Old Fashioned Alternate Universe
8th Wonder Brewery
- From:
- 8th Wonder Brewery
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Altbier
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.16 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 21, 2015
- Added:
- Jul 21, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by champ103 from Texas
2.16/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
2.16/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
On cask at Mongoose Versus Cobra. I am adding this as an Altbeir, cause that is supposedly what the base style is. Though that in and of itself is not very clear. This is bourbon barrel aged Alternate Universe with angostura bitters and orange peal. From notes I took while at the bar...
A: Pours a flat, murky looking light brown. No head, no lace, looks lifeless.
S: Dirty wood, and orange peal. Earthy, herbal notes and nondescript spice. As this warms it become to herbaceous. You can't tell if there is any base beer here at all. While that is not completely a bad thing, just no definition, and I don't know what to thing of this?
T: Like dirt, wood, orange peal, very herbaceous and spicy again. It is like someone was trying to put a few drops of Angostura in a mixed drink, and the cap came off. So you have a mess of herbal, over powering dirty wood and nothing else. Oh my.
M/D: No body, completely flat, and lifeless. Dirty, and unpleasant all around. I could hardly finish a few ounces. I sent it back and had the bar make me a real Old Fashioned.
Exactly the kind of "innovation" I can't stand. Throw a mediocre beer, that has no business being called and Altbeir in the first place, into a bourbon barrel. Put it on cask, and wow they are really imaginative (please read the sarcasm). This isn't their first bad cask, wont be their last, and unfortunately all to common with new breweries to try and make a name for themselves. This should never have been made.
Jul 21, 2015A: Pours a flat, murky looking light brown. No head, no lace, looks lifeless.
S: Dirty wood, and orange peal. Earthy, herbal notes and nondescript spice. As this warms it become to herbaceous. You can't tell if there is any base beer here at all. While that is not completely a bad thing, just no definition, and I don't know what to thing of this?
T: Like dirt, wood, orange peal, very herbaceous and spicy again. It is like someone was trying to put a few drops of Angostura in a mixed drink, and the cap came off. So you have a mess of herbal, over powering dirty wood and nothing else. Oh my.
M/D: No body, completely flat, and lifeless. Dirty, and unpleasant all around. I could hardly finish a few ounces. I sent it back and had the bar make me a real Old Fashioned.
Exactly the kind of "innovation" I can't stand. Throw a mediocre beer, that has no business being called and Altbeir in the first place, into a bourbon barrel. Put it on cask, and wow they are really imaginative (please read the sarcasm). This isn't their first bad cask, wont be their last, and unfortunately all to common with new breweries to try and make a name for themselves. This should never have been made.
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