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Against The Grain Brewery
- From:
- Against The Grain Brewery
- Kentucky, United States
- Style:
- Malt Liquor
- ABV:
- 8.3%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.91 | pDev: 4.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 18, 2014
- Added:
- Mar 15, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by MasterSki from Canada (ON)
2.98/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
2.98/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
On-tap at Hedquarters Beercade. Saw that there was a red malt liquor on the tap list and couldn't pass it up. Served in a snifter.
A - White foam settles to a collar, wisps, and a few specks of lace. Transparent copper body.
S - It's a malt liquor - notes of corn and grain, some chemical aromas, and a bit of fusel alcohol; reasonably well-hidden for the listed 8.3% but gets increasingly boozy as it warms up.
T - The taste is similar, with notes of bread, corn, cereal grains, and an unpleasant chemical and fusel alcohol finish. The last few sips were a struggle, and I think a abandoned an ounce or two when I headed to Local Option.
M - Grainy, dry, medium texture, moderate carbonation, and thankfully not a ton of alcohol burn to it.
D - It's a very authentic take on the style; unfortunately falling on the mass-produced side of the spectrum. I think this needed to be fermented colder, as it's got some serious chemical flavors to it.
May 01, 2013A - White foam settles to a collar, wisps, and a few specks of lace. Transparent copper body.
S - It's a malt liquor - notes of corn and grain, some chemical aromas, and a bit of fusel alcohol; reasonably well-hidden for the listed 8.3% but gets increasingly boozy as it warms up.
T - The taste is similar, with notes of bread, corn, cereal grains, and an unpleasant chemical and fusel alcohol finish. The last few sips were a struggle, and I think a abandoned an ounce or two when I headed to Local Option.
M - Grainy, dry, medium texture, moderate carbonation, and thankfully not a ton of alcohol burn to it.
D - It's a very authentic take on the style; unfortunately falling on the mass-produced side of the spectrum. I think this needed to be fermented colder, as it's got some serious chemical flavors to it.
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.07/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
3.07/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
When all other brewhouse techniques fail to make the "most-metal" beer in existence, let's try blow-torching a sword and then stir the mash with it, hanging by a guitar string. Let's blast hard rock music to the fermenter while the yeast is at work. And while we're at it, let's resurrect the defunct Malt Liquor style of beer.
It's that sort of mindset that spawns a beer with off-gold coloration and a zip of carbonation that releases an initial foamy head that could use some help in the retention and lacing circles. Even the additions of red rye does little to give the beer any substrate.
Grain, mineral, and sulfur hit the nose with a punch of battery acid meets particle board, but with a kiss of cereal sweetness- meant in the most kindest of ways. Any hop character is relegated to stem and hay while the scent of carbonation may be the most pleasant part of the aroma.
The taste of the beer makes the aromas smell like rose pedals. The beer is more grain than malt as the empty taste of fermented table sugar allows only husk, cider, burnt match sticks and stem to survive the soulless middle palate. Finishing gripping with harsh bite and a myriad of plaster and drywall to close the beer past the point of crispness, cleanliness, or refreshment and into the taste of down-right chalk.
As the zymurgy equivalent to hooch, the beer bounces off the tongue like sparkling wine, but without flavor- conjuring memories of Zima. As the beer showcases little malt presence, the emptiness early and late translates to a fast dryning beer with aggressive burn and paste that nearly slams the mouth shut.
...and I mean all that with the very best of intentions, as those who would prefer this beer- those who would prefer to eat their own buggers instead of wiping them on their week-old wife beaters; those who can a afford the aftermarket ground effects and primer but no paint; those who can attend every over-priced rock show in the tri-state area but no dental plan- it's these fine folks that won't read these reviews and chug this beer while singing along to Bawitdiba \m/ \m/
Mar 15, 2013It's that sort of mindset that spawns a beer with off-gold coloration and a zip of carbonation that releases an initial foamy head that could use some help in the retention and lacing circles. Even the additions of red rye does little to give the beer any substrate.
Grain, mineral, and sulfur hit the nose with a punch of battery acid meets particle board, but with a kiss of cereal sweetness- meant in the most kindest of ways. Any hop character is relegated to stem and hay while the scent of carbonation may be the most pleasant part of the aroma.
The taste of the beer makes the aromas smell like rose pedals. The beer is more grain than malt as the empty taste of fermented table sugar allows only husk, cider, burnt match sticks and stem to survive the soulless middle palate. Finishing gripping with harsh bite and a myriad of plaster and drywall to close the beer past the point of crispness, cleanliness, or refreshment and into the taste of down-right chalk.
As the zymurgy equivalent to hooch, the beer bounces off the tongue like sparkling wine, but without flavor- conjuring memories of Zima. As the beer showcases little malt presence, the emptiness early and late translates to a fast dryning beer with aggressive burn and paste that nearly slams the mouth shut.
...and I mean all that with the very best of intentions, as those who would prefer this beer- those who would prefer to eat their own buggers instead of wiping them on their week-old wife beaters; those who can a afford the aftermarket ground effects and primer but no paint; those who can attend every over-priced rock show in the tri-state area but no dental plan- it's these fine folks that won't read these reviews and chug this beer while singing along to Bawitdiba \m/ \m/
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