Hollow Tree
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 7.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 14, 2017
- Added:
- Jun 14, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle, another brew from Big Rock's Vancouver operation.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium red-brick amber colour, with one measly skinny finger of weakly foamy and mostly just bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, discount store honey, vanilla-flecked cocoa powder, besotted raisins, and some tame floral, herbal, and citrusy hop bitters. The taste is a much bigger (if muddled) citrus rind acerbity, estery florals, gritty and grainy caramel/toffee malt, stale honey (if that could actually happen), a wan indistinct dark orchard fruitiness, and more plain leafy, spicy, and wet piney hoppiness.
The bubbles are adequate in their blandly supportive frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, I suppose, the hops trying to drag this one down here, but failing - big surprise. It finishes trending dry, the malt as surprised as I am right now.
Overall, this is indeed a hoppy, 'PACNW' style amber ale, but it seems that Big Rock (the Calgary concern, I'm guessing) brought the untethered bitterness, without the attendant flavour component of said hops. Not particularly ingratiating, in that I wouldn't really care for another.
Sep 19, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium red-brick amber colour, with one measly skinny finger of weakly foamy and mostly just bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, discount store honey, vanilla-flecked cocoa powder, besotted raisins, and some tame floral, herbal, and citrusy hop bitters. The taste is a much bigger (if muddled) citrus rind acerbity, estery florals, gritty and grainy caramel/toffee malt, stale honey (if that could actually happen), a wan indistinct dark orchard fruitiness, and more plain leafy, spicy, and wet piney hoppiness.
The bubbles are adequate in their blandly supportive frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, I suppose, the hops trying to drag this one down here, but failing - big surprise. It finishes trending dry, the malt as surprised as I am right now.
Overall, this is indeed a hoppy, 'PACNW' style amber ale, but it seems that Big Rock (the Calgary concern, I'm guessing) brought the untethered bitterness, without the attendant flavour component of said hops. Not particularly ingratiating, in that I wouldn't really care for another.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.74/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml bottle poured into tulip 15/9/16
A clear ruby red with a finger of tan foam that falls after a couple sips leaving a couple random patches
S herbal hops, lots of honey, a hint of cocoa, dark cereal, some nutty hard toffee, and a little citrus
T some spicy notes to go with what I smell, some faint spruce adds to the mix, some metallic notes as it warms, not bad but nothing amazing
M medium weight, almost creams up, a little grit, spicy, herbal hops linger
O decent red ale, enough going on to keep you from getting board but not enough going on to really impress
Another step in the right direction for Big Rock but a small step really, nothing to be ashamed of but nothing to write home about.....
Sep 16, 2016A clear ruby red with a finger of tan foam that falls after a couple sips leaving a couple random patches
S herbal hops, lots of honey, a hint of cocoa, dark cereal, some nutty hard toffee, and a little citrus
T some spicy notes to go with what I smell, some faint spruce adds to the mix, some metallic notes as it warms, not bad but nothing amazing
M medium weight, almost creams up, a little grit, spicy, herbal hops linger
O decent red ale, enough going on to keep you from getting board but not enough going on to really impress
Another step in the right direction for Big Rock but a small step really, nothing to be ashamed of but nothing to write home about.....
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