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Urban Chestnut Brewing Company - Midtown Brewery & Biergarten

 

 

Appearance: Looks like muddy water...light brown and cloudy with a moderate white head. Aroma: Light herbal hop notes, with a hint of bready malt. Taste: Bready, crystal malt with a hint of saltiness, and a moderate floral, herbal hop bitterness. The combination has a certain tea like flavor. Mouthfeel: Medium with a slight creaminess and moderate carbonation Finish: Really sweet crystal malt finish, with a slight resinous sticky feeling on the tongue. Overall: an interesting take on an English IPA. Seems lower in bitterness than style, an the malt charcheter seems overly sweet. After a few drinks I warm to it, but in no way would call it an English IPA

 

This Ale is good, but not great.

 

Hazy gold color, the beer has a phenomenal white head. The scent is of stone fruit and hops....herbal hops, with a little earthy undertone. The fruit theme is very present in the taste...and great balance with huge sweetish malt up front. The hop flavor is full in the mid-taste, and the finish is clean. Balanced, and very nice.

 

Pours a cloudy, orange/amber color. 1/3 inch head of a white color. Great retention and good lacing. Smells of sweet malt, yeast, coriander, hint of banana, slight alcohol, hint of pale malt, hint of citrus, hint of hops, and slight earthy malt. Fits the style of an English Pale Ale. Mouth feel is smooth and clean, with an average carbonation level. Tastes of sweet malt, slight pale malt, coriander, hint of banana, hint of hops, hint of earthy malt, and yeast. Overall, great blend, good feel, good blend, decent appearance, the alcohol and hops are very muted, but still good.

Damn this brewery does not make very good beers. I was hoping the first one was an oddball. This one is the worst beer I have had in a long time.

Color: Best part of this beer. Looks like a typical IPA.

Aroma: Nothing worthy of noting. I swear Budweiser must own this brewery, because it has more aroma.

Taste: Terrible, nothing some mild grains, it just has no flavor really and what is there is not pleasant.

Overall: One of the worst craft beers I have had in a long time. Terrible.

16oz bottle. Poured out a clear, golden amber color with a small, foamy, white head. It smelled of earthy notes with a biscuity malt profile. It tasted of caramel malt with an earthy/spicy hop taste.

Great tasting beer that has become my favorite beer from them these days.

 

Amber hued with some haziness. A fingernail of off white head covers most of the top. Some floral to earthy hops are somewhat detectable. There's a bit of sweaty gym sock! The flavor is more of a citrus hop flavor almost bordering on orange soda. The blend of aroma and bitter citrus taste is cloying and off putting. The mouth is warm and carbonated. Definitely a miss from this brewery.