Brisk
Tree House Brewing Company

 

 

This one pours as a lightish golden amber color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells softly grassy and floral, with a touch of oak, caramel, and breadiness.

Tree House does marzens/festbiers extremely well – they make a whole slew of them now. But this one just might be the best of them, as that touch of softly sweet and spicy oak just really rounds out and softens everything super nicely.

This is light bodied, very crisp, and slightly creamy, with a great drinkability.

This is a huge treat if you love the style.

 

 

 

 

 

On tap at Tree House Charlton

Well, look at that, I ended up with an unexpected day off due to a power outage. I capitalized on this opportunity by taking a drive up to Tree House for the second week in a row. This is one I’ve been meaning to try for quite some time, and I’m glad I can get an authentic side pull experience for it. Let’s dig in

Pours a slightly cloudy copper orange with 2 fingers of creamy off white head that slowly fades to a thin cap and leaves nice lacing

It’s pretty standard stuff in the nose but I definitely dig it. I’m picking up on aromas of pumpernickel toast, sweet honey, biscuit, floral hops, black pepper, toasted grain, and a touch of oak

It’s a bit more expressive and bright in taste which is a nice step up. On the front end of the sip I’m tasting biscuity malt, sweet honey, floral hops, lemon zest, toasted grain, black tea, and toasted oak. The swallow brings notes of biscuity malt, black tea, floral hops, black pepper, toasted grain, toffee, and light lemon zest

A medium body pairs with gentle tingling carbonation, resulting in a crisp and refreshing beer. Finishes a tad sticky but it doesn’t detract much

This is really solid stuff for a style I don’t tend to love all that much. Definitely happy I tried it

 

 

Canned 9.24, opened 11.27, poured into a 1/2L wurzburger hofbrau stein

Brewers notes: Notes: Brisk is our German-style Märzenbier conditioned in oak until perfectly softened. Brewed with German Pilsner, Munich, Cara Munich, and Vienna malts, it is fermented cool with a traditional Märzen yeast and then transferred to our horizontal oak lagering tank for extended refinement and conditioning.

With softened noble hop character, accentuated malts, and the ever-so-gentle kiss of American oak, Brisk is crisp, refreshing, and hugely characterful — a triumphant transmutation of Whisper.

Clear copper liquid , capped by a three finger off white fluffy foam cap, striated lacings , settles to a pencil thick layer after 5 minutes

Aroma is malty, bready, toasty, slight sweetness

Taste is malty, bready , slight spiciness at the finish , oakiness

Good sudsing, clean crisp, gentle hop finish

Good beer

Fairly aggressive pour resulted in a two finger head with decent retention and lacing. Clear & medium amber in color. Overall, an attractive pour. Aroma is sweet malts. Taste follows, and is bready malts that are slightly too sweet. Medium body. Solid beer.

2021-11-03
16oz can served in a Mayflower pint glass. Dated 09/24/21. Received as a retaliation from @WunderLlama in NBS BIF #14.

Pours a clear light amber with a small head, maybe a centimeter. Fades to a thin layer, slightly thicker along the the sides of the glass, with a couple fairly small clumpy islands of bubbles. Not a lot of carbonation. Smell is fairly mild, lightly bready, lightly nutty, light to moderate lager yeast. Some grain tea.

Taste is heavy on the grain tea. Moderately to very sweet. Moderately bready, definitely some nuts and a little toffee, possibly some molasses. Slight roasty bitterness and slight hoppy bitterness.

Mouthfeel is on the light side of medium. Clean, somewhat lively. Overall, very nice beer.

 

 

 

 

Pours clear, copper in color with three quarter inch head. Taste is oak, brown bread and light brown sugar. Medium body, moderate low carbonation, slightly sweet. I prefer Whisper but this is solid. Nice sipper.

Picked-up a four-pack of cans at Tree House in Sandwich for about fourteen dollars. My one hundred and eighty seventh brew from these guys. Not a big fan of this.