Oak-Aged Simon Girty
Strange Roots Experimental Ales
- From:
- Strange Roots Experimental Ales
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.55 | pDev: 18.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 04, 2013
- Added:
- Oct 07, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by OWSLEY069 from Pennsylvania
3.65/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a deep amber color with an off white head. In the aroma, muted orange citrus. In the taste, dry orange citrus with notes of cocoa and oaky notes. A mellow spice like bite and a medium bodied mouthfeel, with a semi dry note of cocoa and oak in the aftertaste. Not as sweet as the standard, but not overly oaky either.
Jul 13, 2013
Reviewed by OneDropSoup from Pennsylvania
3.3/5 rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.3/5 rDev -7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
On tap at House of 1000 Beers in New Kensington, PA.
Poured into a stemmed tulip: Chestnut body, translucent but very murky with an orange glow under 3 fingers of soft tan head that drops to a finger & leaves splotchy lacing.
Smells of nicely toasty & nutty grains, baked apple, a little bit of coconut.
Taste starts with a kind of fig & banana interplay, some mild molasses sweetness, but then yields a really strange, intense fresh oak flavor that, combined with the alcohol, approaches a fusel/solvent character that's really kind of difficult. Luckily it doesn't seem to last past the first sip. What's left, thankfully, is more of an overripe banana & a kind of nutmeg spiciness. Not bad, really on the sweet side, but that first sip's a doozy, & the score reflects that.
Medium-bodied, the sugar really clings but there's also a dry, almost medicinal bite that accompanies it. It's almost as if it's both boozy & hot but underattenuated at the same time.
The smell had me hoping for more from this one, & while what's left after that first sip is pleasant, I don't get the oak then - it's almost like it packs all the oak of the whole beer into one overwhelming punch at first. I really think there are some kinks to be worked out with this one: mellow the oak character & figure out what's going on with the sugar/alcohol balance.
Oct 07, 2012Poured into a stemmed tulip: Chestnut body, translucent but very murky with an orange glow under 3 fingers of soft tan head that drops to a finger & leaves splotchy lacing.
Smells of nicely toasty & nutty grains, baked apple, a little bit of coconut.
Taste starts with a kind of fig & banana interplay, some mild molasses sweetness, but then yields a really strange, intense fresh oak flavor that, combined with the alcohol, approaches a fusel/solvent character that's really kind of difficult. Luckily it doesn't seem to last past the first sip. What's left, thankfully, is more of an overripe banana & a kind of nutmeg spiciness. Not bad, really on the sweet side, but that first sip's a doozy, & the score reflects that.
Medium-bodied, the sugar really clings but there's also a dry, almost medicinal bite that accompanies it. It's almost as if it's both boozy & hot but underattenuated at the same time.
The smell had me hoping for more from this one, & while what's left after that first sip is pleasant, I don't get the oak then - it's almost like it packs all the oak of the whole beer into one overwhelming punch at first. I really think there are some kinks to be worked out with this one: mellow the oak character & figure out what's going on with the sugar/alcohol balance.
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