Zest in the Cellar
Ithaca Beer Company
- From:
- Ithaca Beer Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 4.95%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 08, 2020
- Added:
- Jun 08, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.6/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
The final beer from Ithaca on the October 2019 trip. Definitely the most unique one from the trip to the source. Added the beer to the database, this is the first review for it on BA.
Pours black, good color for a session stout, thin, weak, lighter brown color head, 1/5". Really impressive roasted aromas here, what looked slightly questionable transformed to a proud hearty, hefty roast presence.
Taste is the strong point. Interesting juxtaposition of the lemon zest note upside the roasted malt. It works, best of both worlds kind of opposites attract buddy cop movie, "you might vaporize dissidents on Alpha Centuari, but here in this precinct we play it by the book." This has me already looking forward to the next stout that pulls this move. Little hints of smoke to further the complexity I guess. Don't worry about the bitterness, its not problematic or even all that big.
I'd like to see these kinds of stouts get innovative like this one. There's a total niche out there of peeps who want more session strength stouts that aren't Guinness.
Jun 08, 2020Pours black, good color for a session stout, thin, weak, lighter brown color head, 1/5". Really impressive roasted aromas here, what looked slightly questionable transformed to a proud hearty, hefty roast presence.
Taste is the strong point. Interesting juxtaposition of the lemon zest note upside the roasted malt. It works, best of both worlds kind of opposites attract buddy cop movie, "you might vaporize dissidents on Alpha Centuari, but here in this precinct we play it by the book." This has me already looking forward to the next stout that pulls this move. Little hints of smoke to further the complexity I guess. Don't worry about the bitterness, its not problematic or even all that big.
I'd like to see these kinds of stouts get innovative like this one. There's a total niche out there of peeps who want more session strength stouts that aren't Guinness.
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