Old World Brewery Reviews

Jerseyislandbeer	2.7 Old World Dark Knight Porter Old notes from Oct 2014 - A bottle brought back from Phoenix by my wife after visiting friends. Pours a very black colour with next to no head. Smells of chocolate. Tastes of chocolate & coffee. As a Porter, which bills itself as 'a touch of evil' it was very underwhelming. Sunday, August 16, 2020
hopdog	2 Old World 4-Leaf Irish Red Ale Bottle - clearing out long forgotten bottles. Poured a deep amber color with an off white head. Earthy, toasted grains, and just blah. Friday, January 27, 2017
hopdog	1.9 Old World Dark Knight Porter 22oz, back of the shelf bottle - not sure how old this forgotten bottle is, but is is on the older side. Roast, chocolate, and an off putting sourness. Looking at some of the older ratings, I see they note the same sourness, so this must have been bad then and now bad with age. Thursday, August 11, 2016
maxwelldeux	1.4 Old World Dark Knight Porter Bottle. Pours a near-black color with a small tan head on there. Nose seems to have soured a bit, as I get some sour fruit and bourbon notes, but little roasting. Taste is sour, and has a lot of cherry to it as well. Really not working for me at all. Thursday, February 26, 2015
Ratman197	3.4 Old World Dark Knight Porter Bottle poured a clear dark reddish brown with a lasting creamy tan head. Aromas of roasted malt, cocoa and a hint of cola. Palate was light bodied and smooth. Flavors of cocoa, roasted malt and light cola with a smooth lingering cocoa finish. Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Ratman197	3.7 Old World 4-Leaf Irish Red Ale Bottle poured a clear reddish amber with a lasting amber head. Aromas of caramel, fruitiness, toasted malt and light graininess. Palate was light bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of caramel, earthiness, tobacco and light fruitiness with a smooth lingering tobacco finish. Friday, September 12, 2014
ajuan51	0.6 Old World Nitro Blonde I tasted this producer’s 4 leaf Irish last year, it was so bad it took me a year to consider trying something else they make. This was equally bad and disappointing. The head foams over, smells and tastes like soap. Friday, September 5, 2014
mmelissa825	1 Old World 4-Leaf Irish Red Ale Pores from a bottle. Comes across thin with a malty sour note. Aroma has a buttery caramel hint. Very little head and lacing is almost null. Unfortunately not much to like here. Friday, August 15, 2014
DedicatedToFun	3 Old World Arizona Honey Wheat Decent honey wheat, golden pour, small white head, lots of honey in this, very sweet taste and sweet finish. A nice beer for any honey lover. Saturday, April 5, 2014
DedicatedToFun	3 Old World Dark Knight Porter Decent porter, on tap at the los angeles beer festival, coffee, chocolate. No head though. Smells liked licorice and coffee. Moderately strong. Hint of apricot. Saturday, April 5, 2014
mikedR	4.3 Old World Eclipse Black IPA Very nice black IPA. Frothy pour (warning). Good hops, good malt, but what I like here is the slight sweetness, which makes this beer unusual and interesting. Recommended. Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Ferris	2.3 Old World Nitro Blonde Bottle - Sweet grains and some weird skunky vegative stuff. Fizzy clear yellow. This is so bad, I don’t even no how to describe it. Sour apple and other weirdness. Bleh. I am sure this is a bad or infected bottle. Monday, February 24, 2014
Ferris	3 Old World Dark Knight Porter Bottle - Very light roast malts and chocolate. Jet black with a bubbly brown head. Light roast with a molasses. This is over carbonated and under flavored. A pop like dark beer. Monday, February 24, 2014
Patrickctenchi	3 Old World "The Prick" Prickly Pear Wheat Bottle: Cloudy orange-rust...small head. Wheat, pear scent. Taste is wheat, very mild prickly pear. Sweet, slightly bitter fruitiness. A bit acidic. Tasty, though. Wednesday, February 19, 2014
gilesjoseph	3 Old World Dark Knight Porter Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Ibrew2or3	3.6 Old World Eclipse Black IPA This 7.5% rendition pours up at AZ Strong Ale Fest 2014 with a deep mahogany colored body that supports a tan head of foam. The modest aroma offers up dark roasted malts, some thin caramel malts, some mild earthy spicy hops and then a good load of coffee. The taste comes across the palate on the thin side. I get dark roasted malts mixing with pine to spicy to mildly dank hoppiness. To midway it picks up a dark roasted coffee sensation. I’m really enjoying the various hops that are pine and earthy dank onion mixing with coffee. The thin leaning toward watery body kind of distracts from the entire flavor that’s going on here. Monday, February 17, 2014
