Downrigger
Crafty Trout Brewing Co
- From:
- Crafty Trout Brewing Co
- New Zealand
- Style:
- Imperial Red Ale
- ABV:
- 14.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.27 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 25, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 25, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.27/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
2.27/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
On-draught at the brewery, whose ABV claims I find extremely dubious (they really need to have their instruments checked).
But this is their allegedly 14.6% ABV brewed with both ale and lager yeast and dry hopped with Motueka, Czech Saaz, Galaxy, Centennial and Cascade then lagered for weeks on weeks. All that sounds interesting...
...But this brewery feels like a small family run operation that makes disingenuous claims about their beers and seems to trendchase what other (better) breweries around New Zealand are doing with respect to hop varietals, hopping techniques, etc.
This wastes all those hop varietals, targeting not a hoppy brew with any of the flavours you'd associate with any of those hops save for a disappointingly generic floral flavour, but rather a boozy bourbon-like flavour rife with cloying caramelized malt, sweet toffee redolent pale malt, honeyed sweetbread, golden syrup, and sap.
A bit of a chore to drink, though I'd guess if this brewery were audited this beer would be found to be maybe 11% at most so I'm not even willing to give them leeway on the ostensibly high ABV.
I can't shake the notion they brew this so they can claim it's the strongest beer on tap in the country, not to actually brew a worthwhile or interesting beer.
Not great, not drinkable, syrupy, a waste of its hop varietals, a disingenuous effort borne of marketing lies not of any love.
Low D+ / NOT RECOMMENDED
Feb 25, 2023But this is their allegedly 14.6% ABV brewed with both ale and lager yeast and dry hopped with Motueka, Czech Saaz, Galaxy, Centennial and Cascade then lagered for weeks on weeks. All that sounds interesting...
...But this brewery feels like a small family run operation that makes disingenuous claims about their beers and seems to trendchase what other (better) breweries around New Zealand are doing with respect to hop varietals, hopping techniques, etc.
This wastes all those hop varietals, targeting not a hoppy brew with any of the flavours you'd associate with any of those hops save for a disappointingly generic floral flavour, but rather a boozy bourbon-like flavour rife with cloying caramelized malt, sweet toffee redolent pale malt, honeyed sweetbread, golden syrup, and sap.
A bit of a chore to drink, though I'd guess if this brewery were audited this beer would be found to be maybe 11% at most so I'm not even willing to give them leeway on the ostensibly high ABV.
I can't shake the notion they brew this so they can claim it's the strongest beer on tap in the country, not to actually brew a worthwhile or interesting beer.
Not great, not drinkable, syrupy, a waste of its hop varietals, a disingenuous effort borne of marketing lies not of any love.
Low D+ / NOT RECOMMENDED
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