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Traverse
Tree House Brewing Company
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- From:
- Tree House Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Märzen
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 8.1%
- Reviews:
- 7
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 03, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 03, 2015
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 5
As the days grow shorter, and the weather changes we decided it was time to brew something for these beautiful Autumn New England days. Traverse pours a dark amber color. She opens with flavors of toasted malts, bread crusts, dark fruits, and and a caramel sweetness complemented by a dry finish. The first of our Autumn lager offerings, Traverse is sure to be the perfect companion for our favorite outdoor New England weather...
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Ratings by Nichols33:
Rated by Nichols33 from Massachusetts
3.5/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nov 15, 2015
3.5/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nov 15, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Johnct from New York
4.27/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Had this twice. Once regular, once on cask. I must say, on cask it was probably one of the best oktoberfestbiers I've ever had. All in all, it's a very good marzen.
Dec 13, 2015Reviewed by Davepoolesque from Massachusetts
4.12/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.12/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Traditional Vienna malt base. Some interesting underlying fruit hop flavors. Very smooth, clean tasting Marzen. Lower carb level. Balanced sweetness. Rich mouthfeel. I wish I had this for Octoberfest. I could put a lot of this away.
Nov 24, 2015Reviewed by dar482 from New York
4.28/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Batch #2, 5.5% Marzen version.
The beer comes in a deep reddish color with an off white head.
The aroma offers toasty malts, nuttiness, hints of fruitiness, sliced red grape.
The flavor offers a hint of fruitiness up front, almost like the Juicy Fruit from the hoppy ales of Tree House. Then onto complex toasty malts, brown toasted peasant loaf, more nuttiness, onto a clean lager finish with hints of lingering malt flavor.
Nov 17, 2015The beer comes in a deep reddish color with an off white head.
The aroma offers toasty malts, nuttiness, hints of fruitiness, sliced red grape.
The flavor offers a hint of fruitiness up front, almost like the Juicy Fruit from the hoppy ales of Tree House. Then onto complex toasty malts, brown toasted peasant loaf, more nuttiness, onto a clean lager finish with hints of lingering malt flavor.
Reviewed by ThrewRedButter from Massachusetts
4/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
L - Dark amber and mostly hazy. A finger of off-white head.
S - Lager yeast, red grape, some pine and caramel.
T - Multi-grain bread, sweet and toasted malts, apple seeds, grape skin
F - Full and not thinned out. Refreshing and a wide flavor palette.
O - One of the better Oktoberfests out there. Full-flavored and easy-drinking.
Nov 15, 2015S - Lager yeast, red grape, some pine and caramel.
T - Multi-grain bread, sweet and toasted malts, apple seeds, grape skin
F - Full and not thinned out. Refreshing and a wide flavor palette.
O - One of the better Oktoberfests out there. Full-flavored and easy-drinking.
Reviewed by khoff5 from Connecticut
3.99/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Thought it was a Marzen before looking it up here, got a 750 bottle fill last weekend - dark amber, little head, little carbonation, but great smell, large taste - good amount of malt with a bit of hops and some spice mixed in, thinner mouthfeel than expected but nice aftertaste. Would buy again!
Oct 17, 2015Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
3.29/5 rDev -16.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.29/5 rDev -16.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Another thanks to rudzud for sharing.
Little 1 finger head fades pretty quickly, no real lacing, very dark very slightly clear auburn mahogany brown color.
Nose toasty brown malts, auburn reddish amber malts, touch baking spices somehow, quite fruity, bready yeasty thing, hint spicy fruity hop, faint molasses thing.
Taste more sweet malts, candy like toasty amber and auburn brown, little fruity and almost nutty, molasses like raw earthy molasses, little fruity fig and dried tree fruit, mild bitterness and spicy hop, chewy with mild yeasty bready. Finish weird bitterness, earthy slight metallic, sticky sweet molasses, straw thing.
Mouth is med bod little syrupy, decent carb, not very lager crisp.
Overall not very good, sorry guys, not everything you make is gold, this was fairly meh.
Oct 10, 2015Little 1 finger head fades pretty quickly, no real lacing, very dark very slightly clear auburn mahogany brown color.
Nose toasty brown malts, auburn reddish amber malts, touch baking spices somehow, quite fruity, bready yeasty thing, hint spicy fruity hop, faint molasses thing.
Taste more sweet malts, candy like toasty amber and auburn brown, little fruity and almost nutty, molasses like raw earthy molasses, little fruity fig and dried tree fruit, mild bitterness and spicy hop, chewy with mild yeasty bready. Finish weird bitterness, earthy slight metallic, sticky sweet molasses, straw thing.
Mouth is med bod little syrupy, decent carb, not very lager crisp.
Overall not very good, sorry guys, not everything you make is gold, this was fairly meh.
Traverse from Tree House Brewing Company
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
27 ratings
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