Invisible Force Over Ale
Half Acre Beer Company
- From:
- Half Acre Beer Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.9 | pDev: 7.18%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 12, 2012
- Added:
- Dec 06, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Over Ale with Dark Matter Coffee added to the cask.
Previously known as Caffeinated Over Ale.
Previously known as Caffeinated Over Ale.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MasterSki from Canada (ON)
4.12/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Hand-pump at Fountainhead. Served in a pint glass.
A - Creamy persistent light tan foam that leaves behind plenty of splotchy lacework. Murky dark brown body, with some light orange-brown shades at the edges of the glass.
S - Massive espresso. There's a touch of milk chocolate and nutty malts in the periphery, but this is pretty much all coffee. Thankfully, the coffee is intensely enjoyable.
T - The flavor isn't as coffee dominant, although those flavors are still quite intense. More chocolate malt and fruity ale yeast flavors find their way into the mix before yielding to a palate-bruising espresso bitterness in the finish.
M - Creamy, medium body, but slightly gritty (from the coffee?). No alcohol presence, and a simultaneously sticky and smokey finish - the authentic diner experience.
D - Not an overly subtle beer, but a substantial improvement over regular Over Ale in my book. If they canned this version, I'd buy Over Ale over Daisy Cutter about 10-20% of the time (as opposed to the current rate of 0%). Reminiscent of Coffee Bender in some ways. It's good to see Half Acre doing some cask experiments like these, as the beer-reviewing community provides invaluable (and free) market research.
Dec 06, 2011A - Creamy persistent light tan foam that leaves behind plenty of splotchy lacework. Murky dark brown body, with some light orange-brown shades at the edges of the glass.
S - Massive espresso. There's a touch of milk chocolate and nutty malts in the periphery, but this is pretty much all coffee. Thankfully, the coffee is intensely enjoyable.
T - The flavor isn't as coffee dominant, although those flavors are still quite intense. More chocolate malt and fruity ale yeast flavors find their way into the mix before yielding to a palate-bruising espresso bitterness in the finish.
M - Creamy, medium body, but slightly gritty (from the coffee?). No alcohol presence, and a simultaneously sticky and smokey finish - the authentic diner experience.
D - Not an overly subtle beer, but a substantial improvement over regular Over Ale in my book. If they canned this version, I'd buy Over Ale over Daisy Cutter about 10-20% of the time (as opposed to the current rate of 0%). Reminiscent of Coffee Bender in some ways. It's good to see Half Acre doing some cask experiments like these, as the beer-reviewing community provides invaluable (and free) market research.
Reviewed by GbVDave from Illinois
4.07/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
4.07/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Served on cask at Fountainhead 12/5/2011.
A: Served a deep mahogany with one finger of off white cream on top. Carbonation was suprisingly active for the cask pour.
S: Killer freshly roasted coffee bean aroma. The citrus-y hops of the base beer were pretty noticeable when first poured, but as it warmed, the prevailing aromas were coffee and a bit of dark chocolate.
T: See above. Tangy cherry and coffee gradually took on notes of chocolate, toffee, and caramel.
M: In my opinion, this was served way too cold. It took 'till the very last sips of the glass for the proper temp to be achieved. The cold added bite that took away a little bit from what I expected. This was no fault of the beer, though.
O: I like that they treated Over Ale to a bit of coffee. Not my first choice to do something like this to, but a solid and surprising effort that I'm glad to have been able to try.
Dec 06, 2011A: Served a deep mahogany with one finger of off white cream on top. Carbonation was suprisingly active for the cask pour.
S: Killer freshly roasted coffee bean aroma. The citrus-y hops of the base beer were pretty noticeable when first poured, but as it warmed, the prevailing aromas were coffee and a bit of dark chocolate.
T: See above. Tangy cherry and coffee gradually took on notes of chocolate, toffee, and caramel.
M: In my opinion, this was served way too cold. It took 'till the very last sips of the glass for the proper temp to be achieved. The cold added bite that took away a little bit from what I expected. This was no fault of the beer, though.
O: I like that they treated Over Ale to a bit of coffee. Not my first choice to do something like this to, but a solid and surprising effort that I'm glad to have been able to try.
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