Farewell Beer
River Styx Brewing Company
- From:
- River Styx Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 01, 2023
- Added:
- Nov 01, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Pineapple Mai Tai
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Reviewed by Cathartes from Massachusetts
3.99/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Drunk this on the day River Styx officially closes.
16 oz can acclimated to 44°F and poured into a goblet.
Pours cloudy and hazy pale (in saturation) orange, so light (in color) it's functionally a yellow. It's the New England/hazy IPA color that I always call sunshine. Produces a negligible amount of sudsy head, leading to near zero lacing.
Initial aroma is very tart, it's fuzzy with big notes of pineapple that I initially confused for raspberry. There's a floral quality, and maybe hints of peach and pine?
After agitating I get big hits of citrus.
Initial taste before swallowing is sweet maraschino cherry juice, it's also tart, the kind that wears at your enamel. I taste bitter lime rind, too.
After swallowing I first get a short plastic taste, then a bite in the back of the throat from the tartness. Then I notice sweet and tart (more sweet than tart) pineapple (which lasts until the finish) and sweet maraschino cherry, then a short plastic taste returns. This is followed by a delightful almond infusion (real almonds, not extracts, tasted more like raw than toasted), mellow in taste but high in intensity. This sits on the entire tongue and floor of the mouth and lasts into the finish, where it's joined by what tastes like cranberries, if you've ever just eaten a few plain, tart and bitter. This cranberry taste outlasts the almond by a good deal, the tartness hitting to roof of the mouth (harder in the front) and back of the inside of the lips and top of the tongue, the bitterness staying slightly stronger than the tartness. As I get further, the finish develops a slight light and dry grassiness in the front of the roof of the mouth and tip of the tongue.
Feel is not really my favorite. I'd liken it to more viscous some cider. It is smooth and it somehow feels warm even when cold, I know that didn't make any sense but it's something I experienced when drinking it. Not my preferred feel in a beer but I recognize it as good. (I don't dislike it either, just don't love it.)
Overall this is delicious. Very sweet, and a very pleasantly balanced target, which also didn't hurt my enamel. I really love the concentration of pineapple and maraschino cherry, and that almond taste is fabulous. What's super disappointing is that the almond taste was powerful in the first sip, but I only noticed it in a few following sips, and at varying intensities. I don't really know how that works but I can only imagine it's on me.
I would buy it again, but I can't the brewery is closed forever as of today!
Nov 01, 202316 oz can acclimated to 44°F and poured into a goblet.
Pours cloudy and hazy pale (in saturation) orange, so light (in color) it's functionally a yellow. It's the New England/hazy IPA color that I always call sunshine. Produces a negligible amount of sudsy head, leading to near zero lacing.
Initial aroma is very tart, it's fuzzy with big notes of pineapple that I initially confused for raspberry. There's a floral quality, and maybe hints of peach and pine?
After agitating I get big hits of citrus.
Initial taste before swallowing is sweet maraschino cherry juice, it's also tart, the kind that wears at your enamel. I taste bitter lime rind, too.
After swallowing I first get a short plastic taste, then a bite in the back of the throat from the tartness. Then I notice sweet and tart (more sweet than tart) pineapple (which lasts until the finish) and sweet maraschino cherry, then a short plastic taste returns. This is followed by a delightful almond infusion (real almonds, not extracts, tasted more like raw than toasted), mellow in taste but high in intensity. This sits on the entire tongue and floor of the mouth and lasts into the finish, where it's joined by what tastes like cranberries, if you've ever just eaten a few plain, tart and bitter. This cranberry taste outlasts the almond by a good deal, the tartness hitting to roof of the mouth (harder in the front) and back of the inside of the lips and top of the tongue, the bitterness staying slightly stronger than the tartness. As I get further, the finish develops a slight light and dry grassiness in the front of the roof of the mouth and tip of the tongue.
Feel is not really my favorite. I'd liken it to more viscous some cider. It is smooth and it somehow feels warm even when cold, I know that didn't make any sense but it's something I experienced when drinking it. Not my preferred feel in a beer but I recognize it as good. (I don't dislike it either, just don't love it.)
Overall this is delicious. Very sweet, and a very pleasantly balanced target, which also didn't hurt my enamel. I really love the concentration of pineapple and maraschino cherry, and that almond taste is fabulous. What's super disappointing is that the almond taste was powerful in the first sip, but I only noticed it in a few following sips, and at varying intensities. I don't really know how that works but I can only imagine it's on me.
I would buy it again, but I can't the brewery is closed forever as of today!
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