Over The Barrel - Grape
Rhinelander Brewing Company
- From:
- Rhinelander Brewing Company
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.28 | pDev: 21.95%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 16, 2017
- Added:
- Jun 01, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.57/5 rDev -21.6%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.57/5 rDev -21.6%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
330ml bottle, a single procured at the Liquor Depot nearest my abode (so, obviously not that far away, then). This is apparently actually beer (the Minhas kind, anyway), with a whole whack of 'natural and artificial flavourings'. Yeah.
This beer pours a clear, very dark candy purple colour, with a teeming tower of puffy and mostly just fizzy dirty white head, which disappears before my eyes, leaving zilch in the way of lace anywhere near the glass.
It smells from across the table of grape soda pop, some musty graininess, corn sugar, berry sugar, and a certain industrial plastic astringency. The taste is more grape Slurpee 'fruitiness', a nearly masked cheap corn and barley maltiness, perhaps imaginary dead yeast cells, and a thankfully receded cleaning solvent unpleasantness.
The carbonation is actually still pretty active, even after that violent initial outburst, via its simmering frothiness, the body a sturdy enough medium weight, and smooth like simple syrup - coating the inside of my mouth. It finishes on the sweet side, sure, and in a purple licorice strand sort of way.
Overall, the only way that Rhinelander/Minhas, et. al. can make their woefully inferior brews actually palatable is to flavour the hell out of them, and that is certainly what has happened here. The shoddy underlying ingredients are no match for that grape candy essence, except for dragging it down into cheap store-brand soda territory.
Jun 01, 2016This beer pours a clear, very dark candy purple colour, with a teeming tower of puffy and mostly just fizzy dirty white head, which disappears before my eyes, leaving zilch in the way of lace anywhere near the glass.
It smells from across the table of grape soda pop, some musty graininess, corn sugar, berry sugar, and a certain industrial plastic astringency. The taste is more grape Slurpee 'fruitiness', a nearly masked cheap corn and barley maltiness, perhaps imaginary dead yeast cells, and a thankfully receded cleaning solvent unpleasantness.
The carbonation is actually still pretty active, even after that violent initial outburst, via its simmering frothiness, the body a sturdy enough medium weight, and smooth like simple syrup - coating the inside of my mouth. It finishes on the sweet side, sure, and in a purple licorice strand sort of way.
Overall, the only way that Rhinelander/Minhas, et. al. can make their woefully inferior brews actually palatable is to flavour the hell out of them, and that is certainly what has happened here. The shoddy underlying ingredients are no match for that grape candy essence, except for dragging it down into cheap store-brand soda territory.
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