Forbidden Fruit
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 15.14%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 09, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 22, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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A fusion of our beer with Merridale Ciderworks famous cider. This collaborative effort is refreshing with interesting malt characteristics and ripe apple flavours. It ends, as all great things must, with a uniquely dry and crisp finish!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.18/5 rDev -17%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.18/5 rDev -17%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Day 17 of the Phillips Snowcase advent calendar. 341ml bottle poured into tulip.
Pours a not-quite-clear golden yellow with one finger of loose foamy off-white head that leaves a ring of irregular lace as it recedes.
Smells of dry apple cider and mild grainy malt with barely detectable hops.
Tastes of cold apple pie with very mild leafy hops. Alcohol is present but well-behaved.
Feels not quite frothy enough. Medium-light bodied with a dry, cidery finish.
Verdict: Not bad, but it seems like cider and beer should be kept separate.
Dec 22, 2015Pours a not-quite-clear golden yellow with one finger of loose foamy off-white head that leaves a ring of irregular lace as it recedes.
Smells of dry apple cider and mild grainy malt with barely detectable hops.
Tastes of cold apple pie with very mild leafy hops. Alcohol is present but well-behaved.
Feels not quite frothy enough. Medium-light bodied with a dry, cidery finish.
Verdict: Not bad, but it seems like cider and beer should be kept separate.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.67/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
341ml bottle, part of a broken-open 2015 Snowcase pack at my local chain liquor store outlet. An apple beer, or 'snakebite' in bartender terminology - whatever, this appears to be a mix of cider and unspecified brew.
This, um, beer, pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and kind of bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some eroding limestone cliff lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells predominantly of musty red apples, with a weak pale graininess, a bit of earthy yeast, and a very plain leafy, weedy hop bitterness. The taste is bready, somewhat doughy pale malt, more strong mushy apple flesh, a hovering wan yeastiness, subtle damp earthy and weedy hops, and a lurking sense of cidery alcohol (if you drink cider, you'll know what I mean).
The bubbles are quite understated in their generally sleepy frothiness, the body on the low side of yer typical middleweight, and so-so smooth, as the yeasty acridity and boozy ingress start to show a few foundation cracks, as it were. It finishes pushing dry, the cider still holding sway over its, I'm gonna say, Blonde Ale bunkmate.
Overall, a quaffable enough affair, I suppose, the apple cider character not the wallflower in this particular mash-up, no sirree. A strange melange of sweet and dry, but, as advertised, fruity and malty, in a healthy combination, one that might seem better on a sunny summer patio, but, once again, they've upped the ABV here, to make it play more readily in December's 'warm' basements.
Nov 18, 2015This, um, beer, pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and kind of bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some eroding limestone cliff lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells predominantly of musty red apples, with a weak pale graininess, a bit of earthy yeast, and a very plain leafy, weedy hop bitterness. The taste is bready, somewhat doughy pale malt, more strong mushy apple flesh, a hovering wan yeastiness, subtle damp earthy and weedy hops, and a lurking sense of cidery alcohol (if you drink cider, you'll know what I mean).
The bubbles are quite understated in their generally sleepy frothiness, the body on the low side of yer typical middleweight, and so-so smooth, as the yeasty acridity and boozy ingress start to show a few foundation cracks, as it were. It finishes pushing dry, the cider still holding sway over its, I'm gonna say, Blonde Ale bunkmate.
Overall, a quaffable enough affair, I suppose, the apple cider character not the wallflower in this particular mash-up, no sirree. A strange melange of sweet and dry, but, as advertised, fruity and malty, in a healthy combination, one that might seem better on a sunny summer patio, but, once again, they've upped the ABV here, to make it play more readily in December's 'warm' basements.
Reviewed by BDTyre from Canada (BC)
3.83/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.83/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Hmmm....microbrew snakebite.
A darker body than a cider -way more coppery in hue. Decent head, big but not out of control.
The smell is kind of bland. Musk, cider hints, faint ale smell. I really have to inhale hard to appreciate the delicacies.
Really good taste, like a malty, light cider. I often have trouble drinking cider due to the strong biterness/astringency/sulphite character, but this is thankfully lacking. It has the light, apple crispness but with a nice pale ale body. Still a bit of bitterness, enough to remind me this is a cider.
This is bubbly, but it seems a little too..weak. It just seems for light on the tongue.
A really good beer-cider mix. I wonder if this was built from the ground up or is simply a fusion of a Phillip's and a Merridale product. Great drink, nice and refreshing.
Mar 05, 2008A darker body than a cider -way more coppery in hue. Decent head, big but not out of control.
The smell is kind of bland. Musk, cider hints, faint ale smell. I really have to inhale hard to appreciate the delicacies.
Really good taste, like a malty, light cider. I often have trouble drinking cider due to the strong biterness/astringency/sulphite character, but this is thankfully lacking. It has the light, apple crispness but with a nice pale ale body. Still a bit of bitterness, enough to remind me this is a cider.
This is bubbly, but it seems a little too..weak. It just seems for light on the tongue.
A really good beer-cider mix. I wonder if this was built from the ground up or is simply a fusion of a Phillip's and a Merridale product. Great drink, nice and refreshing.
Reviewed by canucklehead from Canada (BC)
3.97/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Seems like Matt is putting out a limited release every month. This is a co-op beer with Merridale cidery ( Both Vancouver Island ) and in my mind the beer/cider combo works. The nose is all dry cider but the taste has the ale backbone tempered with an apple twang and a definite cidery dryness. A little like Unibroue's Ephemere without the Belgian touch. Very drinkable and a neat idea for a beer
Feb 22, 2008
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