shrubber85	3.1 Old World "The Prick" Prickly Pear Wheat Bottle (trade with Ibrew2or3). Light lactic prickly pear and wheat malt aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Light sweet-tart prickly pear and wheat malt flavor. Light but nice. Friday, February 14, 2014
acurtis	2 Old World Arizona Honey Wheat Saturday, October 26, 2013
Ibrew2or3	1.8 Old World 4-Leaf Irish Red Ale 12oz bottle pours with a brown body with copper edges and a tan head. The aroma offers up a bit of malts, roasted malts and then cherry tartness. The taste has some cherry and roasted malt astringency that then rolls into a mild sweet malt note. Not so good. Monday, September 23, 2013
Ibrew2or3	2 Old World Arizona Honey Wheat 12oz bottle pours with an opaque gold body that supports a thin white head. The aroma offers up funky soured yeast notes and a bit of white wine fruity tartness. The taste has some malt sweetened lemon tartness, soured yeasty tartness and faint wheat and honey notes off in the background. This is a pretty smooth sour ale that is somewhat refreshing. I see no indication on the bottle’s label that they were going for a sour. Hmm. Monday, September 23, 2013
jmlynchaz	2 Old World Arizona Honey Wheat Tuesday, June 4, 2013
jmlynchaz	2 Old World 4-Leaf Irish Red Ale Tuesday, June 4, 2013
jmlynchaz	3 Old World Eclipse Black IPA Tuesday, June 4, 2013
daknole	2.9 Old World Yard Dog Tart Porter Rare affair beer. Brown pour. Aroma of plums, light tart cherries and a metallic note. Dry and tart on the tongue. Light roast. Earlier Rating: 11/25/2012 Total Score: 2.9 Rare affair beer. Brown pour. Aroma of plums, light tart cherries and a metallic note. Dry and tart on the tongue. Light roast. Wednesday, May 15, 2013
cubs	2.7 Old World Yard Dog Tart Porter Tap @ Old World. Pours a bit hazy, dark brown appearance with a brown head. Vinous, dark fruity, cherry, light chocolate, tart aroma. Tangy, black cherry, red grape, a. It funky, dirty, dark malty flavor. Tastes like a fuck up for sale to me. Not horrible but dirty and seemingly unintentional. Thursday, March 21, 2013
cubs	2.8 Old World Dark Knight Porter Tap @ Old World. Pours a dark brown appearance with a brown head. A bit nutty, chocolate, light coffee aroma. A bit fruity, rich dark chocolate, light caramel, toffee flavor. Best here but not that good. Thursday, March 21, 2013
cubs	1.5 Old World 4-Leaf Irish Red Ale Tap @ Old World. Pours a hay reddish orange appearance with an off white head. Butterscotch, dull caramel malty aroma. Tangy, dull sour, buttery, toffee flavor. Wow, that’s a fuck up. Thursday, March 21, 2013
cubs	2.9 Old World Arizona Honey Wheat Tap @ Old World. Pours a milky, yellow orange appearance with a white head. Slightly tart, orange fruity, Hi-C, sweet, zesty aroma. Juicy, mild honey, orange drink flavor. Tastes like Hi-C. Thursday, March 21, 2013
cubs	2.8 Old World Nitro Blonde Tap @ Old World. Pours a hazy golden, a bit orange appearance with a small white head. Sweet orange blossom, fairly floral, zippy aroma. Tangy tangerine, clementine, lightly tart, sweet malty flavor with a bit of tartness on the finish. A bit strange. Thursday, March 21, 2013
chuktuk44	3.8 Old World Nitro Blonde Don"t let the name fool you, this ia not a nitrogen charged ale. Yet the beer is quite pleasant, low on the hop scale and slightly malty, f...the bud light and the like, a good all around beer. Saturday, February 2, 2013
chuktuk44	4 Old World 4-Leaf Irish Red Ale Light, crisp, lightly malted, right balance between the hops and the malt. A joy to drink. Saturday, February 2, 2013
chuktuk44	4.2 Old World Eclipse Black IPA Similar to the Dark Knight but higher on the malt scale, tasty. Smooth finish with lasting notes of chocolated and roasted nuts, coriander, nice beer. Saturday, February 2, 2013
chuktuk44	3.6 Old World Dark Knight Porter A well balanced porter, nicely roasted character with hints of chocolate and hazelnut, clean finish. Saturday, February 2, 2013
chuktuk44	3.7 Old World Highlander Scotch Ale - Bourbon Barrel A nice malty bourbon finished ale, a little syrupy to start but very nice midway thu the finish, good job! Saturday, February 2, 2013
Ibrew2or3	2.4 Old World Irish Red Ale 12oz bottle pours amber with lasting tan head of foam. The aroma is a little nutty, a little dark spicy bread and then a mild mix of cherry and cherry tartness as well as minerals. The taste moves from a bit of malt and nuttiness to tart cherry notes and minerals. This one isn’t coming together for me. Friday, January 4, 2013
