Summer Sommer
Garage Project
- From:
- Garage Project
- New Zealand
- Style:
- American Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.93 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 01, 2014
- Added:
- Aug 01, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
2.93/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.93/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
650ml brown bomber purchased from Oak Barrel in Sydney. This is a collaboration between Garage Project and Nøgne Ø, brewed with rye and Pohutakawa honey.
Pours a deep, rather dark golden colour, with a thin, fine, but ultimately collapsing head of white that survives just as a slick ring around the outside of the glass. Some fine patterned lacing forms, however. Body is weighty, and the carbonation is very fine. Looks decent.
Nose is incredibly heavy and sweet: the honey is still extremely pronounced and it doesn't seem as though the sugars have really fully fermented out. There's a slightly herbal overtone to it, but with the sweetness this gives it a suggestion of the aroma of Sprite. And then with everything else, it has a savoury tone to it like tomato ketchup. "Interesting" is generous—but it is that at least.
Taste is quite similar. At least the sweetness is a little less pronounced here than it might be otherwise. There's still a rather persistent ketchup flavour on the middle and the back, but it's a bit lighter overall. Unfortunately, it doesn't feel balanced even here, with nothing coming up to meet the challenge of those honey notes. Feel is thick and slick, which probably doesn't help the perception of all of this.
To be honest, I had a hard time drinking my glass of this. This feels really quite unbalanced and certainly not very drinkable. I'll admit I'm very much not a fan of honey beers, but I thought if anyone could turn my head it would be these guys—from two such fine breweries, this is bitterly disappointing.
Aug 01, 2014Pours a deep, rather dark golden colour, with a thin, fine, but ultimately collapsing head of white that survives just as a slick ring around the outside of the glass. Some fine patterned lacing forms, however. Body is weighty, and the carbonation is very fine. Looks decent.
Nose is incredibly heavy and sweet: the honey is still extremely pronounced and it doesn't seem as though the sugars have really fully fermented out. There's a slightly herbal overtone to it, but with the sweetness this gives it a suggestion of the aroma of Sprite. And then with everything else, it has a savoury tone to it like tomato ketchup. "Interesting" is generous—but it is that at least.
Taste is quite similar. At least the sweetness is a little less pronounced here than it might be otherwise. There's still a rather persistent ketchup flavour on the middle and the back, but it's a bit lighter overall. Unfortunately, it doesn't feel balanced even here, with nothing coming up to meet the challenge of those honey notes. Feel is thick and slick, which probably doesn't help the perception of all of this.
To be honest, I had a hard time drinking my glass of this. This feels really quite unbalanced and certainly not very drinkable. I'll admit I'm very much not a fan of honey beers, but I thought if anyone could turn my head it would be these guys—from two such fine breweries, this is bitterly disappointing.
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