Shipping Out of Boston (2018-2019)
Jack's Abby Brewing

Pours a cloudy brown with a slight head with good lacing. Malty, sweet and crisp. Highly drinkable with light carbonation.

 

 

Clear, golden appearance. Modest head leaves a series of spots on the glass.

Mild and grainy smell. No notable hop.

Creamy, pale malt flavoring which lasts throughout the tasting. Very light hop presence. This is true to the style. The mouthfeel is as one would expect. The aftertaste is brief but appropriate.

Clear dark honey gold in color, with a touch of floating sediment, lots of rising bubbles, and a creamy eggshell white head that lasts for a long time and leaves nice lacing.
Smells of cool, minty Noble hops; fresh cut grass, bell pepper, perhaps a touch of catnip--with honey sweetness, toasted wheat bread, and raw cereal grains.
A nice smack of tantalizing honey, with toasted biscuit, bread crust, and cereal. Grainy and rustic, with a pleasant candied malt sweetness. On the back end you get the pleasant touch of balancing herbal Noble hops--fresh cut grass, bell pepper, white pepper, lemon zest, and hay. Leans slightly sweet--at least, initially, but finishes incredibly crisp, clean, and balanced.
Feels medium-ish, well carbonated, moves quickly on the palate without feeling filling.

An excellent Kellerbier. A real knockout from Jack's Abby!

Pours clear gold with a white head that leaves a trail of lace.

Smells of spicy grain, lemon hops, roasted nuts.

Spicy grain and lemon hops give way to sweet cereal malt middle. Finishes dry with notes of toasted barely.

An easy pour from a 16-oz. can yields a finger of off-white froth with short retention and minimal lacing. Cloudy gold-straw color, rising bubbles. Light yellow straw in front of light.
Sweet yeast and toasted pale malt lead the smell, dough and a faint sour funk in reserve.
The taste begins semi-sweet and lightly bitter with faint fruit cocktail. The middle is bready and malty soft. The long finish is neutral with a moderate spicy hop bitterness/aftertaste.
Medium light bodied, plenty of reserved carbonation. Malty smooth, alcohol is hidden.
Bold sweet yeast in the smell and taste. Some sediment, decanting reduces the cloudiness.

 

Poured into a pils glass
L: Golden/burnt orange color, fair amount of turbidity, decent head retention and lace
S: biscuit, honey, slight touches of dough
T: repeat of the nose but with some fruity additions. They are faint and thus hard to characterize but reminds me of a “fruit” flavored bubblegum. Light wash of herbal hop bitterness on the finish, as well as a dry soda cracker maltiness.
F: damned smooth. Carbonation is definitely high but it’s not prickly, it’s soft. Body certainly is fuller but does not detract from drinkability.
O: I’m a lager fiend so this really tickles my fancy. I hope they continue with this cuz I’m a fan. Sort of a best of both worlds beer. Light refreshing and clean, highly drinkable, yet provides some robustness in flavor and body.

 

If I had no idea what this was, I would guess it was a kolsch.

Reviewing as part of BJCP training. 7C. Kellerbier. Halfway between pale and amber versions. Canned 1/04/19
Pours a nice foamy fizzy head with decent retention, little lacing, mostly clear slight hazed, deep golden tan color

Nose a bit yeasty, doughy malt, mild bread crust, rich malt with little toasty amber like malt, but not caramel or biscuity, no hop aroma

Taste plenty of malts, this time very toasted biscuity doughy, hints at sweetness, more bread crust, hops are clean flavoured but add fair bitterness, nice balance, soft lager, touch of slick diacetyl, dry finish little lingering bitterness. Edit: as it warms some sulfates and minerals start to come through a little too much for the style

Mouth is med bod, nice fizzy carbonation, touch slick diacetyl I think

Overall pretty nice, def somewhere between amber and pale kellerbier but has nice aspects of both, pretty enjoyable and well done aligning with style guidelines

 

 

 

 

Review #900. 16 oz can.

Pale gold and clear with a medium-sized white head. Word to the wise: Pour the last few ounces slowly and leave an ounce or two in the can or you will end up with some nasty chunks of yeast floating around in your beer.

Sweet, grainy Pils malt aroma. Herbal hops on the back end give it just enough hop character to balance things out. Nothing overly complex going on. Flavor leans more towards the malt but the bitterness is still there.

Man, this beer is smooth, smooth, smooth! Extremely soft and rounded. Medium bodied, pushing medium-full. Very drinkable and agreeable. Jack's Abby nailed the style on this one. Think of it as a Helles with a little more oompf.

Pours a cloudy orange with a well retained two inch creamy white head that left a lot of lacing. Smells and tastes of sweet malts, mild hops (some lemon and lemon peel), lightly toasted bread. Light bodied, medium carbonation, virtually no bitterness, clean, crisp and very refreshing. Simple and very well done.