Freyja's Field
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Braggot
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.22 | pDev: 9.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 01, 2014
- Added:
- Apr 20, 2014
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Scrylol from Canada (AB)
2.68/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
2.68/5 rDev -16.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
Pours a one finger fluffy white head, golden copper color, very clear and can see carbonation rising to the top. Looks decent...
Slight peach and tropical notes on the nose, and a bit of honey and caramel.
Big tangy and sour notes, bit of tropical flavor, very little hop bitterness, some sort of grainy note to it as well.
Nice mouthfeel and decent carbonation.
So it started off right, but the taste... No honey, big sour note, and I can get a hint of booze as well. A nice try though.
May 31, 2014Slight peach and tropical notes on the nose, and a bit of honey and caramel.
Big tangy and sour notes, bit of tropical flavor, very little hop bitterness, some sort of grainy note to it as well.
Nice mouthfeel and decent carbonation.
So it started off right, but the taste... No honey, big sour note, and I can get a hint of booze as well. A nice try though.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a warm amber/copper hue with a finger width of white head.
Smell - Caramel malts, clover honey, light grains.
Taste - Sweet clover honey, light toasted malts and caramel are the main flavour components detected. Light amount of tartness (like one would get from a cranberry).
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall - For my first braggot, there is a good balance of honey and beer characteristics. An unusual style that is difficult to pinpoint which qualities are true to the style.
May 12, 2014Smell - Caramel malts, clover honey, light grains.
Taste - Sweet clover honey, light toasted malts and caramel are the main flavour components detected. Light amount of tartness (like one would get from a cranberry).
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall - For my first braggot, there is a good balance of honey and beer characteristics. An unusual style that is difficult to pinpoint which qualities are true to the style.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.6/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev +11.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, the latest in Big Rock's Alchemist Edition series - this one is apparently a 'mead braggot', in ode to the Norse goddess Freyja, she who represents everything between love and war - that's a lot of hats, girl!
This beer pours a hazy, muddled medium golden amber hue, with one skinny finger of loosely bubbly, and mostly fizzy dirty white head, which blows off in barely more than a mere instant, leaving nothing in the way of lacing anywhere near the vicinity of the glass.
It smells of sweet, kind of warm earthy honey, a certain malt liquor-esque sugary graininess, floral perfume, and weak weedy hops. The taste is more of the same - saccharine, kind of herbal honey, doughy, grainy caramel malt, a rather perfumed floral booziness, some middling, and weirdly spicy yeast, and still hard to discern vegetal, earthy hops.
The carbonation is rather low-key, and absent enough to warrant sending a letter home to its parents, the body just on the lee side of medium weight, and mostly smooth, like honey butter, with a slight flinty edginess the fly in the proverbial ointment here. It finishes still on the sweet side, but in a moderated sense - the muted graininess still a player, and the meek earthy, vegetal hops carry on their ineptitude in the face of that bristling floral booziness.
A decent enough shotgun marriage of beer and mead, the honey's complexity (rock on, southern Alberta apiaries!), outshining the base malt (no big loss) throughout. I'm just a little hard-pressed to avoid comparisons to that bottom shelf denizen, malt liquor - the florals and elevated alcohol making it oh so hard not to - at least that part's mostly in my head, I think.
Apr 20, 2014This beer pours a hazy, muddled medium golden amber hue, with one skinny finger of loosely bubbly, and mostly fizzy dirty white head, which blows off in barely more than a mere instant, leaving nothing in the way of lacing anywhere near the vicinity of the glass.
It smells of sweet, kind of warm earthy honey, a certain malt liquor-esque sugary graininess, floral perfume, and weak weedy hops. The taste is more of the same - saccharine, kind of herbal honey, doughy, grainy caramel malt, a rather perfumed floral booziness, some middling, and weirdly spicy yeast, and still hard to discern vegetal, earthy hops.
The carbonation is rather low-key, and absent enough to warrant sending a letter home to its parents, the body just on the lee side of medium weight, and mostly smooth, like honey butter, with a slight flinty edginess the fly in the proverbial ointment here. It finishes still on the sweet side, but in a moderated sense - the muted graininess still a player, and the meek earthy, vegetal hops carry on their ineptitude in the face of that bristling floral booziness.
A decent enough shotgun marriage of beer and mead, the honey's complexity (rock on, southern Alberta apiaries!), outshining the base malt (no big loss) throughout. I'm just a little hard-pressed to avoid comparisons to that bottom shelf denizen, malt liquor - the florals and elevated alcohol making it oh so hard not to - at least that part's mostly in my head, I think.
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