Long Johns Salted Caramel Ale
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 5.13%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 06, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 22, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by LDuke:
Rated by LDuke from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Jan 27, 2018
3.56/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Jan 27, 2018
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by BPVandenbroek from Canada (AB)
3.23/5 rDev -8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.23/5 rDev -8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Long Johns is a deep, leathery brown ale with ruby highlights. Crystal clear with thin streams of CO2 rising through the glass. The head is dense, cream colored, and has decent retention.
The first thing I smell is caramel supported by grainy, bready aromas of malt. This is supported by damp earth, nuttiness, and a salinity that is gentle, bordering on subdued. Finish is just a hint of peppery European hops.
Sweet caramel up front with nuttiness adding depth and backbone. Gentle salinity, just enough to make its presence known. Bready quality keeps the beer rounded, helping prevent the mouthfeel from becoming dried out. This helps reinforce the sweetness of the caramel up front.
It has the flavors you'd expect from a salted caramel ale. There's caramel, there's a hint of salinity, nuttiness, etc. But they're not pronounced enough to come together in a really cohesive fashion. It kind of feels like individual notes without overall balance or harmony.
May 06, 2021The first thing I smell is caramel supported by grainy, bready aromas of malt. This is supported by damp earth, nuttiness, and a salinity that is gentle, bordering on subdued. Finish is just a hint of peppery European hops.
Sweet caramel up front with nuttiness adding depth and backbone. Gentle salinity, just enough to make its presence known. Bready quality keeps the beer rounded, helping prevent the mouthfeel from becoming dried out. This helps reinforce the sweetness of the caramel up front.
It has the flavors you'd expect from a salted caramel ale. There's caramel, there's a hint of salinity, nuttiness, etc. But they're not pronounced enough to come together in a really cohesive fashion. It kind of feels like individual notes without overall balance or harmony.
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
341ml bottle poured into tulip.
Pours a clear brown-red with half a finger of khaki head that leaves snow-capped mountain lace as it recedes.
Smells of brown sugar, bread crust, drizzled caramel, salted crackers and mild flowery hops.
Tastes of brown bread, grainy caramel malt, more crisp saltiness and soft floral hops.
Feels light and fizzy. Medium-light bodied with peppy carbonation. Finishes off-sweet.
Verdict: Recommended. Tasty and easy to drink.
Jan 21, 2018Pours a clear brown-red with half a finger of khaki head that leaves snow-capped mountain lace as it recedes.
Smells of brown sugar, bread crust, drizzled caramel, salted crackers and mild flowery hops.
Tastes of brown bread, grainy caramel malt, more crisp saltiness and soft floral hops.
Feels light and fizzy. Medium-light bodied with peppy carbonation. Finishes off-sweet.
Verdict: Recommended. Tasty and easy to drink.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
341ml bottle - seems like they've made a salted caramel ale before, but at any rate, this is their new winter seasonal, brewed with amber candi sugar, vanilla, and sea salt.
This beer pours a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves some random exploding sea wave lace around the glass as it slowly but surely sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, saltine soup crackers, a bit of toasted marshmallow, and a very tame earthy and floral (hop, I'm guessing) bitterness. The taste is biscuity and grainy caramel malt, vanilla wafers, saltwater, simple syrup, and more well understated earthy, musty, and leafy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-caressing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess worming its way in once things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the faintly salted caramel thing lingering well into the night.
Overall - this is a simple and enjoyable seasonal effort, with lots of nice sweet flavours. Maybe they could have amped up the ABV a bit, given the impending change in the weather, but I suppose there will be plenty of that elsewhere soon enough.
Oct 23, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves some random exploding sea wave lace around the glass as it slowly but surely sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, saltine soup crackers, a bit of toasted marshmallow, and a very tame earthy and floral (hop, I'm guessing) bitterness. The taste is biscuity and grainy caramel malt, vanilla wafers, saltwater, simple syrup, and more well understated earthy, musty, and leafy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-caressing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess worming its way in once things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the faintly salted caramel thing lingering well into the night.
Overall - this is a simple and enjoyable seasonal effort, with lots of nice sweet flavours. Maybe they could have amped up the ABV a bit, given the impending change in the weather, but I suppose there will be plenty of that elsewhere soon enough.
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