Perk Ya Later
Trail Point Brewing Company
- From:
- Trail Point Brewing Company
- Michigan, United States
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 7.99%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 12, 2024
- Added:
- Apr 20, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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A bright refreshing blonde ale complemented by an explosion of caramel, butterscotch, and hazelnut coffee.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by russpowell from Arkansas
3.14/5 rDev -19.1%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.14/5 rDev -19.1%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Pours an effervescent & bright gold with a pinky of cream-colored head. Traces of head retention & lacing
S: Vanilla, caramel & coffee, all tail off as this warms, maybe for the better?
T: Follows the nose, pretty dry up front. More of the same as this beer warms up, vanilla cream & dryness with a hint of coffee. Finishes dry, too sweet & with a little coffee flavored candy
MF: Medium body, creamy carbonation, skews too sweet for my liking
Sweetness wrecks this for me; it is a hard sell to get me to like a lighter colored beer with coffee This one also falls short
Aug 12, 2024S: Vanilla, caramel & coffee, all tail off as this warms, maybe for the better?
T: Follows the nose, pretty dry up front. More of the same as this beer warms up, vanilla cream & dryness with a hint of coffee. Finishes dry, too sweet & with a little coffee flavored candy
MF: Medium body, creamy carbonation, skews too sweet for my liking
Sweetness wrecks this for me; it is a hard sell to get me to like a lighter colored beer with coffee This one also falls short
Reviewed by Victory_Sabre1973 from Minnesota
3.78/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From a 16oz can with no date on it.
Fairly clear golden pouring beer. Tons of carbonation bubbles just shooting up to the top of the glass to produce a 2 finger fluffy white head. Great head retention, and when it dissipates, it produces some great looking lacing on the glass.
The aroma has a nice coffee hit to it. There is a buttery biscuit element to the nose. I get some lactose, but I also got a weird grassy hit to my nose. Interesting aroma profile.
The coffee flavor is here, but it's a creamy coffee, and somewhat sweet tasting. I think the malty biscuit also adds to the creamy and sweet taste. These flavors are cut by the grassy element, while it seems weird, I think also works at the same time.
Smooth and creamy feeling. Somewhat light, but it has a low ABV.
Not bad at all, and a very interesting beer.
Apr 07, 2024Fairly clear golden pouring beer. Tons of carbonation bubbles just shooting up to the top of the glass to produce a 2 finger fluffy white head. Great head retention, and when it dissipates, it produces some great looking lacing on the glass.
The aroma has a nice coffee hit to it. There is a buttery biscuit element to the nose. I get some lactose, but I also got a weird grassy hit to my nose. Interesting aroma profile.
The coffee flavor is here, but it's a creamy coffee, and somewhat sweet tasting. I think the malty biscuit also adds to the creamy and sweet taste. These flavors are cut by the grassy element, while it seems weird, I think also works at the same time.
Smooth and creamy feeling. Somewhat light, but it has a low ABV.
Not bad at all, and a very interesting beer.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.89/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.89/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
What a different brew ! (Amazing what those home brewers can invent.)
With a couple of exceptions, it has been work for me to get excited about cream ales. But Trail Point offers up my second most favorite beverage, so these guys may be on to something.
Perk Ya Later Looks good relative to the flat competition, almost an amber tone. Smells are coffee, more coffee and give me more coffee. Tastes surprisingly are not chemical coffee, but genuinely good coffee... with a little hazelnut, which I can tolerate despite being a purist. The mouth has less cleansing bubbles than a good cream ale, but the after-taste is good enough to keep me awake.
Less than three years old and born out of a local home brewing club in the west Grand Rapids metro, Trail Point is a good focal point for the community. And they are passionate about their beer. Some OA Hugs for that.
Nov 18, 2019With a couple of exceptions, it has been work for me to get excited about cream ales. But Trail Point offers up my second most favorite beverage, so these guys may be on to something.
Perk Ya Later Looks good relative to the flat competition, almost an amber tone. Smells are coffee, more coffee and give me more coffee. Tastes surprisingly are not chemical coffee, but genuinely good coffee... with a little hazelnut, which I can tolerate despite being a purist. The mouth has less cleansing bubbles than a good cream ale, but the after-taste is good enough to keep me awake.
Less than three years old and born out of a local home brewing club in the west Grand Rapids metro, Trail Point is a good focal point for the community. And they are passionate about their beer. Some OA Hugs for that.
Reviewed by Creevo from Michigan
3.99/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Tasted at Hudsonville Grille on 7/20/19. Perhaps the most unusual tasting beer I’ve encountered. Aftertaste was coffee and butterscotch candy, virtually no beer or alcohol flavor. A very novel brew and exciting to taste but it may be so unusual, my liver might reject anymore than 1 pint.
Jul 21, 2019
Reviewed by beersampler6 from Michigan
4/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Very surprisingly delicious and refreshing! My first time trying a coffee-based ale. Nice golden color with some nice white fluffy head and a little spotty lingering lacing that tended to fade. Smells of coffee, caramel and grain. Tastes of hazelnut coffee, malt, caramel, toffee and grain - very nice and light and no bitterness at all! Smooth slightly creamy mouthfeel. Decent carbonation but probably could have used just a touch more.
Jul 19, 2018
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.71/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
coffee beers have really been my muse lately, so its no surprise i thought this was tasty, i love coffee in a blonde beer of late as well, i think it adds a lot and doesnt always require the big dark grains to work. this is a really simple and basic cream ale, a little sweet all the way through from what must be a good amount of corn in the mash, but its clean and simple, with a little bit of body to carry it on. the coffee then is the most pronounced element in both the aroma and the flavor, with a good roast and chocolate character, dry and earthy and bitter enough, pretty robustly dosed here, its really all i get in the finish, light caramel notes when combined with the grain sugar, really pleasant any time of day. i wish this had more carbonation, it feels almost flat and as such the whole thing takes on a little bit of an amateur tone, but i still like the flavors a lot, and like how prominent the coffee is here. my first beer from trail point brewing, a cool and somewhat unique glass of beer...
Apr 20, 2018
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