Old Granny Smith, Green Apple Ale
Old Market Pub And Brewery

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Old Market Pub And Brewery
 
Oregon, United States
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
Not listed
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
1.88 | pDev: 47.34%
Reviews:
2
Ratings:
4
Status:
Active
Rated:
Nov 29, 2012
Added:
Apr 30, 2004
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Rated: 1 by darrmitchell from North Carolina

Nov 23, 2012
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Reviewed by Redrover from Wisconsin

2.98/5  rDev +58.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
The bartender offered me a taste, but I have had good experiences with their other beers, so I opted to jump in a get a pint. It was served in a standard pint glass & the beer is a chill hazed dark gold with an off-white head.

It had an aroma of apples and grains. Almost cider like in the nose.

Taste of apples and more apples. The taste is not tart like a granny smith but more like a Macintosh or maybe even bruised apples. This one is kind of hard to put a finger on. If I were blindfolded, I would think this was a hard cider instead of a beer.

The mouth is crisp, but for me drinkability is not great. It is unique and I'm glad I had it, but this would be a once a fall type beer to have at the bonfire. Bottom line, is I should have just went with the sample.
Mar 15, 2010
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Reviewed by RedDiamond from Oregon

2.52/5  rDev +34%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
Old Granny Smith is a light golden ale brewed with the juice of granny smith apples, a bold but challenging concept with an obvious potential for conflicted taste results. It’s tempting to think of this fruited brew as some sort of ale-cider hybrid, but the bright sparkle and dry fruitiness of a cider are clearly absent by design.

Old Granny begins with minimal carbonation and a shy head that leaves infrequent lace. The color is of light clover honey while the aroma gestures towards something dry and tart woven to a whiff of yeast.

But this conceptual anomaly is difficult to warm to. Thin-bodied and sour at first, Old Granny quickly elicits a corrupting invitation to acetaldehydes before tilting to a welcome champagne-like crispness. However, with its taste languishing at the peculiar junction of tart bitterness and fruit pectins, I can’t say that anything worthwhile is achieved in this stylistic crossbreed.
Apr 30, 2004
Old Granny Smith, Green Apple Ale from Old Market Pub And Brewery
Beer rating: 1.88 out of 5 with 4 ratings