Echoes of Eternity
Stellwagen Beer Company
- From:
- Stellwagen Beer Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Helles
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.05 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 25, 2024
- Added:
- Mar 23, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Echoes of Eternity is an oak aged Helles Lager, brewed with our friends at Red Hand Brewing.
Unfiltered, and showcasing a crackery malt profile with a moderate zing of noble hop character, this Helles is clean and refreshing. With primary fermentation in stainless, it was then transferred to oak barrels for conditioning and maturation. The barrel aging process contributes layers of grape musk and a softer, rounder mouthfeel with a clean finish.
MALT: Pilsner
HOPS: Hallertau Blanc
Unfiltered, and showcasing a crackery malt profile with a moderate zing of noble hop character, this Helles is clean and refreshing. With primary fermentation in stainless, it was then transferred to oak barrels for conditioning and maturation. The barrel aging process contributes layers of grape musk and a softer, rounder mouthfeel with a clean finish.
MALT: Pilsner
HOPS: Hallertau Blanc
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LeRose from Massachusetts
3.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
A very slightly hazy pale golden color on the pour. White head that transformed from tight bubbles into a rocky mass before falling to a healthy cap with a lot of residue on the glass. It looks watery.
On the nose there is crackery malt and a Noble hop aroma - floral and mildly spicy, touch of lemon. Then there is a left turn - I get a white wine grape must smell that shows up like a slap in the face - very bright and very brief. Theres a mild sulfur note (allowable in the style) and wood.
Im not sure the barrel helped this beer. It starts pretty straightforward with clean crackery malt followed by a decent level of Noble-style hops. Theres a decent bitterness. Then theres this fruity white grape thing going on and a pretty hefty oaky taste - very phenolic, quite astringent, bordering on and maybe achieving the unpleasant. At the end of that some sweetness emerges and the spicy/peppery notes come to the rescue at least a little bit. Gulps go down easier than sips.
Feel is light but its not refreshing. The aftertaste is a mess - things are mixing together in a weird way. Coats the tongue with kind of a glue-like stickiness.
Overall, not an enjoyable beer for me. There are flavors that have just refused to integrate into the whole. The woodiness fron the barrel sticks out, the grape sticks out, and to me the aftertaste is a trainwreck of competing flavor remants vying for victory with a fairly unpleasant mouth feel.
Mar 25, 2024On the nose there is crackery malt and a Noble hop aroma - floral and mildly spicy, touch of lemon. Then there is a left turn - I get a white wine grape must smell that shows up like a slap in the face - very bright and very brief. Theres a mild sulfur note (allowable in the style) and wood.
Im not sure the barrel helped this beer. It starts pretty straightforward with clean crackery malt followed by a decent level of Noble-style hops. Theres a decent bitterness. Then theres this fruity white grape thing going on and a pretty hefty oaky taste - very phenolic, quite astringent, bordering on and maybe achieving the unpleasant. At the end of that some sweetness emerges and the spicy/peppery notes come to the rescue at least a little bit. Gulps go down easier than sips.
Feel is light but its not refreshing. The aftertaste is a mess - things are mixing together in a weird way. Coats the tongue with kind of a glue-like stickiness.
Overall, not an enjoyable beer for me. There are flavors that have just refused to integrate into the whole. The woodiness fron the barrel sticks out, the grape sticks out, and to me the aftertaste is a trainwreck of competing flavor remants vying for victory with a fairly unpleasant mouth feel.
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