Winter Landscape (2019)
Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Beacon
- From:
- Industrial Arts Brewing Company - Beacon
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Schwarzbier
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.15 | pDev: 5.78%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 11, 2020
- Added:
- Dec 29, 2019
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
90
Outstanding
90
Outstanding
We took last year’s recipe for Winter Landscape and aged it in our Oak foeders for a toasty, smooth, light-bodied Black Lager that gets its deep, rich color and ruby red undertones from all New York State grown malt. Notes of dark fruit and light kisses of vanilla, cola and nutmeg, make it a perfect beer to get you through the dark nights of winter.
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Reviewed by Jacobier10 from New Jersey
4.14/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.14/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
16 oz can, Pgk: 12/17/19 #2.
Ursula Schneider’s “September Hudson River” painting is featured on the label. 10% of all sales will benefit The Wolf Conservation Center.
Dark brown cola colored with a frothy, light tan head that has big bubbles with varying sizes.
Picking up a lot of raisin and dark fruits in the aroma with a good amount of nutmeg and roasted malt. Coffee-like flavor with a little spice from the hops. A little vinous. Really balanced and flavorful with a unique flavor profile.
Complex, yet smooth in the finish. Medium-full bodied. Industrial Arts is knocking these Landscape series beers out of the park!
Apr 13, 2020Ursula Schneider’s “September Hudson River” painting is featured on the label. 10% of all sales will benefit The Wolf Conservation Center.
Dark brown cola colored with a frothy, light tan head that has big bubbles with varying sizes.
Picking up a lot of raisin and dark fruits in the aroma with a good amount of nutmeg and roasted malt. Coffee-like flavor with a little spice from the hops. A little vinous. Really balanced and flavorful with a unique flavor profile.
Complex, yet smooth in the finish. Medium-full bodied. Industrial Arts is knocking these Landscape series beers out of the park!
Reviewed by AccipiterofBeer from New York
3.99/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
L: 3.25 A lot lighter in coloration than your typical black lager. A dark ruby, like cola. Translucent. Light tan head that lingers.
S: 3.5 smells like a black lager alright, but I don't detect much of anything from the barrels.
T: 4.25. Tastes great. Bready, some vanilla, wintry spices, light coffee, light chocolate.
F: 4.5 Holy cow this feels light. It almost feels like a light adjunct, but with the taste of a craft dark lager.
O: 4. A good black lager. This New Yorker is proud that it is locally sourced.
Jan 01, 2020S: 3.5 smells like a black lager alright, but I don't detect much of anything from the barrels.
T: 4.25. Tastes great. Bready, some vanilla, wintry spices, light coffee, light chocolate.
F: 4.5 Holy cow this feels light. It almost feels like a light adjunct, but with the taste of a craft dark lager.
O: 4. A good black lager. This New Yorker is proud that it is locally sourced.
Reviewed by MacMalt from New Jersey
4.49/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +8.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Canned on 12/17/2019. Poured into an Industrial Arts pint glass. It pours a very dark ruby-cola color with a finger of creamy, light khaki head and thin coating of lacing. The rich, delightful aroma includes roasted malt, leather, tobacco smoke, dark chocolate, brown sugar, caramel, and oaky char. The taste is fantastic: it opens with rich chocolate and roasted malt, along with freshly-brewed coffee, cola, and subtle caramel and black cherry. But these sweet notes are accompanied by a smoky oak flavor that quickly permeates the beer. It then becomes more bitter with tobacco ash and char that nicely balances the initial sweetness. It finishes with a spicy hoppiness. I think it's a little sweeter - with more chocolate and cola- than the 2018 recipe. The mouth feel is silky with a perfect level of carbonation, and the 5.6% ABV is just enough to give it substance but allow for easy drinking. Overall, I didn't think Industrial Arts could improve on the 2018 Winter Landscape but it did. Aging it in the oak foerder was inspired. This is a wonderful winter beer. I'm not sure what IA could do to improve next year's release but I'm confident they will give it their all.
Dec 29, 2019
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