The Snuffler
Sterling Pig Brewery

Dark orange in body with thin white head. Aroma of grass, citrus rind, pine. Tastes of citrus, grass, pine, some breadiness, and booze. Light bodied with medium carb.

 

Pours a slightly hazy with a amber colour with a decent head that provides moderate lacing. The nose is led by tropical fruit notes, with tangerine and grapefruit fruit most notable, and floral undernotes . On the palate, flavours of grapefruit, sweet malts, and a bit tangerine are present.
The finish it’s dry and bitter honouring the style. Nothing out of the extraordinary but not a letdown either, so I might have another pint in the future.

 

Pours a slightly unfiltered golden straw color with a soapy white head that provides moderate lacing. The nose is led by tropical fruit notes, with tangerine and passion fruit most notable, and that’s where the taste lands.

A nice, dry mouthfeel adds to the drinkability. This is a very enjoyable, slightly juicy IPA that I’d love to try again.

Unusually amber IPA. The pour is decidedly darker than your typical juicebomb. Nice off-white head, not much lacing. This beer is aggressively hopped and has a significant citrus bite as well as some underlying malt sweetness. However, not much nuance or sustained finish. Not offensive, not particularly noteworthy.

 

A pull on a tap handle until a clear pint glass was filled starts this. There's not much head, nor glass lacing as it drains. The color of the beer is bright and mostly translucent copper-amber. A mild malt and hop tinged aroma is there, but not poignant. Despite not showing much carbonation, there's plenty of zest to the mouthfeel. The malt-hop combination is very enjoyable. It brings a hoppy, but not particularly bitter taste, with a hint of nutty sweetness. Maybe not the most memorable beer you'll ever have, but it's one pleasant experience.

 

not much here, just a modest crafty taste above a commercial IPA. Drinkable for sure, but not much of an experience.

i had high hopes. Found a fresh six pack at a reasonable price at Wegmans and decided to give it a go. This is a solid beer, but there are better IPAs out there. First off, I agree that the can is ugly and the name is strange. The beer opens with a slight citrus scent, but that was the end of that. I don't taste any citrus. The flavor is malty with slight hop feel. It goes down pretty easy and is smooth. Nothing wrong with it and i am drinking within the first 30 days of can date. Hope to go to Media and have this on tap once we are past this virus lockdown.

 

12 ounce can poured into a tulip glass.

L---Hazy, amber color with a one finger white head. Good retention and nice lacing.

S---Sweet, citrus aroma. Light pine notes. Not hoppy, per se, but all of the notes come from hops.

T---Sweet, delicate flavors of citrus (orange, lemon & grapefruit). Slight pine & floral flavors as well.

F---Medium to light in body. Well carbonated. A little bit juicy.

O---Very good, but not great IPA. I'd pick it up again, for sure. Felt kind of like a light IPA, even though, at 7.0%, it's a full strength one.

Medium golden in color, slight chill haze but this one looks see through with a thinning white head. Citric based nose with some sweetness. Nice flavor but not of the potency I was expecting. Citrus and slight pine with an almost bready finish. Not as sticky as you might expect. I’d call it a creamy feel, they hit the feel pretty well with this beer. Wait unappealing particles all in the bottom of this brew...lowering my score here.

There I was, knee-deep in Take Your Pils With A New Beer, We're Heading to Media, PA This Sunday (Week 752)!, when the Sterling Pig took great umbrage at my suggestion of a pig roast on the beach. He snuffed & snorted & ordered me out of town! 8=O I quickly summoned an Uber & headed 6 miles S to Aston, to see my old buddy, "Big" Bob Barrar of 2SP. I really thought that both of them were located in Media, which goes to show that I am losing the edge that I perhaps never had to begin with. My exCANsion had been at 2SP for a while when the phone rang & the Sterling Pig relayed the message that all was forgiven & that I should return to Media. 8=O I summoned an Uber & went to see what had ChANged his mind. This is what he had for me! 8=O

From the CAN: "India Pale Ale".

I hated to break the nose, I mean, news to him, but I have been a nose/snout-to-tail guy for a long time, dating to my first visit to the Philippines in 1986-'87. I had been eating street food for a while, ever since my (ahem!) girlfriend turned me onto the phenomenon in Barcelona, Spain in 1985. The poverty of the P.I. was such that when we talk of "Waste Not, Want Not", we have no CANcept of the scope! They would start a pig on a spit early in the morning & just let it roast all day. By nightfall, it smelled amazing & they would hitch the barbecue to a jeepney & begin riding it through town. You would simply run oit down like the ice cream truck, they would pull out a machete-like knife & hack off as much as you wanted, I had a reputation as a "crazy-guy", a street fighter, a smoker boxer, one given to public sex & they wanted to test my mettle. First, I got the ears. Yum. Next, the snout. Mmm. Then the tail. Oh boy! Finally, the coup de grace, one NOT to be attempted unless it has cooked ALL day. Head cheese! Yep, brain matter, cooked to a frothy, cheesy CANsistency & served on toast triangles (!). 8=O I hesitated, briefly, but once I saw that it was "One-two-three, all eyes on me", I knew that this was make-or break time for my reputation. I swallowed hard, reached for a slice & Pop!ped it in my mouth! Everybody stepped back, expecting a power spew, but it was REALLY good! When I asked for a seCANd helping, I was made! I will eat such things unbidden, which is why I loved Chef Bourdain until he took his life. He was one of us. Andrew Zimmern, OTOH, is just a show-off, shoving the cleanest examples into his maw in a "Look-at-me!" show-off style. I know that these foods come from dirt poverty & I am not looking to impress or shock. I just like eating like the locals.

On that note, it was time to partake of the Sterling Pig's Snuffler, beginning with a Crack! of the vent. It squealed when I did so, but c'est la guerre! Today is NBS, a take-no-prisoners evolution with no quarter asked & none given. I was none to gentle with my inverted Glug, either. How dare it get me to come all the way back to Media & think that all was forgiven?!? It foamed up mightily to form just under three fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, tawny head with great retention, leaving loads of lacing in its wake. It was like the pig's last gasp since it was a sticky mess to be cleaned up later, probably at the business end of a jackhammer. Color was a gorgeous Golden-Amber, enticing The Gelt Gang of Midas, Croesus & Mammon to join me in this luau for a taste. Nose? Now, it was MY turn to put MY snuffler in & see what was what. It was beautifully sticky, floral, fresh & now my hophead mouth was watering unCANtrollably. Mmm. Mouthfeel was medium-to-full, not quite creamy, but close. The taste was beautifully bitter, not so intense as to be off-putting, but very floral with a caramel undertone of malt. 8=O Had the Pig been hiding this from me all day?!? No wonder he sent me off to Aston - he must have been fearful for his life & with good reason. Finish was semi-dry, just bitter enough to take the edge off on a hot, humid Summer's night without killing my palate. I would like it in my beach-bound cooler, but in judicious quantities. At 7%, it could add up quickly. YMMV.

 

 

Loved the bar but the Snuffler stinks. And I have to make a note of the can....who thought that was a good idea when half of your audience should be female. Do you think any female wants to hold that can?

Modestly hazy IPA. Good flavor with citrus/hops. Not overwhelming and mouthfeel is not a problem-- pretty much a decent beer.