Pike Tandem Double Ale

Brewed by Pike Pub & Brewery
Style: American Strong Ale
Seattle, Washington USA

22 oz bottle, sweet aroma reminiscent of over ripe fruit, pours a very hazy brown with a marginal white head, flavor of coffee and caramel in a mellow combination, very smooth on the palate with good drinkability. Not bad at all.

Caramel brown colored body, little to no head retention. Instant crystal malt nose overwhelms the senses and for an instant makes me nearly gag. Syrupy, oily, thin, disjointed malts seem like an afterthought... in fact the entire beer seems like a mish-mash let’s throw something together... wheat, coriander, candy sugar... they say molasses and tobacco but I only get wet cardboard (and I doubt this beer is heavily oxidized), soggy oat bran bread and an annoying strong amount of crystal-malt gingerbread cake. Vegetal nuts and coffee. Disgusting. Drain pour. This terrible beer is in my 4th %tile.

Mahogany with a one finger light tan head. Good amount of lacings. Aroma is caramel and bready. Taste is caramel malt with a nice earthy bitter hop flavor. Mouthfeel is fine with medium carbonation. A bit of spice in the finish. Overall a decent brown with plenty of punch. A little on the sweet side for multiple beers.

Dark brown in color with a small off-white head. Aroma is of bubble gum, caramel and malt. taste is of brown sugar, toffee and roasted malt.

Pours dark brown with orange highlights, and a very weak head that fades immediately. Aroma of brown sugar, cinnemon, banana, dessert bread. Simple and rather faint. Sweet and fruity taste of banana, caramel, cinnemon, clove and toast. Finishes with toast and dried dark fruit. Okay flavors, but totally empty texture. Watery body and prickly forced carbonation making things uncreamy. Filtering hurts this beer badly I’d say. Meh.

en pike brewery con sici, parte de un sampler de siete birrias. pike’s market es increible, las patas de king crab inmensas. se come bien en seattle. es mas maltosa y con hoppiness. este es mi tipo de birria y seguramente de las mejores de pike.

The smell is malts, fruitys, some roastiness, and caramel. The look is brownish with an ok biege head. The taste is roasty, toffee, fruits, sort of sweet. Sort of a weird beer could not figure what it has trying to be. Weak and flavors did not compliment each other.

Bomber. Hazy dark brown with small head. A sickly, stale, old hop nose I’m really beginning to hate. Taste of hops, pepper, spices, some malts. A bit alcoholic. Body is watery. What is this? A brown ale, a low grade double IPA. For me-a drain pour.