Five Roses: A Rick Astley Joint
Against The Grain Brewery
- From:
- Against The Grain Brewery
- Kentucky, United States
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 78
- Avg:
- 3.29 | pDev: 19.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 7
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 07, 2015
- Added:
- Jan 04, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 7
SCORE
78
Okay
78
Okay
Wild Kolsch aged on red cypress.
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Reviewed by MasterPenguins from North Carolina
1.4/5 rDev -57.4%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 1.75
1.4/5 rDev -57.4%
look: 3 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 1.75
Name alone is what go this one in my glass.
An almost opaque mahogany color in the glass. I found the aroma to be pretty offensive. I smelled very doughy, but it was a bad dough smell. Taste was totally lacking. I got a little bit of tartness upfront, but after that nothing. Extremely watery flavor (or lack there of). Light to medium body on this one.
Funny name, but that is all that this has going for it.
May 23, 2015An almost opaque mahogany color in the glass. I found the aroma to be pretty offensive. I smelled very doughy, but it was a bad dough smell. Taste was totally lacking. I got a little bit of tartness upfront, but after that nothing. Extremely watery flavor (or lack there of). Light to medium body on this one.
Funny name, but that is all that this has going for it.
Rated by olradetbalder from Sweden
2/5 rDev -39.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2/5 rDev -39.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
A really fun name, but the beer is horrid.
Feb 23, 2015
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
3.09/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
3.09/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 3
Well... this brewery looks interesting, and to Rick Roll anyone drinking it is also an interesting concept, but the beers all look meh. So we'll see how much I actually enjoy this one. Thanks to crapturds (reddit) for this one.
A forced heavy pour gets a 1 finger fizzy head that fades pretty quickly though, touches of lacing, crystal clear tan color.
Nose grainy doughy aromas, a doughy kolsch but overly doughy and grainy, a pilsner like straw and toast, a mild fruity lager like note, and faint minerality but not a lager aroma, don't get any red cypress.
Taste is very light, a touch skunky like lagered flavor but not a lager, some bitter tannic flavors, a very light base beer, with toasty pilsner like corn flavor, a poorly made kolsch base, and again no cyrpress except maybe a touch of a piney like tannic oak note. It starts to get almost infected like carbonation and yeasty character, but not infection funk, maybe underattentuated and over carbonated due to bottled yeast, but still clear somehow, weird.
Mouth is med to lighter bod, lots of carb.
Overall quite meh, I think I WAS Rick Rolled into trying this beer that was very bland, poorly made, and if crapturds hadn't sent it to me as an extra, I would have thought they were trolling me with a terrible beer that was approx 100x the cost it should have been. Not only are all the AGtG beers overpriced but they all seem to be way over-hyped as well. So disappointed with them
Nov 08, 2014A forced heavy pour gets a 1 finger fizzy head that fades pretty quickly though, touches of lacing, crystal clear tan color.
Nose grainy doughy aromas, a doughy kolsch but overly doughy and grainy, a pilsner like straw and toast, a mild fruity lager like note, and faint minerality but not a lager aroma, don't get any red cypress.
Taste is very light, a touch skunky like lagered flavor but not a lager, some bitter tannic flavors, a very light base beer, with toasty pilsner like corn flavor, a poorly made kolsch base, and again no cyrpress except maybe a touch of a piney like tannic oak note. It starts to get almost infected like carbonation and yeasty character, but not infection funk, maybe underattentuated and over carbonated due to bottled yeast, but still clear somehow, weird.
Mouth is med to lighter bod, lots of carb.
Overall quite meh, I think I WAS Rick Rolled into trying this beer that was very bland, poorly made, and if crapturds hadn't sent it to me as an extra, I would have thought they were trolling me with a terrible beer that was approx 100x the cost it should have been. Not only are all the AGtG beers overpriced but they all seem to be way over-hyped as well. So disappointed with them
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