Mai Tai Cello
Martin House Brewing Company

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From:
Martin House Brewing Company
 
Texas, United States
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
15%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.55 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 03, 2023
Added:
Mar 03, 2023
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Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky

3.55/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Cocktail meets ale in Martin House's Mai-Tai inspired ale that peaks at fifteen percent alcohol and carries all the fruity, spicy, sweet punch flavors that's expected out of the mixed drink.

Mai Tai Cello hits the nose with a forceful fruity, sweet scent of simple syrups, macerated citrus, tropical and stone fruit, rum and honey. Just as sweet as it sounds, the early palate is honey-sweet with mead-like proportions, laced with simple syrups, light caramel and agave.

Rusty, murky and tawny, the ale's fruitiness dominates the middle palate with pineapple, orange, lemon, mango and peach. All fruit flavors seem reduced, simmered and stewed into a thick syrup before the heat of rum, brandy and honeywine seeps into the late taste.

Finishing cloyingly sweet, syrupy and mimicking the cocktail to nearly pin-point perfection, the beer is simply too difficult to palate as an ale. But as a mixed drink, they can throw in a few ice cubes and an umbrella and the tastebuds will be sent directly to tropical beaches.
Mar 03, 2023