Phat Phantom
Eight Degrees Brewing
- From:
- Eight Degrees Brewing
- Ireland
- Style:
- Irish Dry Stout
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.88 | pDev: 13.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 07, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 21, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MAB from Canada (AB)
2.86/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
2.86/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
Day 22 of the 2018 Advent Calendar.
This one was a roller coaster ride. Looked great, eventually, but it was WAY over-carbonated.
Could smell chocolate and vanilla, but the taste was sour.
What should have been a full mouthfeel was thin.
A miss. A big miss.
Dec 23, 2018This one was a roller coaster ride. Looked great, eventually, but it was WAY over-carbonated.
Could smell chocolate and vanilla, but the taste was sour.
What should have been a full mouthfeel was thin.
A miss. A big miss.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.98/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.98/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
330ml bottle - day 22 of the 2018 Craft Beer Advent Calendar, a collaboration with not another Irish brewery, but an Irish distillery. This has been aged in Jameson whiskey barrels.
This beer pours a dark, murky amber-highlighted brown colour, with a veritable teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some intricate coastal delta pattern lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.
It smells of sour red stone fruit, gritty and grainy cereal malt, an ethereal wet woodiness, some damp ash, and bittersweet cocoa powder. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, sour grapes (hah), medium chocolate, some estery yeastiness, still hard to detect oaken notes, and a very faint earthy, musty, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its fizzing and frolicking frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, the sour character burbling just under the surface seeing to that. It finishes trending dry, the tartness starting to consider leaving its toothbrush in my mouth.
Overall - yeah, this didn't come across anything like I was expecting, it's more like a soured stout, than one aged in whiskey casks. So, to address the elephant in the middle of the room, yes, I believe that there's a touch of infection going on here - not one that is all that off-putting, other than it probably changed the whole profile of the original brew.
Dec 22, 2018This beer pours a dark, murky amber-highlighted brown colour, with a veritable teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some intricate coastal delta pattern lace around the glass as it slowly seeps away.
It smells of sour red stone fruit, gritty and grainy cereal malt, an ethereal wet woodiness, some damp ash, and bittersweet cocoa powder. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, sour grapes (hah), medium chocolate, some estery yeastiness, still hard to detect oaken notes, and a very faint earthy, musty, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its fizzing and frolicking frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, the sour character burbling just under the surface seeing to that. It finishes trending dry, the tartness starting to consider leaving its toothbrush in my mouth.
Overall - yeah, this didn't come across anything like I was expecting, it's more like a soured stout, than one aged in whiskey casks. So, to address the elephant in the middle of the room, yes, I believe that there's a touch of infection going on here - not one that is all that off-putting, other than it probably changed the whole profile of the original brew.
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