Amy
Platform Beer Co.
- From:
- Platform Beer Co.
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 7.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 11, 2019
- Added:
- Sep 14, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.13/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
Welcome to my (Un?)Happy New Jumping Off of the New Platform Beer Sunday (Week 755)! I have been redding up my house during my CANvalescence from surgery & putting together a number of brewery horizontals in doing so. I had planned, even before its announcement about its sale to A-B/InBev, to drink a buncha beers & a seltzer from Kleveland's Platform Beer Co. for this week's NBS. I was disheartened to hear of the news, especially having read the GI story. I am not one to boycott a beer due to their acquisition by a large corporation, but it did take some of the wind out of my sails.
From the CAN: "Passion Fruit Apple Ale"; "Fruit[:] Fresh Pressed Local Apples[,] Grain[:] Gluten Free Buckwheat[,] Yeast[:] English Cider[,] Adjunct[:] Passion Fruit Fruit [from] Quarry Hill Orchards[,] Plato[:] 13".
This seems to be a Cider/Ale hybrid. Curiouser & curiouser! I Crack!ed open the vent & beCAN a heavy-handed Glug since it was pretty certain to have fruit on its kick & I wanted to ensure that everything was back in suspension. I got a brief finger of fizzy, foamy, rocky, bone-white head for my efforts, but it quickly dissipated into wisps. Color was a slightly-hazy Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7). Nose had a dry apple tartness along with a tropical fruitiness, but I CANnot say for certain that I would have guessed it as passion fruit. Mouthfeel was kinda thin & watery. The taste was really tart & dry, very much of its ingredients, including the buckwheat. 8=* I felt like Eugene on "Preacher"! My lips were pursed tighter than my bunghole. Phew! Once my initial shock wore off, it really tasted of apples with the passion fruit being more delicate in terms of its presence. Finish was bone-dry, gaspingly dry, causing me to reach for my asthma inhaler. Phew. The passion fruit's sweetness became more assertive on the extreme finish, leaving me licking my lips in response. Quite an auspicious start to the day!
Aug 11, 2019From the CAN: "Passion Fruit Apple Ale"; "Fruit[:] Fresh Pressed Local Apples[,] Grain[:] Gluten Free Buckwheat[,] Yeast[:] English Cider[,] Adjunct[:] Passion Fruit Fruit [from] Quarry Hill Orchards[,] Plato[:] 13".
This seems to be a Cider/Ale hybrid. Curiouser & curiouser! I Crack!ed open the vent & beCAN a heavy-handed Glug since it was pretty certain to have fruit on its kick & I wanted to ensure that everything was back in suspension. I got a brief finger of fizzy, foamy, rocky, bone-white head for my efforts, but it quickly dissipated into wisps. Color was a slightly-hazy Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7). Nose had a dry apple tartness along with a tropical fruitiness, but I CANnot say for certain that I would have guessed it as passion fruit. Mouthfeel was kinda thin & watery. The taste was really tart & dry, very much of its ingredients, including the buckwheat. 8=* I felt like Eugene on "Preacher"! My lips were pursed tighter than my bunghole. Phew! Once my initial shock wore off, it really tasted of apples with the passion fruit being more delicate in terms of its presence. Finish was bone-dry, gaspingly dry, causing me to reach for my asthma inhaler. Phew. The passion fruit's sweetness became more assertive on the extreme finish, leaving me licking my lips in response. Quite an auspicious start to the day!
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