavarian Style Imperial Lager
2.84/5.00
Reviewed by match1112 from Illinois
3.55/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
a: deep copper in color with a half inch of sand colored head that settled to a thin ring with moderate lacing.
s: very sweet, malts, hops and sugar.
t: sweet bready malts at first, then turning to a light brown sugar taste with some hops hidden in there and a warming effect from the alochol.
m: full bodied, almost chewy with all the sticky sugar in there. good carbonation, burn on the back end.
o: very strong beer. not well blended, everything jumps out one at a time to let you know it's in there, but it's not a subtly transition.
Dec 23, 2011s: very sweet, malts, hops and sugar.
t: sweet bready malts at first, then turning to a light brown sugar taste with some hops hidden in there and a warming effect from the alochol.
m: full bodied, almost chewy with all the sticky sugar in there. good carbonation, burn on the back end.
o: very strong beer. not well blended, everything jumps out one at a time to let you know it's in there, but it's not a subtly transition.
Boom Shakalager from Terrapin Beer Company
Beer rating:
78 out of
100 with
115 ratings
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