He Only Wears Vests
Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- From:
- Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 20, 2023
- Added:
- Nov 16, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.63/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the brewery; no canning date. Served slightly chilled.
Pours a foggy brown brick-red colour, producing two fingers of creamy, light beige-coloured head that seeps off within four or five minutes' time. A generous collar of frothy suds sticks around afterwards, encircling a soapy cap; nice lace deposition as you sip away at the glass. It smells of toasted malts and nuts, with hints of toffee, coffee grounds and earthy/dirty hops.
Its flavour is malty and surprisingly rich for the style - hints of cocoa, sponge toffee, toasted bread and hazelnut at the forefront, with mild coffee notes developing by mid-sip. The back end adds some leafy, earthy hop bitterness, with cereal grains and roasted malts dissipating into a residually sweet aftertaste. Medium in body, with assertive carbonation that remains prickly well into the course of the glass; somewhat slick and tongue-coating, reducing its drinkability to an extent.
Final Grade: 3.63, a passable B grade. He Only Wears Vests is darker and a little sweeter than I generally expect from a cream ale: an odd mishmash of styles, really, reminding me at times of an English bitter, a brown ale, and a west coast pale ale. Cream ale doesn't really come to mind, but I won't hold that against it, as 'regular' cream ales are often rather boring. This was nice to try once, and I'd recommend it to malt-forward ale lovers, but it's not something I'd deliberately look for again.
Jan 20, 2023Pours a foggy brown brick-red colour, producing two fingers of creamy, light beige-coloured head that seeps off within four or five minutes' time. A generous collar of frothy suds sticks around afterwards, encircling a soapy cap; nice lace deposition as you sip away at the glass. It smells of toasted malts and nuts, with hints of toffee, coffee grounds and earthy/dirty hops.
Its flavour is malty and surprisingly rich for the style - hints of cocoa, sponge toffee, toasted bread and hazelnut at the forefront, with mild coffee notes developing by mid-sip. The back end adds some leafy, earthy hop bitterness, with cereal grains and roasted malts dissipating into a residually sweet aftertaste. Medium in body, with assertive carbonation that remains prickly well into the course of the glass; somewhat slick and tongue-coating, reducing its drinkability to an extent.
Final Grade: 3.63, a passable B grade. He Only Wears Vests is darker and a little sweeter than I generally expect from a cream ale: an odd mishmash of styles, really, reminding me at times of an English bitter, a brown ale, and a west coast pale ale. Cream ale doesn't really come to mind, but I won't hold that against it, as 'regular' cream ales are often rather boring. This was nice to try once, and I'd recommend it to malt-forward ale lovers, but it's not something I'd deliberately look for again.
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