Twin Creeks The Hermit
Ribstone Creek Brewery
- From:
- Ribstone Creek Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.59 | pDev: 2.23%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 24, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 18, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.65/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
473ml can, part of a collaboration with Bench Creek (#1, in fact). where each brewery produces the same recipe (which is apparently an ode to the 'hermit' cookie - say what?) at their own location, and then they are released together. Don't ask me why I'm doing the Ribstone Creek one second.
This beer pours a hazy, medium orange-brick brown colour, with a fistful of puffy, slightly rocky, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some random Runic-esque script lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, metallic cinnamon, further muddled Yuletide spices, a minor earthy yeastiness, stale discount store nuts, spicy mint leaf, a hint of milky mocha, and a very minor leafy and weedy green hop bitterness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a kind of clammy yeastiness, still very mixed and hard to pinpoint seasonal spice, nutty milk chocolate, some ephemeral black licorice, and more rather tame earthy, weedy, and dead grassy noble hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly straightforward in its buffalo stance frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, the spice here not of the interfering sort, as such. It finishes well off-dry, the big malt fencing with the fading gingerbread (ok, 'hermit') spices that never really fully bloomed.
Overall - I've now looked up what the hell a 'hermit' cookie is, and it appears that this offering (as well as Bench Creek's) duly satisfy the flavour associations. I'm sure not going to whip up a batch of them, but only say that I kind of prefer the Yellowhead County version (more overt spice notes), but this one would work in a pinch, as well. Ho ho ho, Alberta craft beer, ho ho ho!
Dec 18, 2016This beer pours a hazy, medium orange-brick brown colour, with a fistful of puffy, slightly rocky, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some random Runic-esque script lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, metallic cinnamon, further muddled Yuletide spices, a minor earthy yeastiness, stale discount store nuts, spicy mint leaf, a hint of milky mocha, and a very minor leafy and weedy green hop bitterness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a kind of clammy yeastiness, still very mixed and hard to pinpoint seasonal spice, nutty milk chocolate, some ephemeral black licorice, and more rather tame earthy, weedy, and dead grassy noble hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly straightforward in its buffalo stance frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, the spice here not of the interfering sort, as such. It finishes well off-dry, the big malt fencing with the fading gingerbread (ok, 'hermit') spices that never really fully bloomed.
Overall - I've now looked up what the hell a 'hermit' cookie is, and it appears that this offering (as well as Bench Creek's) duly satisfy the flavour associations. I'm sure not going to whip up a batch of them, but only say that I kind of prefer the Yellowhead County version (more overt spice notes), but this one would work in a pinch, as well. Ho ho ho, Alberta craft beer, ho ho ho!
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