Ibrew2or3	1.7 Old World Nitro Blonde 12oz bottle pours with an effervescent tall dirty white billowing head of foam with a deep gold bubbly body. The mild aroma is a mix of sweet apple juice and tart green apples with a bit of graininess in the background. The taste is prickly with over carbonation where I get a couple of quick sweet apple notes before tart green apple and lime take over. Interesting stuff and a tad on the tart side. Friday, January 4, 2013
Ibrew2or3	3.6 Old World "The Prick" Prickly Pear Wheat 12oz bottle pours slightly murky opaque deep gold to copper with short lived off white head. The aroma offers up some sweetness, mild fruity apple sweetness to dried apricots and then a sense of earthy wheat. The taste has a bit of prickly carbonation, maybe to go along with the name, and it pulls up sweet malts, a vague fruity sweetness and then it moves quickly into a modest fruity to earthy to ‘interesting’ sort of tartness. It seems earthy almost gravel and then light skinned like fruitiness and then some tartness and maybe a lime like quality. Neat stuff. I think it is certainly worth grabbing a bottle. Saturday, December 1, 2012
daknole	3.5 Old World Highlander Scotch Ale - Bourbon Barrel Brownish pour at Rare Affair. Aroma hits with lots of bourbon up fron, some very light peat and lots of caramel. Sweet flavor, some nice barrel notes, caramel, no hops to speak of. Maybe a hint of a tart note creeping in. Sunday, November 25, 2012
Jow	3.7 Old World Dark Knight Porter Had at the huge bar across from Diamondbacks Stadium. Pours jet black with purplish head. Tastes of cola, oak, vanilla, chocolate, bitter coffee, and licorice. Nice carbonation and finish Sunday, September 30, 2012
Sublym	2.6 Old World Dark Knight Porter Ok, heres the deal. I have almost givin up on this brewery several times. The bottled beer is awful, flat, old, ect., ect. They have bottling/carbonation issues for sure. If you drink the beers off of the tap at the brewery the beers are pretty good. I will only drink their beer at the brewery from now on. Friday, August 31, 2012
Ibrew2or3	3.8 Old World Highlander Scotch Ale 12oz bottle pours a deep rosy mahogany with thin tan head. The aroma offers up lots of sweet juicy dark fruity esters like plum juice, blueberry, sugar coated ripe cherries and raisins mixing with a pleasing level of sweet malts and sweet molasses. Behind those notes are murmurs of earthiness and mineral odors. The taste has sweet fairly rich plum juice, cherry juice and earthy notes that seem to come from apple skins and dates. The fruitiness is sweetened by some molasses and malts and gets a little minerally and a touch peppery midway and toward the finish. I’m liking this though. Nice near rich flavors thrown together with some earthy notes. Alright. Sunday, July 1, 2012
Ibrew2or3	3.4 Old World Praying Monk Belgian IPA 12oz bottle pours clear copper and a good attempt at getting a head of foam while pouring failed. The aroma has a large amount of Belgian spicy notes, kind of pepper and yeastiness and moves into sort of earthy sweet malts in the background. Unique aroma. The taste is up front Belgian spicy notes, pepperiness and yeast. Behind those notes are modest levels of spicy hops, a mild black licorice sense and then sweet to earthy maltiness to sweet apple and pear esteriness. Interesting hop pairing for a Belgian yeast strain. The spicy to black licorice combined with the various Belgian spicy notes is . . . interesting. I get lingering mouth coating black licorice that hangs on for a long time. Friday, June 1, 2012
Ratman197	3.1 Old World Nitro Blonde Bomber poured a clear gold with a lasting white head. Aromas of bread, straw, light earthiness and a hint of citrus. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of bread, citrus and light straw with a crisp finish. Saturday, May 5, 2012
Maltajo	1 Old World Nitro Blonde Bomber from Total wine Tucson. I picked up this beer for I wanted to taste what was happening in AZ. Ok. Light golden pour with a thin head. It is almost sourer y and I hate sours but I wont hold that against it. But I did not like this beer at all. to much carbonation and a grassy battery acid taste. good thing it is my 301 rating. I would have hated that cool 300 cartoon to have come up on this beer. Tuesday, March 20, 2012
