Wonderful & Strange
Solemn Oath Brewery
- From:
- Solemn Oath Brewery
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.52 | pDev: 11.93%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 17, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 28, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 7
SCORE
83
Good
83
Good
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Reviewed by emerge077 from Illinois
2.85/5 rDev -19%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.85/5 rDev -19%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Canned 12/21/17
So, this beer is absurdly priced at $16.49/4 pk. for a 6.3% IPA, and they use those flimsy clear plastic ring holders. Picking it up off the shelf in the store, a can immediately fell out and hit the floor, denting it. When I got home, all 4 cans were dented. I just had to laugh, imagining a Laverne & Shirley canning line scene at the brewery, fumbling cans all over, dropping them the floor, and packaging them up anyway. Invest in hard plastic can holders, ya cheap bastards.
It pours a clear amber out of the can, and is slightly murky brown dishwater in the glass. What is weird is that the head disappears almost immediately, leaving some random loose soap suds sticking to the glass around a glassy surface.
Smells like candied orange peel and cooked cereal grains.
Tastes similar, vague candied orange peel, sweet grains, overshadowed by a moderate pine resiny bitterness that lingers. Medium bodied with low carbonation, harsh with a sharp resiny character. Halfway through the glass it's nearly flat.
Looks like i'm done with Solemn Oath. This was a crappy, way overpriced beer. Be wise and buy anything else. Cool label art, guess i'm a sucker for being a Twin Peaks fan. The oaths aren't what they seem...
Edit 1/13: Two other cans were somewhat better out of the 4-pk., but YMMV. More carbonated at least.
Jan 12, 2018So, this beer is absurdly priced at $16.49/4 pk. for a 6.3% IPA, and they use those flimsy clear plastic ring holders. Picking it up off the shelf in the store, a can immediately fell out and hit the floor, denting it. When I got home, all 4 cans were dented. I just had to laugh, imagining a Laverne & Shirley canning line scene at the brewery, fumbling cans all over, dropping them the floor, and packaging them up anyway. Invest in hard plastic can holders, ya cheap bastards.
It pours a clear amber out of the can, and is slightly murky brown dishwater in the glass. What is weird is that the head disappears almost immediately, leaving some random loose soap suds sticking to the glass around a glassy surface.
Smells like candied orange peel and cooked cereal grains.
Tastes similar, vague candied orange peel, sweet grains, overshadowed by a moderate pine resiny bitterness that lingers. Medium bodied with low carbonation, harsh with a sharp resiny character. Halfway through the glass it's nearly flat.
Looks like i'm done with Solemn Oath. This was a crappy, way overpriced beer. Be wise and buy anything else. Cool label art, guess i'm a sucker for being a Twin Peaks fan. The oaths aren't what they seem...
Edit 1/13: Two other cans were somewhat better out of the 4-pk., but YMMV. More carbonated at least.
Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
2.5/5 rDev -29%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -29%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Canned 12/21/17; drank 1/7/18 @ the Yarchives.
See-through orange/red appearance.
A violent pour yielded a big white head; frothy lace.
Pine, processed sugar, tart grapefruit & faint urine notes in the nose.
Sticky medium mouthfeel.
Pine, watermelon jolly rancher, faint urine & processed sugar flavors.
This is beyond a misfire of a "New England" style IPA (which they market it as); this shows an active contempt for the style, as if they are trying to destroy it from within. An abomination.
Jan 08, 2018See-through orange/red appearance.
A violent pour yielded a big white head; frothy lace.
Pine, processed sugar, tart grapefruit & faint urine notes in the nose.
Sticky medium mouthfeel.
Pine, watermelon jolly rancher, faint urine & processed sugar flavors.
This is beyond a misfire of a "New England" style IPA (which they market it as); this shows an active contempt for the style, as if they are trying to destroy it from within. An abomination.
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