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Three Blind Mice
Mother's Brewing Company
- From:
- Mother's Brewing Company
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- Altbier
Ranked #76 - ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 81
Ranked #25,554 - Avg:
- 3.57 | pDev: 14.01%
- Reviews:
- 50
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 18, 2024
- Added:
- May 22, 2011
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 82
Three Blind Mice is inspired by our favorite qualities from English brown ales, German altbiers, and Irish reds. Mother’s trio of beer connoisseurs sipped away many a night, working to find this ideal combination. Mother’s beautiful brown beer is medium-bodied with caramel, toffee, and subtle chocolate malt flavors—all balanced by moderate hop notes and a clean, dry finish.
Three Blind Mice combines components of several malty beers for the unique brown beer experience you've been missing. After lots of research to find the perfect styles for our base, the clear winners were the lighter body and caramel characters of Irish red ales, the soft chocolate and toffee flavors from English brown ales, and the hop component and balance of German altbiers. We used traditional elements from each beer style and added our own touch for one incredible brown beer.
24 IBU
Three Blind Mice combines components of several malty beers for the unique brown beer experience you've been missing. After lots of research to find the perfect styles for our base, the clear winners were the lighter body and caramel characters of Irish red ales, the soft chocolate and toffee flavors from English brown ales, and the hop component and balance of German altbiers. We used traditional elements from each beer style and added our own touch for one incredible brown beer.
24 IBU
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Ratings by FBarber:
Reviewed by FBarber from Illinois
3.54/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours a crystal clear bay color. Thin off-white head dissipates quickly leaving no residual head or lacing.
Aroma is rather subdued, but has notes of nuts, earthy malts, with a kind of a plasticy sweetness coming through on the nose. An odd note, but otherwise straightforward.
Taste has notes of toasted malts with some earthy notes. Trends closer to a brown ale rather than an Alt. A definite hop bitterness comes through on the back end, but lacks the spice of the more traditional German hops.
Feel is light to medium bodied. Mild carbonation. Very dry finish.
Overall this is a solid, slightly above average Alt. It misses the mark in a few areas which holds it back, but its a good solid beer.
Mar 29, 2018Aroma is rather subdued, but has notes of nuts, earthy malts, with a kind of a plasticy sweetness coming through on the nose. An odd note, but otherwise straightforward.
Taste has notes of toasted malts with some earthy notes. Trends closer to a brown ale rather than an Alt. A definite hop bitterness comes through on the back end, but lacks the spice of the more traditional German hops.
Feel is light to medium bodied. Mild carbonation. Very dry finish.
Overall this is a solid, slightly above average Alt. It misses the mark in a few areas which holds it back, but its a good solid beer.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by travis1108 from Missouri
3.14/5 rDev -12%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.14/5 rDev -12%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
It's not a bad beer. Nothing to write home about but an easy drinking beer
Beautiful to look at. A little chemically on the swallow.
Love Mother's Brewing. This is far from their best but it's still not bad
Jan 18, 2024Beautiful to look at. A little chemically on the swallow.
Love Mother's Brewing. This is far from their best but it's still not bad
Reviewed by Captain69 from Illinois
3.91/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.91/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
My Daughter just brought me some beers back from Missouri. Yjis is the first Beer i've had from this brewer, This is a delightful malty alt. with side tastes of Chocolate and carmel . Can't wait to get more of their beers
Aug 14, 2021Reviewed by tryptagon from Missouri
4.04/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
L: Pours dark amber with just a surface covering of head, which fades to nothing in a couple minutes.
S: Chocolate malt, toffee, pie crust.
T: Rich explosion of caramel, warm spice, malt.
F: Warmth, fizz, crackle.
O: Prime example of a brown ale. Always a favorite.
Mar 23, 2021S: Chocolate malt, toffee, pie crust.
T: Rich explosion of caramel, warm spice, malt.
F: Warmth, fizz, crackle.
O: Prime example of a brown ale. Always a favorite.
Reviewed by wmscottsimpsonjr from Missouri
3.8/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Chocolatey brown with low-moderate head and good lacing. Rich malt scent. Chocolate-forward taste with some caramel sweetness. Moderately bitter and sharp carbonation.
Sep 06, 2018Reviewed by Franziskaner from Missouri
3.83/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Amber hued with a fingernail of tan to creamy beige head. I smell caramel and sweet bready malt. I'm tasting that caramel to almost a cola flavor. The mouth is faintly sticky and otherwise easygoing.
Aug 17, 2018Reviewed by mmva321 from Missouri
3.73/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
I really love the deep and rich amber look of this beer, and this is a solid and successful marriage between brown ales and Irish reds, but the complexity of this beer isn't quite there for me. I taste some hop bitterness, some malt sweetness and a fair amount of a robust yeast, but I don't quite taste all the underlying flavors advertised. I do like the feel of the beer, though. Seemingly thin enough, but creamy and filling at the same time.
A solid and simple beer to my taste.
Jun 15, 2018A solid and simple beer to my taste.
Three Blind Mice from Mother's Brewing Company
Beer rating:
81 out of
100 with
259 ratings
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