Cypher
Bearded Iris Brewing
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- Style:
- Porter - American
Ranked #753 - ABV:
- not listed
- Score:
- 85
Ranked #53,151 - Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 10.48%
- Reviews:
- 4
- Ratings:
- From:
- Bearded Iris Brewing
- Tennessee, United States
- Avail:
- Rotating/Seasonal
- Wants
- 1
- Gots
- 1
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
Notes:
Cypher is a touch enigmatic, but all about the interplay of 2-row, brown, caramel and chocolate malts. This small and dynamic porter expertly crafts encoded notes of toasty toasty baker’s chocolate, brownie crust and warm candied sugar.
Reviews: 4
| Ratings: 10
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Reviews by TerryMills:
TerryMills from Tennessee
3.24/5 rDev -12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
I know its a porter but I think its just a touch watery on the finish and kinda thin bodied ... Very long lasting ever changing flavor profile tho ..
If it weren't for the watery finish I would give this beer A+.
Jan 25, 2019
3.24/5 rDev -12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
I know its a porter but I think its just a touch watery on the finish and kinda thin bodied ... Very long lasting ever changing flavor profile tho ..
If it weren't for the watery finish I would give this beer A+.
Jan 25, 2019
More User Reviews:
Wasatch from Colorado
4.18/5 rDev +12.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Thanks goes out to Buck89 for this brew.
16 oz. Can
Canned On: 10/22/18
ABV: 4.6%
Poured into a Tree House glass a pretty nice dark brown/black color, pretty nice carbonation, with a really nice thick/creamy two-finger tan head, which also leaves a nice medium size oil slick, and some pretty nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is malty, with some pretty nice chocolate/toffee, vanilla, nice roastyness. The taste is pretty nice, malty, with some pretty nice chocolate/toffee notes, nice roasty, nice vanilla note, nice little sweetness. Medium body, ABV is hidden very nicely, nice little dry/bitter finish. Overall, a pretty tasty brew. Something different from BI. Thanks John!
Dec 23, 2018
4.18/5 rDev +12.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Thanks goes out to Buck89 for this brew.
16 oz. Can
Canned On: 10/22/18
ABV: 4.6%
Poured into a Tree House glass a pretty nice dark brown/black color, pretty nice carbonation, with a really nice thick/creamy two-finger tan head, which also leaves a nice medium size oil slick, and some pretty nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is malty, with some pretty nice chocolate/toffee, vanilla, nice roastyness. The taste is pretty nice, malty, with some pretty nice chocolate/toffee notes, nice roasty, nice vanilla note, nice little sweetness. Medium body, ABV is hidden very nicely, nice little dry/bitter finish. Overall, a pretty tasty brew. Something different from BI. Thanks John!
Dec 23, 2018
BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.77/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
You would think that if Bearded Iris decided to tackle a standard American porter that it would be a hazy porter with a juicy hop profile. But it reveals that this style is basically kryptonite to the brewer's hop dominant superpowers.
Pouring a dark brown color and layered with a soft lathery blanket, Cypher follows with a coffee leading scent with cocoa, nuttiness with a sorghum hearty sweet scent. Sweetness glosses over the tongue with a light molasses, horehound, buckwheat honey likeness.
The porter quickly develops a toasty, nearly roasty dryness on the middle palate as the sweetness shows rapid recession. Bittersweet chocolate carries a high cocoa content character along with dark roast coffee, walnut and a gentle sprucy smokiness. Late bitterness pulls from the coffee and cocoa-like flavor and into a hoppy, woodsy, spicy late palate.
Medium bodied and showing remarkable dryness, the beer is surprisingly refreshing despite its robust taste, scent and malty overcasts. A spice of coffee liquor extends into a medium long aftertaste with an arid char substrate.
Dec 10, 2018
3.77/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
You would think that if Bearded Iris decided to tackle a standard American porter that it would be a hazy porter with a juicy hop profile. But it reveals that this style is basically kryptonite to the brewer's hop dominant superpowers.
Pouring a dark brown color and layered with a soft lathery blanket, Cypher follows with a coffee leading scent with cocoa, nuttiness with a sorghum hearty sweet scent. Sweetness glosses over the tongue with a light molasses, horehound, buckwheat honey likeness.
The porter quickly develops a toasty, nearly roasty dryness on the middle palate as the sweetness shows rapid recession. Bittersweet chocolate carries a high cocoa content character along with dark roast coffee, walnut and a gentle sprucy smokiness. Late bitterness pulls from the coffee and cocoa-like flavor and into a hoppy, woodsy, spicy late palate.
Medium bodied and showing remarkable dryness, the beer is surprisingly refreshing despite its robust taste, scent and malty overcasts. A spice of coffee liquor extends into a medium long aftertaste with an arid char substrate.
Dec 10, 2018
atlbravsrno1 from New Hampshire
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nov 11, 2018
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nov 11, 2018
WunderLlama from Massachusetts
3.59/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Canned 10.22.18, opened 11.11.18, poured into a tasting glass
“ they call me the hippopotamus”
Dark cola liquid in appearance, some carbonation, one finger light taupe fizzy crown, some lacings
Taste of roast malts, slight roast bitterness
Medium sudsing in the mouth, light mouthfeel
Aroma of roast malts, coffee
Nice beer
Nov 11, 2018
3.59/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Canned 10.22.18, opened 11.11.18, poured into a tasting glass
“ they call me the hippopotamus”
Dark cola liquid in appearance, some carbonation, one finger light taupe fizzy crown, some lacings
Taste of roast malts, slight roast bitterness
Medium sudsing in the mouth, light mouthfeel
Aroma of roast malts, coffee
Nice beer
Nov 11, 2018
khargro2 from Tennessee
3.52/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nov 24, 2018
3.52/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Nov 24, 2018
OtisCampbell007 from Tennessee
3.75/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Nov 23, 2018
3.75/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Nov 23, 2018
Zazzi82 from Tennessee
3.63/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Dec 15, 2018
3.63/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Dec 15, 2018
BEER88 from Washington
3.85/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Dec 05, 2018
3.85/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Dec 05, 2018
stoopkidd from Tennessee
4.71/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Dec 06, 2018
4.71/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Dec 06, 2018
Cypher from Bearded Iris Brewing
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
10 ratings
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