NachlamSie	3.9 Old World Dark Knight Porter Pint at the brewery. First of all, I find it unreal that this is scored a 20 on this site. I guess they must have real bottling issues. It may have helped that I drank it fresh at the brewery, but I found this to be one of the very best Arizona-brewed beers I tried. It’s a near black beer with a very sturday head. The aroma is rich with enough chocolate and coffee and a good, sharp hop presence for some balance. The palate is not as heavy as some other porters, but solid enough and slick. There are flavors of dark chocolate, pine, coffee and meat. This is an excellent porter. Saturday, March 10, 2012
cbkschubert	3 Old World Eclipse Black IPA Wednesday, February 8, 2012
FlacoAlto	3.1 Old World Eclipse Black IPA Sampled 1702, Tucson; February 2012 The beer arrives from the tap with a 1.5-finger thick, lightly browned, dark tan colored head, that is very creamy textured and leaves a thick layered lacing on the sides of my glass. The beer is simply deep black colored. This smells of dry, amply roasted coffee, hints of burnt plums, and a dark burnt nuttiness. I can’t get any hoppiness in the aroma at all, no matter how hard I smell. The beer has a light carbonation to it and is lighter bodied, which is good for something called IPA. The flavor has a nutty, smooth roast finish, as well as a dry, lightly bitter roast character up front. There are some, light, herbal hops flavors here, some hints of green hop character, and perhaps some fruitiness that might be hop induced, but the hop character is really quite faint. A touch of vegetal black / burnt grain character is noticeable in the flavor and the finish is at times acrid and a bit sharp from a roast / burnt acidity. The roast character just hugely dominates the flavor profile; this is definitely a lot like a really roasted porter. There is perhaps some soft citrus character that peaks through, in fact there might be a fair amount of hop character here (though not at IPA levels) that would be noticeable if the roast character wasn’t so dominant. Surprisingly, not as bad as I was expecting; it has some off flavors (vegetal & acrid), but not nearly as much as I was expecting. The biggest problem is that it has no real hop character to speak of (how is this an IPA again); you really have to dig to get any hop notes at all. Not as fun as I wanted it to be, as I was expecting a complete train-wreck and this doesn’t quite get there. A completely flop as an black IPA, but not a bad porter. Wednesday, February 8, 2012
DMLINAZ	2.1 Old World Dark Knight Porter A 22 ounce bottle pours into a chilled stout glass with a rich, deep black hue but completely flat with no head. (I tried the remainder in a stemmed glass and got the same flat effect.) Aroma is very light, with coffee and malt. The taste is somewhat subdued, with rich coffee underneath, with little flavor up front and slightly more at the back end. There’s a tiny bit of chocolate. The label says there’s "just a touch of evil," but as ports go, this is rather tame and understated. Not bad, but not inspiring or especially either. There’s slightly more aroma and increased chocolate as it warms, but not much. I didn’t get any of the sourness, cherry, or vinegar that I read about in other reviews. I’d think I’d gotten an atypical or old bottle but I bought it at a Whole Foods in Tempe (just outside Phoenix, where it’s brewed) and drank it the same day. Tuesday, December 13, 2011
CanIHave4Beers	2.9 Old World Dark Knight Porter State week month, week 1 Oct 2nd - 8th. State: Arizona. Muchas Gracias to dcschiller for sending me all these AZ beers facilitating my drinking/rating this week! Cheers Dave! The beer pours a deep, dark, almost black color with a medium sized head and some lace. The beer smells very woody, oaky, and vinous. There is a light coffee aroma too. The flavor has some apparent flavor form the dark malts, some coffee and chocolate, but most notably the molasses. All of this however is eclipsed by the dominant sour cherry flavor, a flavor that is so present in this beer that despite the commercial description I almost refuse to believe it is wholly unintentional. At times it gets a tad vinegary in the finish but that character is fairly fleeting. The finish is bitter, almost astringent even. This is one odd beer, but it’s not all-together un-enjoyable. Tuesday, October 4, 2011
beeronmypants	3.1 Old World Dark Knight Porter There is a roasty nose and sweet maltiness. Very little head that diminishes quickly. Very sharp on the tongue, very cherry sour taste and finishing flavor of a roasty malt and bitter hops. After the initial shock of the cherry sourness this beer grew on me. Thanks bcschiller. Tuesday, October 4, 2011