Wet Hop With Rooibos
West Sixth Brewing Company
- From:
- West Sixth Brewing Company
- Kentucky, United States
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
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- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 0%
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- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 11, 2013
- Added:
- Oct 11, 2013
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Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.49/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
No, its not a beer that's brewed with that tangy-fruity plant thing. Nor is it brewed with international basketball point guards. And its not brewed with microscopic life-building properties. Rooibos is it and it commands the taste of this week's "Firkin Thursday" edition brew.
Opening with the classic understated creaminess that is "cask ale", the beer's body is a murky haze from an abundance of yeast. Its color is coral with a pink-orange combination. And that dainty and delicate creme that floats above is stark white. Light lacing joins me en route to the bottom of the glass for an appearance that's quite boutique and charming- if not a bit quirky.
Sweet and fruity, the first whiff is rich and malty. Bready like flaky pastries, its sweetness is honey-like with peps of light caramel. Oranges, peaches, apricots, mangoes and papaya all play into the tropical and orchard medley. But an earthen waft floats above and gives the beer a spicy tea-like character. At times even an almost-cumin, almost-curry note strikes the olfactories in just the right way.
To taste, the beer sides heavily with the sweetness. All that fruity taste rounds out in a very "Fruit Roll-Ups" kind of way. Tropical mangoes, apricots and pineapple meet orchard apples, oranges and peaches for something akin to marmalade. Just as the ale falls into cloying territory, here prances in the herbal rooibos for a pep of chai-like spiciness and herbaceousness. Even the taste of fresh-pulled tobacco and smoky cumin aids the beer in its waning sips.
Richly textured, the ale isn't full but its not light either. Medium weighted, the fruity sweetness acts as a paper weight in holding the tongue down. Its slight creaminess from low-lying carbonation prefers to saturate the taste buds than to lift from them. This causes the ale to change from a would-be "drinking" ale and into a "sipping" one. Its lightly cloying texture signals closure with a light fruity acidity and a peppery (assuming) rooibos tannin-rich astringency.
It goes to mention that the beer is a "wet hopped" something or other. But any hop complements are light enough to get lost in the enormity of fruit and sweetness. Although there's much to question about the recipe formulation and brewing technique of this ale, I rather enjoyed it- worts (pun intended) and all! I don't think this is an ale that's a good contender for cask as it really needs to be propped up by much more substantial carbonation.
Oct 11, 2013Opening with the classic understated creaminess that is "cask ale", the beer's body is a murky haze from an abundance of yeast. Its color is coral with a pink-orange combination. And that dainty and delicate creme that floats above is stark white. Light lacing joins me en route to the bottom of the glass for an appearance that's quite boutique and charming- if not a bit quirky.
Sweet and fruity, the first whiff is rich and malty. Bready like flaky pastries, its sweetness is honey-like with peps of light caramel. Oranges, peaches, apricots, mangoes and papaya all play into the tropical and orchard medley. But an earthen waft floats above and gives the beer a spicy tea-like character. At times even an almost-cumin, almost-curry note strikes the olfactories in just the right way.
To taste, the beer sides heavily with the sweetness. All that fruity taste rounds out in a very "Fruit Roll-Ups" kind of way. Tropical mangoes, apricots and pineapple meet orchard apples, oranges and peaches for something akin to marmalade. Just as the ale falls into cloying territory, here prances in the herbal rooibos for a pep of chai-like spiciness and herbaceousness. Even the taste of fresh-pulled tobacco and smoky cumin aids the beer in its waning sips.
Richly textured, the ale isn't full but its not light either. Medium weighted, the fruity sweetness acts as a paper weight in holding the tongue down. Its slight creaminess from low-lying carbonation prefers to saturate the taste buds than to lift from them. This causes the ale to change from a would-be "drinking" ale and into a "sipping" one. Its lightly cloying texture signals closure with a light fruity acidity and a peppery (assuming) rooibos tannin-rich astringency.
It goes to mention that the beer is a "wet hopped" something or other. But any hop complements are light enough to get lost in the enormity of fruit and sweetness. Although there's much to question about the recipe formulation and brewing technique of this ale, I rather enjoyed it- worts (pun intended) and all! I don't think this is an ale that's a good contender for cask as it really needs to be propped up by much more substantial carbonation.
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