Garden Statement
Tonewood Brewing - Barrington
- From:
- Tonewood Brewing - Barrington
- New Jersey, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.19 | pDev: 1.43%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 07, 2025
- Added:
- Jun 13, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Malt: Rabbit Hill Malthouse 2-row and pilsner, with a dash of malted wheat
Hopped in the kettle and dry hopped with Crosby Hops estate grown Idaho 7 and Comet.
Hopped in the kettle and dry hopped with Crosby Hops estate grown Idaho 7 and Comet.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by vurt from Oregon
4.13/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
16-ounce can courtesy of @jonphisher. Could not find a date stamp. Poured in a nonic half-pint glass.
Look:
The beer pours clear and golden, with an attractive head of thick white foam. Moderate retention, minimal lacing.
Smell:
The nose is a bit muddled, offering some sweet malt and a blurry combination of berries, sweet pineapple, tangy peach, and some fresh orange peel. There's also a distinctive note of unsweetened iced tea with lemon. Interesting.
Taste:
The flavor starts with moderately sweet malt and fruitiness and then suddenly ***tangerines!*** Not "notes of tangerine" or "a citrus-forward character that leans toward tangerine." No, it's a full-on burst of tangerine juice and a bit of peel on the tail end. Incredible. Finishes with good bitterness, a bit of malt, and a prominent grassy note. The aftertaste features the iced tea with lemon that appeared in the nose.
Feel:
Light-medium body with fine carbonation and a snappy finish to every sip. Moreish with excellent drinkability.
Overall:
While the look and smell were nothing too far out of the ordinary, the flavor was the best kind of surprise. This is a dazzling beer. And I was even more surprised to learn it was brewed with Comet and Idaho 7 hops, two varieties which I thought I didn't enjoy very much. Looks like I was wrong.
Thanks Jon!
Jul 07, 2025Look:
The beer pours clear and golden, with an attractive head of thick white foam. Moderate retention, minimal lacing.
Smell:
The nose is a bit muddled, offering some sweet malt and a blurry combination of berries, sweet pineapple, tangy peach, and some fresh orange peel. There's also a distinctive note of unsweetened iced tea with lemon. Interesting.
Taste:
The flavor starts with moderately sweet malt and fruitiness and then suddenly ***tangerines!*** Not "notes of tangerine" or "a citrus-forward character that leans toward tangerine." No, it's a full-on burst of tangerine juice and a bit of peel on the tail end. Incredible. Finishes with good bitterness, a bit of malt, and a prominent grassy note. The aftertaste features the iced tea with lemon that appeared in the nose.
Feel:
Light-medium body with fine carbonation and a snappy finish to every sip. Moreish with excellent drinkability.
Overall:
While the look and smell were nothing too far out of the ordinary, the flavor was the best kind of surprise. This is a dazzling beer. And I was even more surprised to learn it was brewed with Comet and Idaho 7 hops, two varieties which I thought I didn't enjoy very much. Looks like I was wrong.
Thanks Jon!
Reviewed by jonphisher from New Jersey
4.25/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Pours close to crystal clear, light straw; white, moderately sudsy head, no lacing, average retention.
Bright nose, super fresh refreshing citrus; mostly lemon with some rind presence; herbal laden blue spruce with light hints of modern hop character, nondescript ever so slightly tropical fruit; perhaps a touch of grain malt character.
Taste is as bright and popping as the nose; citrus and rind with some pine character, long lingering prominant grassiness on the finish with that aforementioned fruit retroactively presenting itself in the aftertaste in a nasal sort of way; just enough pale malt to keep it interesting and back up those nice hops.
Mouthfeel is light, crisp and very clean; drinks lighter than 5.6%; its softened just a tad from the wheat but not enough to detract from the clean dry bite; firm and nice lingering bitterness on the finish.
Jun 14, 2025Bright nose, super fresh refreshing citrus; mostly lemon with some rind presence; herbal laden blue spruce with light hints of modern hop character, nondescript ever so slightly tropical fruit; perhaps a touch of grain malt character.
Taste is as bright and popping as the nose; citrus and rind with some pine character, long lingering prominant grassiness on the finish with that aforementioned fruit retroactively presenting itself in the aftertaste in a nasal sort of way; just enough pale malt to keep it interesting and back up those nice hops.
Mouthfeel is light, crisp and very clean; drinks lighter than 5.6%; its softened just a tad from the wheat but not enough to detract from the clean dry bite; firm and nice lingering bitterness on the finish.
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