3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20Poured from a growler.
Pours a dark red/brown mahogany with a finger-plus worth of off-white foamy head that leaves fair chunks of lace. Aroma is dry, nutty, toasted grains with a hint of licorice, molasses, and a whiff of alcohol. Flavor is of dark bread, nuts, brown sugar, a hint of stone fruits, and dry grain. Medium-full body with soft palate and a dry, nutty finish. This is about as good as a frumpy brown ale can get without veering well beyond the traditional style guidelines.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Nice brown pour, nice creamy head. Slightly sweet, this is a pretty good all-around oatmeal stout. The only thing missing is the creamy mouth feel. This one has a bit too much carbonation.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of caramel, nut, malt, with only a touch of hops. Fairly sweet - malt heavy. Decent beer though. I love the tap handle.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Tap. Pours dark brown with a medium, fizzy light tan head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (nutty, caramel, toast), light woody hops, light fruity esters and notes of dates and brown sugar. Flavor is malty, lightly bitter and sweet chocolate and dark fruits. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth and a sweet finish.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Brown with fair, creamy, tan head / Nose of roast barley and coffee / Light to medium body, a little watery, with decent finish / Simple flavors of roast barley and dark roast coffee / Well meaning but needs work.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at the brewpub. Pours a lightly hazed brown body with an inch thick, dense and creamy, light tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is somewhat sweet caramels and a bit of a molasses up front with a creamy nuttiness, a light cocoa, and some smooth oats. A touch of bready toast and a bit grainy with a light earth and a hint of dark fruit. Flavor is similar. Nutty caramels, bready toast, molasses, creamy oats, toffee, and a light cocoa. A light grassy hop and a bit earthy throughout to balance the sweetness. Finishes creamy, somewhat grainy, and smooth with a light bitterness that dries a bit before leaving a medium length aftertaste. Lighter body and a moderate carbonation. Overall, a solid beer. A bit thin feeling at times, but pleasantly smooth and creamy while maintaining a nice balance between the sweet, grainy malts and light hopping. Not bad.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft on tap at the brewpub (Chicago, IL). Stopped by to catch up on a few. Pours a deeper mohagany pour, glowing reddish copper edges with some light haze, fairly clear though with a spotty tan head that dies to a loose bubbled ring, small lacing. Aromas are some sweeter brown malts, a touch earthy with a light floral hopping. Some brown sugar, touches of toffee, toast, sweeter oatmeal steel cut malts. Simple, a bit understated. Initial is a medium bodied sweeter brown ale preaching some toast, earthy malts, molasses comes on. Some caramel, toffee, and touches of tea. The toast and dryness hangs into the ending, with floral and grass hops, touches of dry lemon. Sweeter, oatmeal and touches of molasses, brown malts come to light with a good toastiness, dry hops, and a good drinkability I feel. It’s not bad, it’s just sweeter. But it’s an oatmeal brown.. What else is it supposed to be? It’s simple, it works, but is it a beer I love? Not really. An ok sweeter slanted Brown Ale here by Revo, toasty and dry into the finish. Kinda has some shades of Pullman, but not nearly as good. Ok. This was probably a better overall beer than Red Scare, but I’d rather have the Red..
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Draft at Rev. Pours an attractive reddish brown/copper with a sticky head that persists. The nose is nice with nutty notes and toffee, some light grassy hops in the background. The taste is a bit off. It comes across as hollow with a charcoal accrid note that is distracting. After this, there is some toffee and biscuist. It’s a bit too grainy and accrid. Seems sloppy and hastily thrown together. Meh.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On draft for its tapping. Light to dark brown. A creamy thin beige head. A real nutty brown aroma with black patent. Creamy toasted nutty flavors. A slight bitterness that rides the edge is astringent but doesn’t totally cross over. slightly sweet bitter creamy and ashy astringent but good all around. The sweetness gets a but much by the end, like their stouts and porters. 7/3/7/3/14
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Light and mostly clear brown, a light tan head, not much to look at... Nose might be the worst Rev one to date, light and generic a hint of skunk, something I’d expect out of Southern Tier... Taste is equally generic, this Is just bad, light roast but tons of alcohol, very chemical... One of the only Rev beers you should pass on
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