Shotgun Wedding
Half Hitch Brewing Company
- From:
- Half Hitch Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 20.68%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 10, 2019
- Added:
- Aug 30, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.57/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
355ml can - so the name is a play on the old trope of an oopsy pregnancy, and subsequent forced matrimony, in the sense that the brewers have combined the flavours of chocolate and caramel? The jury is still out on that one.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, very weakly foamy, and mostly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent boiling cauldron lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of bittersweet cocoa powder, lightly roasted caramel malt, an indistinct nuttiness, cafe-au-lait, and some weak leafy, earthy, and floral green hoppiness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of free-range char, dry chocolate, coffee, stale cream, oily nuts, and more understated earthy, weedy, and musky floral verdant hops.
The carbonation is quite tame in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of ashiness attempting to spoil the party here. It finishes trending dry, the earthiness starting to really take hold.
Overall - I don't really know what it is, but I can't seem to get into this one. Maybe it's the lack of the expected peppy hops, or the focus on dryness, but I suppose I'm that old hag at the wedding who sneers 'they won't last a month!' Sigh.
Jul 06, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, very weakly foamy, and mostly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent boiling cauldron lace around the glass as it quickly subsides.
It smells of bittersweet cocoa powder, lightly roasted caramel malt, an indistinct nuttiness, cafe-au-lait, and some weak leafy, earthy, and floral green hoppiness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of free-range char, dry chocolate, coffee, stale cream, oily nuts, and more understated earthy, weedy, and musky floral verdant hops.
The carbonation is quite tame in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of ashiness attempting to spoil the party here. It finishes trending dry, the earthiness starting to really take hold.
Overall - I don't really know what it is, but I can't seem to get into this one. Maybe it's the lack of the expected peppy hops, or the focus on dryness, but I suppose I'm that old hag at the wedding who sneers 'they won't last a month!' Sigh.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.8/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a dark chestnut brown of foamy tan head.
Smell - toasted malts, caramel, earthy and leafy hops, nutty aromas, hint of vanilla, and hint of cocoa.
Taste - Toasted malts and caramel upfront. The bitterness from the earthy and leafy hops come through next. The nutty aromas, hint of vanilla and cocoa follow suit to finish the brew off.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. A tad thin considering the style. Finishes with the malts lingering.
Overall - A respectable brown that delivers on the aroma and taste. The mouthfeel was lacking considering the style. Otherwise, a enjoyable brew.
Oct 23, 2016Smell - toasted malts, caramel, earthy and leafy hops, nutty aromas, hint of vanilla, and hint of cocoa.
Taste - Toasted malts and caramel upfront. The bitterness from the earthy and leafy hops come through next. The nutty aromas, hint of vanilla and cocoa follow suit to finish the brew off.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. A tad thin considering the style. Finishes with the malts lingering.
Overall - A respectable brown that delivers on the aroma and taste. The mouthfeel was lacking considering the style. Otherwise, a enjoyable brew.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
3.86/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.86/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can poured into tulip 6/9/16
A clear maroon liquid when held to the light, thumbs width of light brown foam has decent retention managing to leave rings even after falling to a thin film, looks great
S cocoa and a little coffee, dark toffee and hazelnut, some earthy and leafy hops, solid smelling brown
T more focused on earthy notes, still decent but missing something the nose had going for it
M a little thin for the color but bubbles fluff it up, more coffee on the finish then anywhere else
O decent brown ale, started off great and never dipped below good, easy to drink and enough going on to please
Not a bad first attempt from yet another new brewery in my area, a little room for improvement but a respectable first crack
Sep 06, 2016A clear maroon liquid when held to the light, thumbs width of light brown foam has decent retention managing to leave rings even after falling to a thin film, looks great
S cocoa and a little coffee, dark toffee and hazelnut, some earthy and leafy hops, solid smelling brown
T more focused on earthy notes, still decent but missing something the nose had going for it
M a little thin for the color but bubbles fluff it up, more coffee on the finish then anywhere else
O decent brown ale, started off great and never dipped below good, easy to drink and enough going on to please
Not a bad first attempt from yet another new brewery in my area, a little room for improvement but a respectable first crack
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